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Summary: A wonderful book that probably changed my life.
Review: I remember reading this on my tenth birthday. I've read it many times since, and every time it's just as wonderful and just as magical.
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Summary: Incredible resource for pagan parenting
Review: If you are leading your children down the "Old Path" and want them to learn responsibility in their practices these are the first books I'd recommend.
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Summary: It felt a little distant
Review: While LeGuin's prose is beguiling and her characters believable, somehow I felt a little more removed from the scene than I like to be when I'm reading a novel. I'm not sure why that is. I would have preferred to get more deeply inside the heads of the characters than I did. Otherwise, an excellent book - I felt that things were happening even without the bloody battles and lurid affairs that so often are used in fantasy novels in place of good writing to hold the reader's interest.
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Summary: this book is quite nice
Review: This book is good and so are the other two books after it. It talks about this boy saving a girl from a life as a nun among other adventures. The fourth book is rather a disappointment. It takes place years later so I recommend that you don't read it. I won't tell what's the disappointment. Please read it if you only care about the adventure and not how the characters end up.
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Summary: This book was one of the best fantasy books i've ever read.
Review: This was a great fantasy book from the beginning. After I read this book, I couldn't wait to read the sequels. This book is definitely in my list of top 5 books ever.
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Summary: A great series.
Review: This series is one of the best I have ever read. It takes you to a great world, with great characters, a great heroe and fantastic evolutions in the story. If you love this kind of reading it's a must. If you don't like this kind of reading, you'll beginn to do that.
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Summary: Dazed and confused
Review: I give credit to Ursula for imanginative and creative scenerios of writing in this book, but must say I didn't enjoy reading it. I read this book in English last year and found the plot very hard to follow. This was not only my opinion, but the opinion of 30 other students. This book is definately not a page turner. I would only recommend this book to those of you who have very open imaginations, LOVE fantasy, and have the time to sit down and carefully read this book.
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Summary: A brilliant book for everyone
Review: I first read this book two years ago when i was 22 and away on holiday with my fiance. It is one of his favourite books, and he has read the whole series time and again. I enjoy reading all types of literature, although science-fiction and fantasy books are my favourite. I have always favoured sci-fi, especially Asimov and Clarke, and my fiance fantasy, particularly Tolkien and Le Guin. This book, along with The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, have made me as passionate about fantasy as sci-fi. The book works on many levels, as a good story, as escapism, as a gateway to an incredible fantasy land, and as something far deeper. The story is thought-provoking and compelling, rich and meaningful. The book examines how we consider ourselves and the world around us. What is our real self ? What are we capable of ? How do our actions influence the world around us ? How do the names that we apply to objects affect how we view and understand them ? A brilliant book that i would recommend to anyone of any age. I think its ridiculous that great literature such as this, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Alice in Wonderland, C.S. Lewis, and so on get classified as "childrens books". They are books for everyone with imagination, who enjoys good story-telling, and interesting and unusual characters. They are tales which leave strong images for years after reading, which make you want to go back to read again and again, which offer something new each time they are read, which make you want to tell other people about them, which enthrall and inspire you, which leave you with plenty to think and talk about, and which push back the boundaries of your thoughts and imagination.
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Summary: Dragons have human failings after all
Review: One of the very first fantasy books I read, "A wizard of Earthsee" brings conflicting emotions to me even now. At the time I first read it, I definitely didn't understand it and found it slow and unpictoresque. Now some 15 years later, I find it a great work on human nature and the "stuff" of which human relationships are made of. Indeed, when you think of somebody, you think about a name and a mental picture of what the persons represents for you; so, the idea of imbuing the name with the essence is in my opinion a nice one. Short : this is a book you should read when you're older, it takes a whole new meaning.
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Summary: A Word Can Lead Any Direction
Review: Ged becomes the greatest wizard of earthsea with his use of Real Words. The magic from this and the other stories of the Earthsea series flows through your mind because the book itself is a Real Word of Power - - and will transform you into the growing world of Earthsea fans.
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