Björn recenserade Burna av en annan vind av Ursula K.Le Guin (Övärlden, #5)
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Like with Tehanu, one I didn't read back in the 80s/90s. Obviously. I'm a little bit torn on it as a cap to the Earthsea novelverse (I guess I still need to read Tales?); on the one hand, I love Le Guin's writing, her character work, and how she manages to build tension and expand the mythos without even having an actual villain in the story. On the other hand it's obvious that this story was written over 30+ years without really being planned out - it's less one story than it is a number of stories using the same setting and the same (ish) characters. I love to see some of them get closure, I'm just not sure it's the closure that makes entirely sense of the whole series - there's a throughline, but it makes some pretty odd twists.
But still, yeah, that writing.
Like with Tehanu, one I didn't read back in the 80s/90s. Obviously. I'm a little bit torn on it as a cap to the Earthsea novelverse (I guess I still need to read Tales?); on the one hand, I love Le Guin's writing, her character work, and how she manages to build tension and expand the mythos without even having an actual villain in the story. On the other hand it's obvious that this story was written over 30+ years without really being planned out - it's less one story than it is a number of stories using the same setting and the same (ish) characters. I love to see some of them get closure, I'm just not sure it's the closure that makes entirely sense of the whole series - there's a throughline, but it makes some pretty odd twists.
But still, yeah, that writing.