not my fav book by my fav author
3 stars
this and the first Earthsea book are really just not my cup of tea
Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages
English language
Published Aug. 31, 2001 by Simon Pulse.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-689-84534-5
- OCLC Number:
- 832726772
- Goodreads:
- 13667
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Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged -- powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.
Luka /bookwyrm/ reviewed The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #3)
about death
5 stars
This book has a strong message about the necessity of death, imagining what happens when immortality is possible.
When one door is closed many more are open
4 stars
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 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.
Aneel reviewed The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
Review of 'The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I liked this one less than the first two. Like them, it's a coming-of-age story, but it has elements of the prophesied chosen one pattern that I dislike in fantasy novels.
I liked this one less than the first two. Like them, it's a coming-of-age story, but it has elements of the prophesied chosen one pattern that I dislike in fantasy novels.
Subjects
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Juvenile Fiction
- Fairy Tales & Folklore - General
- Children's 12-Up - Fiction - Fantasy
- Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
- Magic
- Classics
- Juvenile Fiction / Classics
- Fantasy
- Fiction