Book review: A Wizard of Earthsea

For once in my post-school life, I set myself a daily reading quota and got ahead of it, hence little more than half a month since my last review. It helps that AWoE has something I've never seen in other fantasy books: new maps as it goes along. (There's a complete map at the beginning, but details demand magnification.) Interestingly, some labeled areas never get mentioned in the story. Either Ursula K. Le Guin was saving them for later Earthsea entries, or she knows how unrealistic it is for even an epic adventure to involve absolutely every place.

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For my next read, I considered The Once and Future King (which has praise from Le Guin on the cover), but I want something more different, so I picked up Joe Haldeman's The Forever War. Didn't somebody here on LJ recommend it to me?