Benny Bunter
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It's a bonus
lol, yeah, and she gives a pretty good reason why in that quote.That's nice, no one is saying it isn't, but it's far from the most interesting thing about the book. Literally everyone here on the thread didn't notice it on first read.
I take it as a sign of what a fantastic writer she was. Just gonna tuck this thoughtful detail in and let it go and then move onto all this other, amazing stuff.lol, yeah, and she gives a pretty good reason why in that quote.
But anyway, who said it was the most interesting or best thing about the book? Absolutely nobody here.
Really hit me as a child... the bone marrow bit.Such as the part where he's schlepping through a frozen waste with a sketchy shipmate, who turns out to be possessed by the shadow, and is then closely pursued by a figure that is nothing more than flapping cloth and horror, only to fall in with a witch and her sugar daddy in their cursed tower, a witch who turned two of her own servants' bone marrow to molten lead during a botched escape... That was an astonishing episode.
It leaves you free to just enjoy the writing and the story. Who wants to be dragged down with real world politics when you're reading a fantasy novel with loads of cool stuff like dragons and wizards and magic?
(Tehanu) "Life danced me. I know the dances. But I don't know the dancer."I was reading Tehanu last night (I can see why some people don't like it, but I do, other than some frankly weird changes in tone from time to time) and becoming increasingly convinced that Le Guin must have been a fan of Yeats.