Ah, I'm in a reading slump. The Magus is the fourth book, almost in a row I gave up on. I almost made it halfway, but I just lost interest. Maybe I need to read some shorter books for a while and more genre (i.e. fantasy/scifi) to get my groove back.
With Star Trek's 50th anniversary, I decided to give at least one of the novels a go. I was looking through Goodreads and the general consensus is that Spock's World by Diane Duane is one of the best, so let's see how that goes