Books 42

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Workload is still keeping me from reading any too quickly.

42) The Farthest Shore: The conclusion of the Earthsea trilogy. I decided to read this immediately after Tombs in hopes of staying in the cadence of LeGuin's work, and it was successful - I tore through this one, enjoying it quite a bit. It also helped that I finally internalized that these are a series of coming of age novels, which helped. Alongisde that realization was the grossly unfair thought "It's like 'Pern' done by someone who can write!"

I know, grossly unfair, because McCaffery _can_ write, even if she hasn't done anything noteworthy in a couple of decades, she won a Hugo for her initial Pern short story and the Pern books themselves are quite good YA lit. But I had to include ti because it had me giggling.

Comments

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I liked the original Earthsea trilogy. It held up on the re-read.

I detested Tehanu, the fourth book, written years later. I can rant about why, if you want. I also didn't care for the fifth, The Other Wind, and can rant about that.