A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Trilogy, Book 1)

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Summary: Good story and very well written
Review: I liked the story, particularly the evolution of Ged's character throughout the book. I think the book is very well written, Ursula Le Guin uses a beautiful languange. The only drawback I find in this book is being a bit slow in some parts.

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Summary: Realistic characters in a fantasy world
Review: This is the first book of Ged's life tetralogy. Here, young Ged is an apprentice of the magical arts that are so difficult to find in Earthsea, a world of scattered islands. The young mage will discover his powers, his fears, and the power of his fears. He will find out his place in the world, and his role in the struggle between light and shadow. This is a story set in a fantasy world, but tells about the struggle of keeping one's ideals while growing up and understanding how other people act, think and feel.

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Summary: This book sucked big!!!!!!
Review: I hated this book. It had a boring plot, it was hard to understand. It is one of the worst fantasy novels I have ever read.

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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.