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I enjoyed her earlier books, but her later "radical feminist" phase didn't appeal to me at all.
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There are rumors that she was a candidate in recent years for the Nobel Prize.
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I have two ancient paperback collections of her short stories that I refuse to part with: The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose. The first was finally released as an ebook last February; I hope the other will one day be available. I re-read them both last year and still love nearly all the stories. Thank you, Ms. Le Guin, for many hours of reading pleasure.
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When I discovered the Earthsea books, I was working in a small coastal village where the normal way to get in and out was by boat. It was very interesting to me to in some ways live in the same environment as Ged. The villagers would often talk about going down the reach. They would take their boat across the harbour, rather than walking. They were as much at home on the sea as on land. Le Guin created a marvelous world. I used to love looking at the islands in the maps of my old paperbacks. That's one of the few downsides to me about having gone totally digital - the maps just aren't as easy to read on a device. Last edited by bfisher; 01-25-2018 at 09:14 PM. |
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A great writer and a sad loss because of her compassion and her moral integrity.
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She was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Her social focused approach to Sci-Fi and Fantasy added a much needed human dimension that was largely lacking before her.
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The Earthsea books were among the very first books I read in English (I'm not a native speaker) as a teenager - unless I remember it wrong, I first read The Hobbit, and some time later moved on to Earthsea (this was in the 80's - at the time there were very few RPG books that were published in French, and that was a strong incentive to me).
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