A Wizard of Earthsea

I enjoyed this book. I'm not normally a fan of fantasy, but this book managed to intrigue me. Sure, I figured out practically the entire plot within the first few chapters, but it was somehow compelling to me. It was a rather cliche book, with the whole dragons and wizard school and the likes, but it was also unique at the same time. I would have liked it more if at the beginning of the book it didn't say that he was the greatest sorcerer to ever live and that he tamed dragons, because that made it seem a lot less interesting to read. Despite this, I still read past the pages of it telling me how the book would progress.
I found the concept to be interesting, and also how Ged interlaced together spells in order to not only create a binding spell but also a mist spell. I knew that the invaders wouldn't get in even before he did this, because they would most likely kill him and then the book would end. However, there were more than one hundred pages to go.
When he read the spell that allowed him to bring back the sous of the dead, I knew he would use that spell despite the warnings he received from Ogion. It was just so amazingly obvious. The foreshadowing wasn't even slightly hidden. And I don't really understand why Jasper had to have a rivalry with Ged, because Jasper was 2 or 3 years older than Ged and knew much more than Ged did about almost everything.
When it reached the part where it first mentioned the name of the shadow, I thought nothing of it. I just figured that the shadow had no name. But when they started to mention that it might just have a name, I figured out that its name was Ged. It wasn't that hard to see that the shadow was Ged. It was especially easy to see that the shadow's name was Ged when people mentioned that they saw someone like Ged walking around, but the thing cast no shadow. It was also an easy thing to notice because the shadow knew his true name without ever really hearing it from somebody else.
I would read the next books in the series. I'd like to see how Ged could possibly get stronger than he already is, and if the shadow ever comes up again in any of the story plots. I bet it probably will, along with a re-appearance of Jasper. Vetch would also probably play a large role in the book, and maybe, just maybe, the giant dragon makes a re-appearance. That would be interesting. Would Ged die or not? (Of course he wouldn't. He knows the name of the dragon and also it would be a terrible ending to kill of your main character.)