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Summary: Incredible Book
Review: When i first saw this book on a sale discount, i thought well another one of those Magic books, after tolkien who cares about this.
Then i started to read it and found myself wondering who will have this mind to write this wonderful story?.
Is a story not only of wizards and powers, is also about discipline and how everybody feels the greatest person on the world.
The world if wonderful, the characters icredible, and the whole story grasping. I was sorry when i reached the end because i have been taken to another dimension.
I will recomend this book for anyone who wants to feel free of your world
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Summary: We really liked it
Review: Joanna (niece) and Liz (aunt) - we have both read this book. Liz for the first time years ago and Joanna in 1997. We both think this book (and the following three) made the characters seem real and the magic was neat. Liz has all UKL books but this is the best. People of all ages will like this book
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Summary: Interesting Book
Review: It is a good book for you to read if you are into fantasies. The whole book is quite interesting, but there are some ancient words you'll have to know
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Summary: An Excellent Book for Any Lover of Fantasy
Review: My finding of this book occured much like Clinton Rickard's finding, but just a little different. It was assigned for my summer reading entering into the tenth grade (although I believe that it is suitable for someone entering eighth or ninth grade and anything higher than that). Guessing that it would be the harder of the two books assigned, I decided to read it first and give myself a longer time to read it. Expecting to take a few days to get through it, I planned my schedule around reading it (taking an hour out of my day is not easy). Surprisingly enough, I ended up starting *and* finishing it on the first night. A story dealing with sorcerers, wizards, mages, (clerics?), dragons, and every other amazing fantasy-style character you could imagine. Of course, you say, I could write a story that involves those characters. True. Yet when you would go to compare it to this ... it would (blatantly) suck. I find this story so involving ... so gripping (especially during the times of high suspense, when the equilibrium between the powers of the light and of the dark is shifted, and "the shadow" is inadvertently allowed into the world) that it would be virtually impossible to rip yourself back into the real world before finishing it without pondering deeply why the story took its certain course, or why the characters did what they did. (I know that sounds a bit generic, but this story is *definitely* *not* *generic*.) One of those "must-reads", I would say
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Summary: What an interesting book!
Review: This was a lovely book. It is quite thoughtful, creative, dramatic, and even kind of bonechilling in some parts (such as when the boy first discovers the spell for calling up the dead). Le Guin also did well at creating a mood for this darkish story, which takes place in a fascinating land known as the Archipelago. My only complaint is the lack of strong female charachters, and the confusing balance of magic. However, this only slighty takes away from the story. My favorite part in the book was probably when the boy was being taught at Roke.
Followed by three sequals
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Summary: Who compared this to "The Lord of the Rings"?
Review: After falling in love with Middle-Earth in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", I heard that Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea books were of the same caliber. Nothing could be further from the truth. This book was full of sullen, unsympathetic characters and the silliest dragons in the history of fantasy literature- dragons that you can defeat merely by calling their name. Moreover the book is obsessively concerned with the balance of magic- an interesting concept, but one which the author handles badly. The magic of Tolkien's Middle-earth is inherent in the characters- it's not what they do, but what they are. Compared to this the conflicting petty spells and name-calling in Earthsea are pretty disappointing
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Summary: A tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows.
Review: This Wonderful book 'must' be read by all.
If anyone thinks they are getting dull and/or boring, then they should read this book.
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Summary: I don't know how I got hooked on A Wizard of Earthsea
Review: Over Winter/Christmas break from school, my English teacher
assigned my class a major report: Pick an author from a list he gave us, read atleast three of the author's works,
find reviews about this author, then write a report about
how the author is viewed. So I start to think,"Oh brother!
A report! On vacation! I''m supposed to have FUN, NOT do
WORK!"
My mom took me to the library and I asked the librarian where I should look. I handed her my list of authors
and she skimmed down it. She said that Ursula Le Guin
might be good. Since these were supposed to be short story
authors, I was not planning on doing that much reading.
Then she handed me two of her books. They were short stories. Good! Then she handed me "A Wizard of Earthsea".
"A whole book!! I have to read a whole book!", I thought.
Do not get me wrong. I like to read, but my idea of
vacation is not spending it reading. So when I got home
I read the two short stories and put the other book aside.
The next day I was planning to go out, but my mom said I could
not until I read atleat two chapters in "A Wizard of
Earthsea". So I started reading. But, to my amazement,
I got hooked on it! It was SO GOOD! After I finished it
(Which has about 3 hours), I asked my mom to take me to the
library to get the sequel, but they did not have it. So
now I'm looking for the rest of the series.
I definately would recomend this book to anybody who loves
fantasy, not just children. I don't think anybody should
miss out on the magical story that Le Guin wrote, which is now on the top of my "favorite book" list.
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Summary: a Magical Book
Review: AWizard of Earthsea is a captivating book,
it tells the story of a young village boy that
learns the old world magic. He discovers that he
has the power for tremendous good and evil.
This book combines magic, dragons, ancient spells, darkness and light. A magical adventure
with the Wizard of Earthse
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Summary: Where Are The Negative Stars When You Need Them?
Review: I give this book five stars. No, wait, I mean negative five. I cried when I read this book. Seriously, I ran and sobbed in the closet for about half an hour; that's how much I hated it. There are much, much better fantasy stories out there. I'm very strict with myself about the integrity of my reading- that is, I don't allow myself to skip anything or skim over boring parts. Unfortunately, I realized after I was finished with AWoE, the whole novel was one enormous boring part and I should have flipped through the pages and called it a day. The author has somehow managed to turn an archetypal journey into an over-reaching, unsubtle literary disaster.
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