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   From: ojevind.lang@bredband.net   
      
   "Steve Morrison"  skrev i meddelandet   
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   > JimboCat wrote:   
   >   
   >> Recently I read or re-read ALL of Earthsea. The first three are still   
   >> very much the best, but the most recent stuff is not bad at all. I was   
   >> really struck by the similarities to Pullman's trilogy: in both, the   
   >> world is "broken" by attempts to cheat death, and "repaired" by   
   >> releasing and recycling the shades of the dead people. Must be   
   >> something in the air, I guess...   
   >   
   > Did you also read the two early short stories which are collected in   
   > /The Wind's Twelve Quarters/? i.e. "The Word of Unbinding" and "The   
   > Rule of Names"   
      
   I did. They are excellent, as are most of the storiues in that collection.   
   My favourite is "Winter's King", which of coruse is a spinoff from "The Left   
   Hand of Darkness."   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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