I picked up the set a couple of days ago and I'm already far into the second book..... defiantly worth reading. It consists of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, By Ursula K. Le Guin in eighteen sixty eight and on through the seventies.. they are really short books but are pretty good. The shortness has been convient for me here on the farm, Not spending to much time reading until just before bed. I Really do recommend it though... does anyone know if there are more books in this series?
I dont know...shes a great feminist writer though. I had to read wizard of eathsea in my intro to fiction class and really enjoyed it. Ive never been into those kind of novels but that struck me as really great. PS. I LOVE YOUR FOOT SIG ITS AMAZING!
i thought the first book was great and the second two a bit disappointing. but she's written so many more and better and wonerful things. my favorites would have to be 'always coming home' and 'left hand of darkness'. she also wrote 'lath of heavin', and word for world is forest. the science in her science fiction is anthropology. she was an english teacher herself for many years. i wish she could have been mine. she was also the little girl in the house that i think there's a picture of somewhere in some of the printings of ishi in two worlds. her father was a.l. krober who wrote that and was also editor of that american journal of anthropology and archiology during the 1910s and 20s. the leguinne name came from, was i think, some french guy she was married to for a while. i forget the details of that. last i was there she's got a cool website with a number of very interesting links as well as samples of her own thoughts and writings. http://www.ursulakleguin.com/ =^^= .../\...
I don't know about Earthsea, But her book The Dispossessed is superb if you get a chance to read it. I'm just about to start the Left Hand of Darkness in the same series
There are now, I think, five Earthsea novels and a book of short stories. All very good, and the last one of all (The Other Wind) casts a totally different light on the earlier ones and will make you want to go back and read them again.
The first novel in the series, Wizard of Earthsea, was published in 1968. The movie you refer to came out in 2006.
I know that some film was going to be made from these books, so that's probably it. When my big eye thing hit me in 1983/4, this was the last author I was reading, along with SF/fantasy author Gene Wolfe (who lives nearby I hear). I like LeGuin. I've now seen both films of Lathe of Heaven, preferred the first but neither struck me. The books are good. Plenty of ideas.
I too love your sig Cloudflower! I wish that I could have experienced such times. but after college thats going to be my entire life!!
