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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:50:55 -0700 (PDT), JimboCat   
   <103134.3516@compuserve.com> wrote:   
      
   >On Jul 27, 2:45 pm, Öjevind Lång  wrote:   
   >> "Nicholas Young"  skrev i   
   >   
   >> > Yes - I totally forgot her and should have included her in exactly the   
   >> > same   
   >> > way as you have.  Though in fact I think her very latest work is better   
   >> > than   
   >> > what precedes it: for instance, I enjoyed _The Other Wind_ (the fifth book   
   >> > of Earthsea) *very* much more than _Tehanu_.   
   >>   
   >> I can't posibly dislike it more than "Tehanu". Perhaps I'll give it a try.   
   >> It's just that after having enjoyed so many of her books, I was then   
   >> subjected to one rude disappointment after another beginning with "The Eye   
   >> of the Heron".   
   >   
   >I was very disturbed by "Tehanu". I think that was the author's   
   >intention! I avoided reading more LeGuin for many years. I bounced off   
   >"The Telling" hard at first reading.   
   >   
   >A few years later I tried "The Telling" again, and I liked it a lot.   
   >   
   >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...   
      
   I first read the Earthsea trilogy in 1973, and enjoyed it. I wouldn't compare   
   it with Tolkien, though.   
      
   I reread it in 1980, and didn't enjoy it as much.   
      
   I read the Quartet (including Tehanu) in 1994/5, and enjoyed it even less, and   
   "Tehanu" was just plain boring.   
      
   I didn't realise that others had been added, but I don't think I'll bother   
   with them.   
      
   Tolkien I enjoy more on re-reading, but le Guin I enjoyed less.   
      
      
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