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I once found the Earthsea series very exciting, having borrowed the set of four from a friend and devoured them in one sitting during a school break. After a decade (or maybe more), I found the first of the series during a book sale and decided to buy it to start my own collection.
The story itself is much as I remembered; how Ged, the young boy from Gont, full of pride, releases a black shadow into the world, almost losing his power of wizardry in the process and how, as a young wizard, he face ...more
The story itself is much as I remembered; how Ged, the young boy from Gont, full of pride, releases a black shadow into the world, almost losing his power of wizardry in the process and how, as a young wizard, he face ...more
Long before there was Hogwarts, there was the Wizard's School on the Island of Roke, in The Archipelago. Ms. Le Guin's writing is so simple, and at the same time the ideas are so complex. I don't know how she does it. I started this series in the middle and then came back to the beginning. This book has something for every lover of fantasy: cute, cuddly pets, dragons, illusion, real magic, life lessons, coming to terms with one's deepest fear, it's all here.
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