This is a really cool concept for a book. I loved the ending. The only thing I can say about this book other than that is that the characters have a lot of potential for funny fan fics, since the story doesn't go into very specific inner dialogue. Not something I would recommend to people wanting to get into the genre, but a good read.

A Wizard of Earthsea is a satisfyingly brisk high fantasy odyssey. The wizard school, while only a brief part of the book, seems to be a pre-cursor and possible influence of Harry Potter. The narrative is well-written. It seems to have been written with a young audience in mind, but does not insult the intelligence of these readers. I would recommend it to fans of fantasy and world-building epics of any age.

Even the author herself saw this book as a disappointment when she looked back on it. Maybe in 1968 it was clever and new, but this is just disappointingly patriarchal and lazy generic boy fantasy. It hardly deserves contemporary praise.

I read the, a while ago and really loved them! Amazing!

I have just finished A Wizard of Earthsea and thought it was excellent. I have never read anything by this author and was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the writing and the depth of the story. There are several interesting points about the nature of power and evil, and how we need to be sure of what we seek and why.

Excellent work of fantasy/fiction. Well paced with good character development. A good read -

First part in the 6-book "Earthsea" cycle. R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin.

And Old-school fantasy style series of a wizard and his coming of age adventures and trials. Good read for adolescents getting into YA who enjoy fantasy and dragons.

Much fun, looking forward to the later volumes -

I'm not quite sure why, but I just didn't like A Wizard of Earthsea. I wanted to. I love fantasy! And some of my favorite fantasy authors wrote in the mid-twentieth century. Nevertheless, I just couldn't get into this book. Perhaps it was my expectations (which so often ruin things). I knew the book was highly regarded and that Ursula LeGuin is considered a masterful writer. And yet I STILL did not love this book. I didn't even like it. I guess, in the end, I thought it was really esoteric and, as a result, unrelatable. I just couldn't get into it. For instance, where the heck are the female characters? It was like LeGuin was a man writing in the 14th century, omitting women almost entirely except for ugly references to straying and corrupted sorceresses (Serret at the Court of Terrenon) or extremely brief ones of piffling significance (Yarrow, the young sister of Ged's friend, Vetch). [Later on in the library--I have wikipedia-ed the book and alas! I think I understand my confusion. The book reflects LeGuin's belief in Taoism. While I resonated with elements of the story, I was ultimately flummoxed by her cosmology.]