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Ep 598 - A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Sparrowhawk: A Wizard's Guide to the End of the World

The book opens with this kind of like, hey, listener, reader, let us tell you about this great guy named the Sparrowhawk. He's a great wizard who's done lots of cool stuff. Let's tell you about when he was a boy. And then like we do the, it's a big epic myth. And yet the rest of the book is kind of nice and slight. So slight like, like tonally slight in like the amount or type of stuff that happens.

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