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geras , 13 days ago to bookstodon group

"The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours."

— Ursula K. Le Guin: The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle)

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geras , 17 days ago to Books

I've finished the third and fourth entries of the saga.

In "The Farthest Shore" the magic is running out of the world; Ged and the prince of Enlad part in an adventure to find out what the problem is. It's a book full of adventure, visiting many Islands in the archipelago.

In contrast, "Tehanu" has a slower pace. It's a fantasy novel in which dragons and magic are not in the foreground. It answers the question How does the dispossessed, children, women, handicapped, live in a world with magic? And doing so makes you think about the power relations in the so called real world.

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(comment on The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle), p. 600)

geras , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

I finished the second book in the saga titled "The Tombs of Atuan". It's great.

It follows the story of Tenar, a girl taken to an old temple in the desert to be the priestess devoted to the "Nameless Ones", ancient gods long forgotten.

She was very lonely there; all her life changed when she met Ged, the first book's protagonist, who was in the underground labyrinth under the temple looking for an ancient relic. This encounter completely changes Tenar's life.

The main topics of the book are freedom, gender, and the power relations emanating between those, reflecting the anarchist views of Ursula.

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(comment on The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle), p. 245)