The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3)

Nessuna copertina — Ursula K. Le Guin: The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3) (Paperback, 1977, Bantam Doubleday Dell)

Paperback, 197 pagine

Pubblicato il 11 Novembre 1977 da Bantam Doubleday Dell.

ISBN:: 978-0-553-11599-4
Numero OCLC:: 26079655

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Luka /bookwyrm/ ha recensito The Farthest Shore di Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #3)

about death

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This book has a strong message about the necessity of death, imagining what happens when immortality is possible.

el dang ha recensito The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3) di Ursula K. Le Guin

When one door is closed many more are open

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Avviso sul contenuto mild spoilers inside

A lovely third instalment of the Earthsea series, and a good handoff from it being all Ged's story to broadening out. A few off notes though:

I found the emphasis on restoring the King to bring back order off-putting and at odds with the gentle daoism infusing everything else about these books.
Arren seems to go awfully quickly from doubting naif to ready to be crowned. I liked how much Ged's ascendancy was about time, effort and learning from his own mistakes, and Arren's feels rushed by comparison.
This may be the most extreme of the Earthsea books so far for just lacking female characters.

I gather that the later books were in part a deliberate effort by an older Le Guin to fix some of the deficiencies of the first 3, especially around gender (even in Tombs of Atuan, I found Tenar more a captive who has things happen to her than a full actor). As much as I did enjoy this one, it's made me look forward to those even more.