About 14 years ago one of my managers gave me the Turkish translations of these (after seeing me read The Lord of the Rings) and I read them but they didn't register. I don't think it was the translation, I just was not ready for these at that time. Later came that horrible film directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son Goro. I remember that the novelist Ursula Le Guin voiced her dislike of the adaptation.
And when I saw the above book at the bookstore (at the time I thought I has some free points left), it felt like the right thing to give them another try.
A Wizard of Earthsea aaaannnnd I was completely into it right away. I loved the prose, uncluttered and economic. The story and the hero. These ones deserve a better adaptation to film (only so that more people would be interested). Ged is a hero to my own heart. Struggling and losing to vanity, pride and inferiority complex but finding that he is wrong, wins agains all of those and more in the end. I liked the Earthsea AU and was completely into it so much so that I have actually stopped doing anything else and read on (how I love when it happens).
Unless something drastic will happen during the other novels, I plan on reading more of this writer.
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