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Finally got this off my conscience. I do not like the awkward sentences that are meant to sound mythic or ancient. I do like a whole bunch of other groundbreaking stuff, like the description in the beginning of the white-skinned, yellow-haired barbarians, and Sparrowhawk/Ged being red-black, and Vetch being brown-black. I like the rules of how the different kinds of magic work.
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Finally got this off my conscience. I do not like the awkward sentences that are meant to sound mythic or ancient. I do like a whole bunch of other groundbreaking stuff, like the description in the beginning of the white-skinned, yellow-haired barbarians, and Sparrowhawk/Ged being red-black, and Vetch being brown-black. I like the rules of how the different kinds of magic work.
I either do not understand, or like, that Ged is a slow learne ...more
Ged, a young wizard, like most young people wants to get to the exciting stuff as soon as possible, but in his haste unleashes a terrible evil upon the world that now hunts him down.
I have been meaning to read these books since I was a teenager. I'm now in my thirties. Needless to say my to-read ile always has and always will be longer than I can list ;p
There is so much being said in this tale that it feels like a fable, or maybe an Arthurian legend. Le Guin has a beautiful cadence in her words ...more
I have been meaning to read these books since I was a teenager. I'm now in my thirties. Needless to say my to-read ile always has and always will be longer than I can list ;p
There is so much being said in this tale that it feels like a fable, or maybe an Arthurian legend. Le Guin has a beautiful cadence in her words ...more
This first book of the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin was a great read. I am not normally a fan of Fantasy that involve world-building. I loved this book though Ged is a very compelling character. It's a compelling story, told in an amazingly short form. Maybe because this book was published in 1968, and books have definitely gotten longer in recent years. It seems amazing that Le Guin was able to build this whole world and tell Ged's story in less than 200 pages.
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Not a smooth read. I read to relax and this was a bit of a mess. Didn’t really enjoy, would not read again, will not continue series (even though it sounds like it changes drastically, plenty of other books to read without going through that with my hackles up waiting to hate it).
Lexile 1150L
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9.0
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9.0
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