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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle&lt;/B&gt;

Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged Sparrowhawk -- Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a daring, treacherous journey, accompanied by Enlad's young Prince Arren, to discover the reasons behind this devastating pattern of loss. Together they will sail to the farthest reaches of their world -- even beyond the realm of death -- as they seek to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it. 

With millions of copies sold worldwide, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere, alongside the works of such beloved authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. </default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I picked up this series I never thought I'd be learning valuable life lessons from it. NEVER. But the author touches on some interesting subjects, like life and death and sacrifice. It's not as kid friendly as the first two. But still a well written and thought provoking story. <br/><br/>&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6156921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first read Earthsea, this was probably my least favourite book. Probably because throughout it the world I've started to love is dying and in pain. The pain isn't just the characters, it's the whole world; it's less a personal journey and of significance for the whole of the world. I mean, it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63455852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know Le Guin's written more Earthsea books, but I really enjoy the trilogy -- the way it's constructed.  This last book is a beautiful closing.  The last great act of a great man.  His life nicely progressed with the first book being about his coming into his power and his realization of the respo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53261078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book could have been improved by a map.  The first book had a map, the second didn't but didn't really need one.  During this one I was in desperate need of a map.  I mean I could have looked at the map from the first one, but I had already returned that to the library.  I'm not taking any star...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57920933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The third of the Earthsea series.  This one follows Ged in a quest to find out why magic is disappearing from the &quot;reaches&quot; of Earthsea.  The quest takes him and a young companion to the land of the dead and back.  This was Le Guin's final big statement in the series as originally conceive...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77328274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always, Le Guin delivers what you’d expect, a fantasy book of true literary quality. Unlike many of the emerging fantasy texts throughout the past 20 years or so, especially since the Harry Potter craze, The Earthsea books force the reader to wrestle with many of the same issues that we have to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33521367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the third book of the Earthsea Cycle, Earthsea suffers a potentially disastrous epidemic. People all over the world are having their joy sucked out of them, getting into a semi-vegetative state and dying. After some thorough research, Ged, now Archmage of Earthsea, finds that they are being lured...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32757824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is not at all surprising that Ursula Le Guin's third Earthsea novel &quot;The Farthest Shore&quot; earned a prestigious National Book Award, given the complexity of the book's discussion of life, death, and the balance necessary to sustaining the world. It's also an absolutely ripping yarn to boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24239863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a continuation of the wizard Ged's story, begun in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= A Wizard of Earthsea" title=" A Wizard of Earthsea"> A Wizard of Earthsea</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Tombs of Atuan" title=" The Tombs of Atuan"> The Tombs of Atuan</a>. Ged is now the Archmage on Roke, and he and a young prince named Arren must set out on a quest to uncover the source of a mysterious curse that is spreading across Earthsea. LeGuin continues to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22276887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The third book of Earthsea is, in large part, a return to form. It's initial protagonist, the wizard Ged, reappears at its helm, but the story is told from the perspective of a young prince whose confusion, misgivings, and triumphs form the spine of the narrative. The story revolves around a disease...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13688840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I began another classic children's fantasy series and again was not disappointed! The Earthsea series by Ursula LeGuin begins with A Wizard of Earthsea and continues with The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, The Other Wind, and Tales of Earthsea. I've now finished the entire series.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11123398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an atypical young adult fantasy book.  It has a few fantasy tropes but overall to me it didn't read like fantasy at all.  Way introspective, tons of dialogue, more of a mood piece than a narrative.  Not at all what I was expecting, and yet I really enjoyed it.  I mean, really, it almost feels l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7585108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never finished this book, and yet i rate it with five stars. That is because the moral of this book (the parts that i have read) go real deep. It still makes me think of them once in a while. The fact that I didnt finish it might have something to do with that as well (like un unfinished movie can...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79650307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, this is my favorite of the series. The conversations between Ged and Arren have so much to enlighten and to ring true to the reader. At first I was a little leery of the 'love' that Arren had for Ged, and I hoped it would not turn into something uncomfortable for me, and it did not. It was t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64351772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After <em>The Tombs of Atuan</em>, <em>The Farthest Shore</em> falls a little bit flat.  Le Guin maintains her formal, mythic voice, which I enjoy, as it gives her writing a sense of reverance and quietness.<br/><br/>The problem is, the plot of this one is sort of repetitive and plodding, and things she says about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39017830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good. My favorite so far in the series. Wrestles with the stuff I like (life as journey vs destination, being lost, the road rising to meet you, etc) while tackling bigger ideas about valuing life and death equally. PLUS there was dragons and spells and strange &amp; distant lands, so. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49754264">more...</a>]]></body>
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