4 ms·
I like all of Earthsea. But what really surprised me about the Earthsea "trilogy" was how interesting the later three books were, and how much they subtly refl
by SeanLuke 5y ago
I like all of Earthsea. But what really surprised me about the Earthsea "trilogy" was how interesting the later three books were, and how much they subtly reflected, I suppose, changes in her philosophy about feminism and culture. [For those of you who don't know, Le Guin wrote the original trilogy early in her career, then wrote the last three books much, much later, with a big gap between].
- hardlianotion 5y agoI found the later books rather boring - she grew away from me. The book where we departed company, I think, was Always Coming Home.
- pmoriarty 5y agoI never even got to the later Earthsea books. I absolutely loved and treasured The Wizard of Earthsea, which I've read and reread many times over my life (something I almost never do with any books). The other two books in the trilogy: The Tombs of Atuan and The Furthest Shore were pretty disappointing to me, so I stopped reading Le Guin after that.
- bnralt 5y agoThe two earliest Earthsea short stories, The Word of Unbinding and The Rule of Names, are worth reading if you liked the more high-fantasy focus of the first book.
- pmoriarty 5y agoI found a reading of The Rule of Names here: - Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwDAn0aBqcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwDAn0aBqcc - Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YFgSFvMN7M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YFgSFvMN7M - Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTZ4fEFgFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTZ4fEFgFA
- vmilner 5y agoThe 1997 BBC Radio adaptation of TWoE (narrated by Judi Dench and Michael Maloney as Ged) is wonderful - parallel in quality to their 1981 Lord of the Rings adaptation.