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The short version:Plot schmot, do you really think it’s accidental that The Other Wind is more contemplative than adventuresome? Ursula Le Guin is a very deliberate writer. The long version:Reading the Earthsea cycle in order will do more for you than simply get you up to speed on who’s who and what went before: so don’t start with this, the final book to date, if you want to really appreciate what Le Guin is doing. She created Earthsea in 1964, introduced Ged in 1968, and finally ended the ser...
How many months overdue is this review? Since sometime late last year, anyway...I was still in Belgium...that was two countries ago!This will almost certainly be the last novel about Earthsea that we shall see from Ursula LeGuin and it is a much more fitting end than Tehanu because it feels triumphant rather than negative. In similar vein to the Tales from Earthsea, ancient crimes and cover-ups that have had profound effects on the Archipelago's peoples are revealed. Matters are also set to righ...
Wonderful end to the Earthsea cycles! We finally learn what truly happened when wizard Cob tried to reach immortality. Did he really mess with the Equilibrium or has it been broken for a long time and his deed simply pointed that out? The long awaited answer as to what Tehanu really is! Why are Kargs so different to the rest of the Archipelagans? Did Ged really lose his powers? What about the dragons? This was a perfectly satisfying end to the whole tale. Once again, I have to give credit where
Is it me, or is the only way someone can be a good guy in this book (maybe in all of her work--I'm not a fan) by giving up something that's vital to themselves and the people around them? Not just a few, but everyone has to do this? That in the end she'd strip all her mages on their power if she could find a way to do it, or leave them nasty, mingey, sour people tightly clutching their skills to their chests and only reluctantly doling out bits of their knowledge to others because it's expected
I love Le Guin (see my review of The Beginning Place).I began reading the Earthsea cycle during undergrad, and only continued as I found each title at a used bookstore, which became much more difficult after the first 3 titles. The Other Wind concludes (continues?) the story extremely well. Looking forward to reading them all again, back-to-back this time.
“He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind I don't have anything very revolutionary to write about this book. I've now finished both the Hainish Cylce and the Earthsea Cycle and feel like Le Guin floated above hard scifi or fantasy. She was a brilliant storyteller and used genre fiction to explore the caves, the deserts, and the forests of humanity. Her language was decepti
The other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, #6), Ursula K. Le GuinThis novel continues the adventures of the characters from the previous Earthsea Cycle books Lebannen, Tenar, Tehanu, and, to a lesser extent than the other books, Ged. With the exception of Tehanu, the characters' characters are already fully developed. Tehanu, now a young woman, is still very shy and emotionally dependent on her adoptive mother, Tenar. She however agrees, albeit reluctantly, to accompany the king on a mission to meet an...
This is one of those novels that you have to see through to the very end before the total shape becomes clear and casts the entire series in a new light. Unfortunately, the buildup to get there is kinda middling for me. Don't get me wrong, the dragons are great and the whole introduction of new characters and getting back to the King and to the question of Ged and the role of women in this world is pretty good, but the best part is the return to the dry lands, the realm of the dead.As before, th...
Oh, my word, the second three are different books from a crone's viewpoint. Of course, UKL's words are glorious no matter where or when one comes to them, but oh, how these words burn. Meditations on life and death, on women and men, on dragonkind and humankind, on mage and commoner. Masterfully done. And of course, this:“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that...
And now I’ve read all the books in the Earthsea Cycle which is pretty cool. This started as a reread of the first four novels, with me reading books 5 and 6 for the first time this year. I thought that this was solid, but I was not as invested with a lot of these newer characters as I was with Ged and Tenar from the earlier books. Those two characters are still here, but not as prevalent within the story for understandable reasons. I actually found the Kargish princess to probably have been the
The Other Wind ≥ Tehanu ≥ The Tombs of Atuan > Tales from Earthsea > ... > A Wizard of Earthsea > The Farthest Shore.(The Other Wind is greater than or equal to Tehanu, which is greater than or equal to The Tombs of Atuan, which is greater than Tales from Earthsea, which is several orders of magnitude greater than A Wizard of Earthsea, which is greater than The Farthest Shore.)THAT IS ALL.
The final tale of Earthsea.Overall as a standalone story this is middle of the pack for the series, for most of it. However as an ending that wraps up the story both narratively and thematically it is fantastic.I still prefer Tehanu, and Tombs of Atuan, but the way this wrapped everything up was great.7.7/10
