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An antithesis of current best selling fantasy series( a series should have double digit number of books with four digit page numbers), this proves again, quality always trumps quantity. At a measly 182 pages, Le Guin creates a fascinating world and manages to tell a deeply philosophical coming age story of a wizard. I wish I had read it when I was younger, as I could read it again to derive completely different meanings from it. It has its share of magic and dragons, but at its core, its the sto
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This is a very poetically written novel, told like an epic or folktale. Le Guin has some interesting things to say about the dangers of magic and the love of power and glory. It tells the story of a boy in an Archipelago of islands who is recognized for his magical abilities and begins training with a teacher and later a school. In his eagerness to become a great wizard he shows off and unwittingly releases an evil spirit that haunts him. He is a flawed protagonist that tries to redeem himself,
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Not only is A Wizard of Earthsea a book that improves upon revisiting, it is a story that is blissful to listen to out loud (Robert Inglis, the reader in the version available on Audible is superb). After listening to A Wizard of Earthsea (I've read it several times over the years since I was first introduced to it as a pre-teen), I'm not sure that one necessarily receives the full effect of LeGuin's poetical prose when reading silently. It is a style that makes sense for this world where words
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A huge influence on my reading habits. I think I read this at around 13 years old.
A true coming of age story.
A true coming of age story.
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