The Books of Earthsea

Love for this series is as much beyond my comprehension as love for McCarthy's The Road (and other stuff he wrote).

I actually made a pole in FB fantasy/sci-fi group whether I should read Earthsea or Hainish Cycle first and overwhelmingly, like 95 to 5 Earthsea won. What?

I liked the first book a lot actually. Second book was still decent but I wasn't a big fan. It got better as it progressed. Third book was utter garbage and when I was deciding whether or not to continue I read reviews for fourth only to learn it's even worse, making Ged, the greatest wizard who ever lived, a useless moron to make the main character shine oh that so much more as Mary Sue.

So I'm DNFing. I don't even like Hainish Cycle much, tbh, but it's better than the latter two Earthsea books I read. There's so many other series I want to start or continue with that I'm not going to bother and forcing myself through more of this knowing I'll hate it.