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These past mornings been feeling real emotional almost cried just now listening to wizard of earthsea, le guin is so damn good at portraying emotions like fear and doubt
she is one of the all-time greats for sure
I felt this way listening to left hand of darkness. She's so talented!
The earthsea series as a whole is insanely good. The growth of recurring characters over the books, as Le Guin herself went through decades of her life and was able to approach femininity and masculinity through a different lens later, is really special as well.
I would love to have your thoughts on each book, and on the series! I can never have enough thoughts about Earthsea.
Well still need to get to the rest of the series but I loved this first book. My first intro to legion was from a collection of short stories of magic and I loved her style then. The way she handles magic felt special the power of names really bring to mind the power of language of how we try to understand the world around us one that existed before us. I did feel with it being written 50+ years back it probably set the stage for a lot of other magic stories so I was anticipating some twists and turns but just the way she writes personal horror and trauma really spoke to me. When I get around to the rest of the series I'll @ you but so far I liked it
Despite it being less mature and falling into the trope of the standard masculine protag that goes to magic school and is kinda the chosen one, already at the time she was putting a lot of tropes on their heads and deconstructing a lot, but it only gets better!
Like yea I didn't mind the tropey nature of the protag by the end because the story isn't what you expect. He fucks up in a major way and has to heal himself to fix things, his internal feelings are very well described. From what I remember I didn't like the position/writing of women in the first one but the second one is literally centered around women and I found it incredible
Looking forward to the next one then, honestly I kinda like tropes to a degree so I didn't mind so much. When you can feel the feelings it goes beyond described for me and I felt vicarious, real rollercoaster for me.
Yea! As I said, i don't mind the tropes in themselves, but I felt like Le Guin was just starting to play with them in the first book, and having the first book along with all the others makes it so much better to me, because of how it evolves later.
if you like emotional fantasy and you haven't already you should give robin hobb a shot
I see all the audiobooks on the app I use any you recommended for starters?
this is the beginning and is as far as i've actually read as i fell out of the habit not too long after. first one is Assassin's Apprentice. there are several sequel series that follow the same characters if i'm not mistaken, or at least take place in the same world
i read them when i was quite a bit younger so my memory of them is pretty vague but i do recall being struck by how uncommonly front and center the emotions of the main character were, and how out of genre it felt (for lack of a better way to put it). anyway hope you enjoy!
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It's funny how Fitz could be a rather silly character, a bastard prince warrior assassin in a grim dark low fantasy setting with various cool scars and a white streak in his hair, with two ancient magical inheritances that let him be somewhat telepathic and talk to animals.But like you say, it's mostly about his growing maturity, emotional development, interpersonal relationships etc
In my universe we will have an Earthsea renaissance. No Harry Potter for the younglings. Sparrowhawk will show them the way.