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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “I'm not that big of a fan of Sci-Fi / Fantasy books - but I loved this one with a passion. It was my favorite out of the three Earthsea novels and I felt I took so much away from the story that I could put towards my life - as cheesy as that might sound. |
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victoria s wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Read this when I was a young teen and then again a few years back. The entire series is amazing and a great read for teenager or adult alike. Superb fantasy.”
Gus H wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Not my favorite, but interesting - worth the read.”
Camilla N wrote this review Tuesday, October 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is the third book in the Earthsea series. It is about a prince named Arren, and Ged, who has now become the archmage. Arren deeply respects Ged from the first moment they meet, and desperately wants Ged to be his teacher. However, Arren comes barring bad news. Magic is being lost from the kingdom, people are beginning to forget the words that make the magic happen, and the balance that the wizards work to keep is being lost. Ged sees that Arren is an important part of solving this mystery, and decides to take him along on his journey to fix the balance. But he doesn't know how important Arren really is.
ARIEL C wrote this review Monday, October 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I like this book, but I have to say, it's not as good as the first two. Arren is an interesting character, a lot like Ged was when he was younger. However, Arren is a bit dark and mislead, so it makes him less likable. Also, Ged is getting rather old here, and is losing some of the important qualities that made him so relatable when he was younger. Also some of the better side characters are barely even mentioned in this book. So overall, it's a pretty good story, but not the best in the series.”
“I didn't like this as much as I did the first two, but it plays an important part in what happens later in the series.”
Mark S wrote this review Wednesday, July 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“A strange, inexplicable malaise is spreading throughout Earthsea. Magic is losing its power; songs are being forgotten; people and animals are sickening or going mad. Accompanied by Arren, the young Prince of Enlad, the Archmage Ged leaves Roke Island to find the cause. After a journey fraught with many missteps, they travel to the end of the earth, and beyond, into the land of the dead. There they confront and defeat the mage Cob, who had opened a breach between the worlds in an attempt to cheat death and live forever. In order to shut this breach, Ged sacrifices all his magic.
Wendy B wrote this review Thursday, July 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
When they emerge back into the world of the living, Arren realizes that he has fulfilled the prediction of the last King of Earthsea many centuries before: "He shall inherit my throne who has crossed the dark land living and come to the far shores of the day." In the intervening time, the realm had broken up into smaller principalities and domains, with little peace between them. Now they can be reunited.
Le Guin offers us two endings to the story. In one, after Arren's coronation, Ged sails alone out into the ocean and is never heard from again. In the other, Ged returns to the forest of his home island of Gont. In 1990, seventeen years after the publication of The Farthest Shore, Le Guin opted for the second ending when she continued the story in Tehanu.
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“Magic is fading, people no longer remember the true words or the songs of life and it's up to Ged along with Arren to help set things right. Their journey takes them to the farthest shore in Ea and then beyond, to the farthest reaches of death itself.
4boyz4me wrote this review Thursday, April 30 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
While I really enjoyed this one, I found it a bit harder to get into it. I kept trying but found myself easily distracted from it and then having a hard time finding my place in it. In some ways, that almost added to the experience since it so closely mirrored what was going on in the book. Definitely a very powerful story tho the first still remains the most powerful in my opinion.”
“The third book in Earthsea cycle. A journey within! Which is symbolized by a journey outside. The high king of Earthsea will learn a lot about Earthsea, about dragons and about Ged, the high wizard of Rok.”
Ebrahim Taghavi wrote this review Saturday, April 11 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I still like the second one best. There is something about Ged that bugs me. Also it was anticlimactic. They spent the whole book chasing this terrible evil, but when they found it, they defeated it in less than a page.”
Brooke A wrote this review Monday, April 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I enjoyed this one as well. I'm a fan of Ged's, what can I say and it was interesting to see Arren come into is own, starting out thinking he knew a great deal and coming to the realization that perhaps he did not. Great to watch the metamorphis.”
sunshine805 wrote this review Thursday, March 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
