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A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Shannon
Hillsborough

A review of this — 23 weeks ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

I’m sure I read A Wizard of Earthsea as a young adult, although I didn’t remember it very well. But like the best novels written for young people, it holds up excellently in this second reading as an adult.

In Earthsea, Le Guin has fully realized a land of islands, where people live as much on the sea as on the land, where there are dragons and wizards and magic. As a young boy, Sparrowhawk discovers his talent for magic when he protects his village from invasion by creating an obscuring fog. He is apprenticed to a wizard on his home island, then goes to the school for wizards across the sea, where his powers become evident. But his hubris gets the better of him, and in attempting a dangerous spell, he looses a nameless shadow in the world, which is bound to him and determined to possess him.

The rest of the story describes Sparrowhawk’s coming-of-age quest to learn how to defeat the shadow, and to learn who he is. Le Guin’s simple but evocative prose brings her imaginary world of Earthsea to life, and while reading this short book, I felt like I was traveling along with Sparrowhawk among the islands’ rocky cliff faces, desolate moors and heaving oceans. Whether rediscovering Earthsea or visiting it for the first time, the trip is worthwhile.

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A story about this — 4 years ago

If you liked the Sci-Fi channel adaptation, stay away from the original. The book is far superior.

krin
Olney

A story about this — 5 years ago

Rating: 4*/5

Grace
Houston

A story about this — 5 years ago

8.1999
9/10 Stars

A story about this — 5 years ago

This is one of those books that I always return to when I can’t find anything else to read. The story just never gets boring, and the beautiful usage of the English language is breathtaking. I guess tales of boys becoming men who become wizards will never fail to catch the attention of most.

A story about this — 6 years ago

This book has been on my wish list forever. Then I read that a miniseries was going to be made. That bumped it up to the top of my “must read” list.

Bill Turner
Pittsburgh

A story about this — 6 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

Pretty good book, but I’m curious. Is the story “boy finds out he has wizardly powers, and then goes off to wizard school” a pretty common one? Seems JK Rowling made off quite well with that story idea, although this book was published 25 years before the Harry Potter books. Hmmm.

Caroline
Amsterdam

A story about this — 7 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

Another flawed hero. This seems to be a pattern in my likes.

A story about this — 7 years ago

Another flawed hero. This seems to be a pattern in my likes.


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