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Замечательные приключения начинаются! Обаятельный парнишка Макс превращается в Тайного сыщика сэра Макса, чудеса происходят на каждом шагу, тайны, магия, Магистры…

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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Max Frei

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Макс Фрай

"Max Frei" is a pen-name of Svetlana Martynchik. She has created the well-known Echo series. Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik is a Russian writer and artist.

Martynchik studied at the philological department of Odessa State University, but dropped out without graduating. Martynchik lived in Moscow since 1993 and lives in Vilnius since 2004.

For more details see Wikipedia: Svetlana Martynchik

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1 review
June 29, 2011
Babazyaka Не понимаю почему многим так нравится эта серия. Все постоянно что то жрут. Даже первую книгу не смог прочитать. Нудно. Лучше еще раз вернуться к Мифам Асприна:)
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385 reviews15 followers
January 19, 2021
Это очень скучно и по-дилетантски.
Набор слов шизофреника.
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28 reviews
May 12, 2021
Tried to start reading several times. When I took the books by Frei, I was hoping for a fun fantasy reading judging by its high ratings. After several attempts I finally gave up on Max Frei for being boring. I couldn't finish this one. It's probbaly because the humor of the book doesn't seem humorous at all to me. As for the depicted world, it looks quite schematic and uninteresting.
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36 reviews
September 12, 2025
В своё время это прошло мимо меня, хотя и было хитом. Сейчас вообще не зашло. Как-то приторно и скучно. Желания читать дальше не возникло.
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2 reviews2 followers
May 16, 2015
Liked this book in my childhood, because this is about a magic world (for me). This was one of the books that quickly moved me out from this world for loooong hours.
It is about what I always wanted to happen to me. :)

Ridiculous thing about it is that one my friend used to tell me that this book is not about something real, that the scenario described in it is absolutely irreal.
So I was astonished when someday thing like this happened to me and now I have almost everything that the protagonist of this book has. :) Great feel!

So I recommend this book to everybody who things that in our lives always is a room for miracles.
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217 reviews
May 31, 2016
Самая волшебная книга, прочитанная мною. Ехо - город, в который хочется попасть даже сейчас, после, наверное, 10 прочтения. Идеально подобранные коллеги, которых так не хватает в реальности, с их маленькими слабостями и большими сердцами и достоинствами. Жизнь сэра Макса, которую хочется прожить как свою: приключения, опасности, подвиги и тд. Могущество, в конце концов, которым обладаешь, и которое делает тебя значимым, достойным происходящего с тобой, что ли. И через всю книгу красной линией нежность и печаль о несбывшемся.....
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216 reviews147 followers
January 29, 2012
Medium-length stories that combine fantasy and detective motifs: a man from earth relocates to a place called Echo that he found in his dreams. Enjoyable in small doses on tired nights, thanks to lots of humor and fun aspects of life in another place... but I think I'd go on quirkiness overload if I read more than a couple stories at a time.

(There's more on my blog here.)
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69 reviews4 followers
December 2, 2013
Nice, interesting idea. But can be better)
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