When I was still in middle school one of the things I enjoyed the most was being set various books to read. Some of these were, in my opinion rubbish, some weren't, but the one which always stuck in my mind was and still is Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" which I suppose could be described as a kind of mixture of The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter books.
I enjoyed the first book so much that I bought my own copy together with the the two sequels and have read them many times over - they're still in my library today.
I'm therefore delighted to have read that the tales have been adapted by the Sci-Fi channel as a TV miniseries. It's airing in the US over the next couple of days, so I rather hope that it'll be transmitted over on this side of the pond sometime next year.
Failing that of course, if it gets a DVD release over there first, I can feel a personal import coming on...