Ursula Le Guin

Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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I'm having to avoid reading this thread now cos of spoilers, but I finished the trilogy now, good material for while I was in bed with the lurgy for three days. Enjoyed all of them but I think I'll wait a bit before reading Tehanu, don't want to burn out on them.

I liked the claustrophobic atmosphere of the second one, and the farthest shore was a strong return to
the epicness of the first book.

@Corpsey if you haven't already you must read left of darkness, really beautiful story.
 
Benny Bunter

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Anyone here read any of her poetry? I'm quite intrigued. I like the epigraph from wizard of earthsea, it stands alone nicely as a Confucian thing

Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.
 
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woops

woops

is not like other people
im sick of children's literature being discussed on a forum i thought respected a certain standard of intellectualism. if you want to discuss earth sea, Susan copper, Tolkien etc take it to a nerd forum. certain standard have to be upheld
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
this is the stuff i read when i was seven years old and if I'm not six times wiser than that I'm disgusted
 
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woops said:
im sick of children's literature being discussed on a forum i thought respected a certain standard of intellectualism. if you want to discuss earth sea, Susan copper, Tolkien etc take it to a nerd forum. certain standard have to be upheld
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I endorse this opinion.
 
luka

luka

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woops only reads biographies as a rule but from it's inception dissensus has only ever read
1. childrens books
2. books about elves and wizards
3. books about rocket ships and little green men

mark fisher and simon reynolds are probably to blame. both of them were anti-literature. never read poems or novels.
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
i read the left had of darkness and thought it was great, goes really off when they start that hike and it's all ice and crevices and fog and it was wholesom reading about how they spent their time together in their little tent and chat eachother, one of them a bit too cold, the other a bit too warm. i kept hoping they would have sex and was a bit annoyed by having those thoughts. another thing that was clever about it i think, that as a reader you were similiarly confused as genly ai himself. i kept wondering what shifgrethor means. i had a vague understanding of it being something like respect but didn't really grasp it, later on genly ai himself says so himself as well that he doesn't really get it. the bit on the truck was impressive as well, had me thinking about the holocaust.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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yyaldrin said:
i read the left had of darkness and thought it was great, goes really off when they start that hike and it's all ice and crevices and fog and it was wholesom reading about how they spent their time together in their little tent and chat eachother, one of them a bit too cold, the other a bit too warm. i kept hoping they would have sex and was a bit annoyed by having those thoughts. another thing that was clever about it i think, that as a reader you were similiarly confused as genly ai himself. i kept wondering what shifgrethor means. i had a vague understanding of it being something like respect but didn't really grasp it, later on genly ai himself says so himself as well that he doesn't really get it. the bit on the truck was impressive as well, had me thinking about the holocaust.
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Good bump, reminded me I need to reread this book this year - forgotten most of it now, but I remember the ice hike section as one of the most moving things I've ever read.

I read half of the dispossessed straight after, but then I spilled beer all over it and it bloated into this ugly swollen object that I didn't want to pick up anymore. Maybe I'll give it another go this year too.

The earthsea books are magical.
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
is that from earthsea?

i read the word for world is forest before the left hand of darkness and it helped me a bit as it is set in the same "galaxy". i love it that both books had different worlds, the former the thick and lush rainforest and the latter the crystalized ice world. the word for world is forest reminded me a bit of apocalypse now.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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No not from earthsea, it's just a nice poem called To the Rain I found on the poetry foundation website. Earthsea has a lot of poetic bits in it though.
 
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