Earthsea Cycle A Wizard of Earthsea, 1, Book 1, (Paperback)

from ben_a

I found this book on a shelf while on vacation, and the attraction of re-reading it was easily enoguh to pry me away from Roth's American Pastoral. Dipping back into a book after fifteen years is always an odd feeling, small snatches of prose call up memories of what is to come, and of where one ...

from Azuaron

A Wizard of Earthsea is one of the most important fantasy novels in the genre, right up there with Tolkien. Reading this book, finally, for the first time, I see how other novels have stood on its shoulders (most notably the Kingkiller Chronicles), and I am glad this book exists. That being said...

from eleanor_eader

I was surprised to find this book was as profound as it is; the label 'young adult' keeps leading me astray... all a book needs to fit the genre is a young protagonist and an uncluttered storytelling style, but I keep expecting a negative aspect, a lack of gravitas...not here, in A Wizard of Eart...

from laytonwoman3rd

I don't have a vast appetite for fantasy, but was persuaded by my family that I would enjoy this one. A fairly simple story about becoming a wizard (as LeGuin points out in her updated Afterword, they couldn't all start out as white-bearded wise old men), but more importantly about becoming, and ...

from eldang

Sweetly told coming-of-age story, that preaches Daoism as much as Daoism may be praught. I loved how it takes a very male story and turns machismo into a self-punishing weakness, but was also troubled by how even Le Guin wrote a story in which the women were all minor characters and very limited ...