A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was, for me, an instant classic. Le Guin's voice is at once immediate and timeless.
You know the characters already, and have always known them, because they are the stuff of fairy tales and myths and legends, but they are also right here, right now, and do and think as they please. You know the story, too, because it's every story Joseph Campbell ever dreamed of, but it's also only this one, small story, about this one small person named Ged.
That sounds all high-falutin', and maybe it's because I was just coming off a James Ellroy where everyone was torturing each other and doing heroin and dying and shit-talking JFK, but Wizard of Earthsea is a story I fell in love with. Read it to your kids! (Harry Potter ripped it off anyway!)
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