Objectively, this was very good and I can see why it's considered a classic of the genre, but as I was reading, I felt very little personal connection to the story. Ged starts out the story a complete asshole, and even though the whole point of the book is his redemption (or, to look at it another...
3.5 stars with benefit of doubt.This book starts well then meanders for far too long and then settles nicely into a good adventure with a fair amount of personal growth for the main character.I'll be reading the 2nd book (The Tombs of Atuan)with high expectations.
I remember reading this book as a child and loving it, and that is all I can remember, the reading and the loving. Anything about the contents have slipped through the old grey cells somehow. As it turned out my brain knew what it was doing when it jettisoned all the details of the book so yesterday...
I read the sequel to this book years ago and I loved it so much that I spent the next decade searching for A Wizard of EarthSea. It was worth the wait. This book is lyrical, vivid and fascinating. It's also a quick read, not An easy thing to find among classics.
The is only the second of le Guin's books I've read, and the first fantasy (the other was the sci-fi 'The Left Hand of Darkness'), so it's hard to generalise but there are some similarities. The dense, even-toned prose works well here, turning a simple coming-of-age story into something more mytholo...
Full review here: http://sffbookreview.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/ursula-k-le-guin-a-wizard-of-earthsea-earthsea-1/I was hoping to enjoy this more. I found the writing style gorgeous and the story and characters dreadfully lame.
This is the kind of story that lends itself to being read aloud. There's a beautiful rhythm and flow to the writing, and no wasted words. It reads like a fairytale; a simple story about a boy with great potential who rises from obscurity, learning courage and wisdom along the way.
This is the kind of story that lends itself to being read aloud. There's a beautiful rhythm and flow to the writing, and no wasted words. It reads like a fairytale; a simple story about a boy with great potential who rises from obscurity, learning courage and wisdom along the way.
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