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Review title: At least it served to prompt me to get the books
Product review: Having not read any of the Earthsea books, I watched this mini series with a modicum of objectivity that cannot be found in the folks that had previously read the series. The show was honestly nothing special and while mildy entertaining, could not be considered "good". For a lazy evening of TV, you could do worse. The one act of goodness that came from my viewing is that I purchased the Wizard of Earthsea to pass the time on a plane flight and after reading both that and the Tombs of Atuan, I realized what an injustice the movie had done to the books. Though many events are there, the plot is significantly different. I can understand how they tried to "Spice things up" for TV, but in this effort they failed by butchering many of the things that made the story deeply compelling. If you have read the books, be prepared for a different experience.
