Don't get me wrong... I loved the Earthsea series, but there is just something about Ursula's writing style that keeps ripping me out of the imaginary world for reasons I can't understand... There's something about the meter or maybe just the way she switches from active to passive voice every few sentences that made reading the novels a much larger chore than it otherwise would have been. Overall, I've very much enjoyed her work. It's just that 'twinge' that I can't specifically identify.