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Last week, I finished my Earthsea reread and I have Thoughts. These thoughts are not presented in a well-crafted way--this is not anything approaching an essay. Maybe one day I will learn to craft my Thoughts into something admirable, but that doesn't seem to be my DW style. So here's just a bunch of things the books made me think about.
As I mentioned, I haven't read the series since high school, and my memory of it was that it was kind of...slight. My memory was wrong. The books are short, yes. But there is nothing else slight about them. There is so much going on, so much food for thought. I'm honestly shocked I have so much to say about them, but the stuff I'm talking about here is only a little portion of all the things that are present in the series as a whole. There's really nothing else like it.
( cut for length and also for spoilers for the whole series, though I don't think your reading experience would be lessened if you were 'spoiled' because it's not that kid of series )
Overall, it's a wonderful series. I think it works better as a series than most of the individual books do, Tombs and Tehanu aside. Those two books are the best as individual stories and get 5 stars from me. The rest got 4 stars or no star rating at all because I couldn't figure out how I felt about them. But the series itself, I believe, does deserve 5 stars. Taken as a whole, it works.
As I mentioned, I haven't read the series since high school, and my memory of it was that it was kind of...slight. My memory was wrong. The books are short, yes. But there is nothing else slight about them. There is so much going on, so much food for thought. I'm honestly shocked I have so much to say about them, but the stuff I'm talking about here is only a little portion of all the things that are present in the series as a whole. There's really nothing else like it.
( cut for length and also for spoilers for the whole series, though I don't think your reading experience would be lessened if you were 'spoiled' because it's not that kid of series )
Overall, it's a wonderful series. I think it works better as a series than most of the individual books do, Tombs and Tehanu aside. Those two books are the best as individual stories and get 5 stars from me. The rest got 4 stars or no star rating at all because I couldn't figure out how I felt about them. But the series itself, I believe, does deserve 5 stars. Taken as a whole, it works.
