Celebrity Death Match

[Karl Anderson]

"Simon North" <Simon.North@synopsys.com> writes:

> > Okay, celebrity death match, J.K. Rowling and Terry Pratchett.
> > Having been introduced to Pratchett far before ever seeing anything
> > about Harry Potter before this weekend, it seems to me that
> > The Sorceror's Stone is the same coming of age wizard story
> > as the Color of Magi.
> 
> Don't forget Ursula Le Guin; the Earthsea series has much of the wizard coming of age story, and the quality 
> of the writing is incomparably better. 

How about the _Sword Of The Spirits_ trilogy by John Christoper?  A
coming of age materialist story in a theocratic society.  I love his
style of children's book writing, probably because it's for a slightly
older audience.

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Karl Anderson      kra@monkey.org           http://www.monkey.org/~kra/