I finally got around to reading these this year and overall they are delightful. You can really see where a lot of modern authors have found inspiration.
My favourite of the quartet was probably the first one, though. It's a good version of The Name of the Wind.
*********May be slightly spoilerish from here on, though I tried to avoid it.*********
For those who have read them: what did you think of the fourth (Tehanu)? I thought it wasn't in keeping with the others. All of a sudden there was a very grim premise (Therru's history) and it felt a lot angrier, lacking in hope despite Lebannen. Is this a product of the gap between the books and where Fantasy had gone in the intervening years?
Are the other two books worth reading?
My favourite of the quartet was probably the first one, though. It's a good version of The Name of the Wind.
*********May be slightly spoilerish from here on, though I tried to avoid it.*********
For those who have read them: what did you think of the fourth (Tehanu)? I thought it wasn't in keeping with the others. All of a sudden there was a very grim premise (Therru's history) and it felt a lot angrier, lacking in hope despite Lebannen. Is this a product of the gap between the books and where Fantasy had gone in the intervening years?
Are the other two books worth reading?
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Ursula Le Guin: The Earthsea Quartet
- 17/04/2012 12:42:49 PM
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I need to get around to those. LeGuin was great in Left Hand of Darkness, so...
- 18/04/2012 09:41:15 PM
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Re: Am sick, so the tl;dr version is: yes, they are.
- 29/04/2012 08:51:26 PM
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Re: Am sick, so the tl;dr version is: yes, they are.
- 01/05/2012 12:14:47 AM
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Re: Not that they didn't have a plot, yeah, but that the focus is the theme and the characters. *NM*
- 01/05/2012 06:16:58 AM
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Ah ok with that I would agree, yes they were very much less plot driven *NM* *NM*
- 07/05/2012 08:16:26 AM
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