A Wizard of Earthsea

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This week on the book podcast, Andrew reads A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Every week one of us reads a book and then tells the other person about it. "I feel like this trilogy, unless you really spend a lot of time with them, reading this book, this is great"

Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGuin's beloved fantasy novel is notable for how it plays both against and into common fantasy tropes, delivering a proper hero's journey without the same Sturm und Drang we've come to expect in the genre.

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