• The Farthest Shore – Reviewing Classics

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:76 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:3.8★ Rating:76 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:3.8★ Rating:76 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:3.8½ Rating:76 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:3.8☆ Rating:76 Fraction:3.876%
    The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3)
    Ursula Le Guin
    Atheneum Books, 1972
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 141650964X
    272 Pages

    Synopsis

    Magic is disappearing from the outer edges of the world of Earth Sea, and it’s soon apparent that a great darkness is overtaking the land. People are hurtled into hopeless and despair, and many are losing their lives in consecutive drug trips where they seek to find the master who can grant eternal life, only to soon die from brain damage and starvation.

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    The Tombs of Atuan – Reviewing Classics

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55½ Rating:71 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55☆ Rating:71 Fraction:3.5571%
    The Tombs of Atuan (Book 2 – The Earthsea Cycle)
    Ursula LeGuin
    Atheneum Books, 1971
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 1416509623
    192 pages
    Newbery Honor Book

    Synopsis

    Tenar, the priestess to the ancient and long held worship of the Nameless Ones, is taken as a child and raised as the one who will guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan for her entire life. Thought to be the reincarnation of the one priestess who lives and is reincarnated in every generation, Tenar is raised as someone who is both feared and revered by her peers and authority figures, even at a young age.

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    Earthsea – Film

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:36 Fullstar:1 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:1.8½ Rating:36 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:1.8☆ Rating:36 Fraction:1.8☆ Rating:36 Fraction:1.8☆ Rating:36 Fraction:1.836%
    Earthsea
    Lion’s Gate
    Fantasy
    ASIN: B00077BPA0

    Synopsis

    The world of Earth Sea is out of balance, and now a young wizard must save it from the Nameless Ones. First, however, he must learn how to be a wizard and how to grow up. A result of his pride and anger, he uses a dangerous spell to bring a member of the dead back to life. However, what he gets instead is a Nameless One that he releases into the world. He must find and fight the evil creature while at the same time journeying to the distant isles of Earthsea in order to restore balance to their world.

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    A Wizard of Earthsea – Reviewing Classics

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:72 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.6 Fraction:3.6★ Rating:72 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.6 Fraction:3.6★ Rating:72 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.6 Fraction:3.6½ Rating:72 Star Piece:0.6 Fraction:3.6☆ Rating:72 Fraction:3.672%
    A Wizard of Earthsea (Book 1 – The Earthsea Cycle)
    Ursula LeGuin
    Parnassus Press, 1968
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0553262505
    183 pages

    Synopsis

    A young and very powerful wizard is discovered when he saves his village from marauding intruders, he is quickly taken in by a local Magus in order to be trained. Constantly haughty and impatient, Ged in eventually sent to the school to be trained as an official Magus.

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