Books 42

[subplotkudzu]

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

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

I doubt that you're wrong. The series seemed pretty well concluded at the end of Farthest Shore, and like Lee I generally don't like those age old revisits. Plus, I have yet to hear anyone jump up in praise fo the book. Mostly it's referred to as "not bad" at best.

It tried to consider the issue of how close friendships (regardless of whether there's sex involved) between men are expected to be stronger than their marriages or families

That's a load of horse hooey, at least in my experience. I know who my best friend is, thanks, and oddly enough she's the person I chose to live with.