Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) (Paperback, 1990, Bantam Books)
mass market paperback
Sprache: English
Am 1. Dezember 1990 von Bantam Books veröffentlicht.
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
Okay Ursula, I get it. Carl Jung blew my mind too. Jokes aside? genuinely very compelling fantasy. Wish I grew up reading this instead of Harry Potter.
Okay Ursula, I get it. Carl Jung blew my mind too. Jokes aside? genuinely very compelling fantasy. Wish I grew up reading this instead of Harry Potter.
I did really enjoy reading this, and will almost certainly go on to read the other Earthsea books.
I came to Earthsea after reading several of Le Guin's Hainish cycle books and short stories, including some of the earliest ones like Rocannon's World. I can see similarities with the earliest Hainish cycle works, from around the same time - an emphasis on male characters, for example - which I am sure would have been handled differently by the same author had she written them later on. But there are still a lot of great ideas here, and it is far more open-minded than most fantasy literature of its era.
I did really enjoy reading this, and will almost certainly go on to read the other Earthsea books.
I came to Earthsea after reading several of Le Guin's Hainish cycle books and short stories, including some of the earliest ones like Rocannon's World. I can see similarities with the earliest Hainish cycle works, from around the same time - an emphasis on male characters, for example - which I am sure would have been handled differently by the same author had she written them later on. But there are still a lot of great ideas here, and it is far more open-minded than most fantasy literature of its era.
This was a nice, almost Tolkienesque read. I love the fact that Le Guin deliberately made the main characters non-white, because she despised the good=white, black=evil trope.
Looking forward to the next books from the cycle.
Uuuhm. I enjoyed it, and for a "men doing things while talking in a complicated way" fantasy story this is very very good. Still... I asked myself why a few times.
Uuuhm. I enjoyed it, and for a "men doing things while talking in a complicated way" fantasy story this is very very good. Still... I asked myself why a few times.
