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Summary: Words to spark an imagination
Review: Le Guin, the famed sci-fi writter, really did a wonder here. This book, this amazing piece of literature, has the depth, color, and artistic flare that all readers should be looking for. Its plot, its characters, its very idea foundation is a wonderful and well written one.You find yourself locked in the world, the world of Eathsea. A world of magic, but one like no other ever described. This is not the fanciful tale of an evil mage and a gallant knight, or a fair maiden and an old king. This book is about a young man, struggling to reach his goals and sail to his own farthest shores. It is the tale of his hardships and struggles and of his realizations and pains. For this is no prince charming, but Ged, the wizard from Gont. And through this book, you will feel and learn and live along side him. This truely is a must for all fantasy readers. Very few books even come close to the beauty of this writting. I highly recomend it.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: The EarthSea Trilogy is a GREAT series of books!! If all fanatasy books were this good, life would be great! -Brandon
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Summary: PC Hodegell, PE Zimmer, D Gemmell are her only peers.
Review: An almost unparalleled piece of fanatsy writing, beautifully rendered world in so few pages, many of todays supposedly great fantasy writers could take a few hints from Ursula. Her mythos is complete, the way magic works logical and the duality of that exsists in all life and death brilliantly written. The book is about Ged and his rite of passage from boy to powerful wizard. A journey of one facing his fears, of accepting them as part of who is....literally! A great read for young peaple and adults alike. Enjoy a truly magical piece of litreature.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: With a limitation of five stars maximum, I cannot possibly give this story all the credit it diserves. I am a dedicated fanatic of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" which I devoured nearly four years ago in third grade. So far, I've seen nothing but the Harry Potter series come even close to those three marvelous books and "The Hobbit." I was very pleasantly surprised upon readin this book. LeGuin starts by introducing the child Duny, called Sparrowhawk, who has some very remarkable abilities. When Duny is given his true name, Ged, by Ogion the mage, he becomes his prentice, and is eager to learn the ways of magic. Eventually, he comes to Roke, and becomes a student in a school for magic. He befriends a kindly boy called Vetch, but also makes a great enemy -- Jasper. Ged, proud and thirsting for power, attempts to outdo his rival by attempting a very dangerous piece of magic...raising a spirit from the dead. In doing so, he accidentally unleashes a deadly and mysterious shadow into the world. Although he is nearly killed during his first encounter with it, Ged knows it is up to him alone to destroy the unnamed evil he has leashed upon the world. This first book of Earthsea is about Ged's passage from boyhood into adulthood, his mastery of magic, and the journey he undertook to restore Equilibrium to Earthsea.
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Summary: Renewed to reading
Review: It's been months since I've read a book. I'm a college student who has been juggling school, full-time work, a frequently updated web site, and attempts at having a life--and with sleep, that doesn't allow great amounts of time for pleasure reading. This book, however, has taught me that this time, somehow, must be set aside. This Earthsea that Ursula Le Guin has created easily kept me glued to the book for hours on end and prompted me, within fifteen minutes after finishing, to order the second in the Earthsea series. Fans of Tolkien, tales of the middle ages, or the magic of the power of everything, this is a book for you.
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Summary: 5 stars aren't enough
Review: I read the series for the first time when I was about 12, and have gravitated towards it every couple of years since then to re-read. I just can't help myself. This isn't typical kids' stuff, it's brilliant writing. I recently started to re-read a Stephen Donaldson book that I remember liking as a teenager 15 years ago and was amazed at how poor the writing was--bad grammar, convoluted sentences and inept metaphors. I immediately reached for A Wizard of Earthsea, fearing I'd similarly misremembered its greatness--I had not. It was as great as ever. I lost sleep three nights running and now I have to wait another couple of years!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I started reading this 2 years ago and got bored. But I needed a good book to write a report on 2 months ago and found this book in my room. I read the first chapter and right off the bat I coludn't put the book down. The way the book was written, what words LeGuin used was what kept me hooked. The storyline was awesome, how everything came together was perfect. I give this book 11 out of 10 and highly suggest you read it, if you already have read it again!
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Summary: Not convinced yet.
Review: This is the first volume in the Earthsea quartet (followed by The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore and Tehanu). After his mother's death, young Ged gets to live with his father, a smith, and his aunt the village witch, who teaches him some minor spells, such as commanding to animals, until one day he uses this magic to save the village from barbaric invaders. Impressed by the boy's potential powers, the mage Ogion takes him as apprentice. But as the days go by, Ged becomes bored and when the choice is offered him, he decides to go to the wizards school of Roke. There he meets with two other scholars: Vetch who'll soon become his friend, and the arrogant Jasper who always looks down on him, and who'll become his rival. And after several months spent in the school, with hatred steadily growing between them, Ged one day challenges Jasper in a magic duel. And as Ged, in a surge of immoderate pride, is trying to wake the dead, he accidentally unleashes an evil shadow, also almost managing to get himself killed in the process. The story goes on to describe Ged perpetual flight from his shadow. Ursula LeGuin's style is elaborate and poetic, but maybe a little bit too much, too old-fashioned, for my liking. As a result, the novel somehow failed to fascinate me, and in the end I realized I didn't care much about what happened to the characters. I'll read the rest of the quartet anyway, in hope it gets more gripping.
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Summary: Simple and beautiful
Review: This is one of these rare books that, while being simple in plot and restrained in style, somehow resonate in a profound and moving manner. "Wistful" is probably the most fitting word I would use to describe what I felt after having read this. This is one of the most beautifully written books I have read.
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Summary: A Non-Stop Adventure
Review: I picked this book up to do a stupid book report on, but after the first chapter I couldn't even stop reading it. This book was so well written I had to read the other 3! I am currently reading Tehanu and am going to buy tales of earthsea soon. The books in this series are by far the most intelligent and well written books I have ever read! 05-23-01
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