Ursula Le Guin is one of the great elders of fantasy literature, and their " Erdseezyklus " a while ago also filmed, is often (but, I think, wrong to ) compared to Lord of the Rings. Nevertheless - Earthsea is worth reading.
What is it now in "the wild gift"? The setting is a Fantasy Society, which resembles a medieval Scotland. In cities there are already printing, but in the Highlands live rival clans . The latter - here's the amazing aspect - have certain magical abilities, which are inherited - some can tame animals, cause disease or any other matter - into the mud - whether dead or alive.
The Story : the latter also has the gift of the young Clan Orrec . Only with Orrec even stirs in puberty if the gifts should show the latest, yet. Papa sludgy , son get it toward non-massive castration fears! But then he fry away by mistake a stupid dog and a hill and gets blindfolded, because without seeing his goal, he can not conjure up - and since he had a "wild transfer", he can not control them. Or did he end up wanting to mud and dog was Papa's fault? Who knows!
The problem with the book - that's it for now. Actually nothing happened. Orrec has depressed blindfolded and brooding to himself. The whole time I was hoping for the big bang at the end, but - nothing. My fear is already a second part ...
Even when I found Earthsea Le Guin always lengthy, but also compelling - but the "wild transfer" could not inspire me, unfortunately. And despite a love story in the book, the characters remain passionate as multiply and toast, I suppose, by cell division.
Although Le Guin linguistically much, much better - I would rather read then again a great MZB - tearjerker .
So unfortunately
** (two out of five)
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