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  <title><![CDATA[The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Fantasy or Harry Potter fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These are three beautifully written novels that make up a trilogy that is both highly influential in the modern fantasy trilogy and also highly unlike any trilogy out there.  <br/><br/>The first book &quot;A Wizard of Earthsea&quot; follows the story of a young boy named Ged (he has a bunch of oth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7388695">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em><br/>Ged, tout jeune apprend les rudiments avec sa tante, dans un petit village de Gont. A la suite de son terrible exploit: créer un brouillard pour repousser les assaillants, il se retrouve sous la tutelle d'Ogion, grand sorcier. Ce dernier décide de l'envoyer à l'école de magie de Roke où i...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63565204">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 14 21:06:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 14 21:08:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poetic and beautifully imaginative tale. Leguin writes simply and elegantly. She does not waste anyone's time with fluff, yet somehow manages to achieve a depth to her characters and her stories. I wish I could figure out how she does that]]></body>
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    <review id="44575804">
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    <body><![CDATA[[grabbed from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R9PKHGW2QMY2O/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm">Amazon.com</a>][return:][return:]Ursula LeGuin is as talented a writer as one could hope to find. She has a deft hand at science fiction and fantasy, but she also layers her work with adult themes of self-discovery and personal evolution, relationship to self and to others, isolation vs. c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44575804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48699171">
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 09 10:00:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 16 13:44:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think there is a great subtlety to this three-book compilation, but I'm not sure that I'm too subtle a person!  I liked her ideas of magic, but I really didn't like Ged.  I appreciated his silence and his purpose. . . but I just really didn't &quot;get&quot; Ged.  <br/><br/>I enjoyed the &quot;T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48699171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37932273">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 24 06:43:06 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Never really followed Le Guin's fantasy works previously, having just joined the SFBC, I picked up this omnibus edition. The writing was wonderful; their was a sense that each word was picked with care; not too much detail, not too little, just enough to evoke the tale she wanted to tell. In the cur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37932273">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It started off really slow, and the main character was kind of a jerk. But then he became awesome!!!! And not a jerk. The first book is about how it all begins (starts off as a goatherd, becomes the most famous wizard kind of a thing). Good transformation story.<br/><br/>Second book has him not as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52065623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49025887">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read A Wizard of Earthsea. I'd heard a lot of recommendations for this, but I was disappointed. It seemed like Le Guin was trying too hard to make &quot;fantasy&quot; language, and focusing not enough on character or story. The whole &quot;plot&quot; ended up concluded within 2 pages, and it was poi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49025887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28133684">
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    <name><![CDATA[Brian Hodges]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 23 21:51:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 23 22:13:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wizard fantasy is way deeper and more evocative than anything JK Rowling ever came out with.  The first book, &quot;A Wizard of Earthsea&quot; follows the schooling of Ged, a wizard apprentice who is so young and impulsive and eager to show off his skills that he unleashes a &quot;shadow&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28133684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19782054">
    <user id="83144">
    <name><![CDATA[El]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first of the trilogy, <em>A Wizard of Earthsea</em>, introduces readers to Ged (aka Sparrowhawk) and follows him to wizard school where he learns all of the words and spells that make him one of the most powerful wizards in all of Earthsea.  In <em>The Tombs of Atuan</em>, then second book, Tenar is taken from he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19782054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4841105">
    <user id="133549">
    <name><![CDATA[Tyler]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 20 19:25:31 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Earthsea Trilogy takes a place next to Lord of the Rings as one of the most influential and original fantasy series written.   I have read it many, many times, and can't recommend it highly enough.<br/><br/>The world of Earthsea is quite original (although it has since had many imitators), and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4841105">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68693864">
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    <name><![CDATA[Marco]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The entire series (there are actually 4 books), read together, tell a great tale of a boy with powerful magic who makes a mistake early on and then makes amends and grows up to become the most powerful mage in Earthsea.  Along the way he meets (and rescues) a young lady who unknowingly serves the da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68693864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48397803">
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    <name><![CDATA[Barbara]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that it is possible to overdo ya fantasy books.  And that trying to read Eragon just after finishing the Farthest Shore is not a good idea. <br/><br/>I got them as a christmas gift years ago and finally read them.  I liked them a good deal, though my favorite is Tombs of Atuan. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48397803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17314604">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 1983</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not normally into the Dungeons and Dragons world of fantasy novels but an exception has to be made for this book which is one of my favourite ever books. The storyline is ever moving and it is so easy to get hooked into it.<br/><br/>Story is basically about the life of a wizard from innocent bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17314604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56164044">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stringy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 15 07:07:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I originally read these a few years ago and thought they were ok. But on this re-read I appreciated the terse descriptions and quiet mystery much more - they seemed more haunting than I'd remembered. Will have to follow up with the rest of the Earthsea books.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, it's got yet a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56164044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started re-reading the series when I was home sick with mono.  The first three books are quick fun reads (especially The Tombs of Atuan's strong character development and The Farthest Shore's 70's psychadelic craziness), but basically they were written in Le Guin's prefeminist days, and it shows. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15871829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is rare that all three books in a trilogy, where each part can stand alone, holds together as well as these three do.  I enjoyed the reading of these books very much and wonder why it took me so long to get around to it.  For more thoughts:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/10/earthsea-trilogy-by-ursula-k-le-guin.html" title="http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/10/earthsea-trilogy-by-ursula-k-le-guin.html">http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/10/earths...</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75102948">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fantastic trilogy that far supercedes Harry Potter in terms of depth. The protagonist grapples with identity, the concept of &quot;power&quot;, his deepest fears, and an unsavory past coupled with an uncertain future . . . good stuff! Don't watch the made-for-TV movie . . . you will be dis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38136493">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 13 19:25:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a child I was introduced to Narnia, Oz, Middle Earth...but Earthsea was the most compelling of these worlds;seeming more foreign somehow than the others, but the protaganist more human.Ged is still my favorite wizard, including all of his flaws.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 09:42:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 09:43:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This fantasy series is one of those I read and reread every few years.  Perhaps too simple for some, but it is one of those that makes me feel nostalgic for my early years when I was discovering good writing for the first time in my life.]]></body>
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