“I would not ask a sick man to run a race,” said Sparrowhawk, “nor lay a stone on an overburdened back.” It was not clear whether he spoke of himself or of the world at large. Always his answers were grudging, hard to understand. There, thought Arren, lay the very heart of wizardry: to hint at might...
After enjoying the first volumes, not so sure about this one. The narrative involves what Clute & Grant would designate as thinning of the setting. The infliction of wrongness on the setting is caused, it seems, by an evil sorcerer. Guess I'm not digging that. Whereas the first two volumes had m...
Of all the books in the Earthsea Cycle thus far, this one, of the battle between light and darkness, is the most enigmatically and allegorically written. A line from the book, "There lay at the very heart of wizardry: to hint at mighty meanings while saying nothing at all, and to make doing nothing ...
My husband was absolutely convinced after we saw the atrocious Earthsea miniseries on the SciFi Channel that I needed to read all of Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Cycle books for myself. I was skeptical after the sheer awfulness of the miniseries, but after completing the first two novels in the Cycle (A...
The Farthest Shore was written for tweens and teens, so if you just want a good fantasy full of adventure and daring and DRAGONS (the best part!), ignore all of the following and just enjoy. This is a story the meaning of which will derive from the beliefs of the individual reader. Had I read it wh...
This is my third attempt to review this book; the first attempt reached only one sentence before I deleted it; the second reached...not even one character before I gave up, but now I've thought of a way to approach it, so here goes, wish me luck trying to do it justice.Each of the first three Earths...
If there was some subtle criticism of western religion in Tombs of Atuan, in Farthest Shore Le Guin has abandoned subtlety. Ged must discover why magic is failing across Earthsea and finds that not just magic but music and craft and language and everything that adds richness to life is draining awa...
Very good. My favorite so far in the series. Wrestles with the stuff I like (life as journey vs destination, being lost, the road rising to meet you, etc) while tackling bigger ideas about valuing life and death equally. PLUS there was dragons and spells and strange & distant lands, so. Also (POSSIB...
One of the Earthsea series. It was probably my least favorite out of all of them, although I love Lebbannen. I would still re-read it, and it’s Ursula LeGuin, so it can’t be bad.
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