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A review by hopebrasfield
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.0
Ursula K. Le Guin's stories do things to my brain that high school me would have really loved. I wish I had started reading these sooner. And, of course, there's always a message or messages in the books and maybe she didn't always mean for that to be the case but of course it's the case! It's the same brain doing both the story telling here and the political analysis out there.
I found her writing to be delightful as usual and if I could, I'd carry around this book with me and hand it out like candy.
(quotes below, hidden re potential spoilers--WHICH I WOULD NEVER DO ON PURPOSE!)
"There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty."
"When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are."
"I know nothing. I guess much."
"To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place."
I found her writing to be delightful as usual and if I could, I'd carry around this book with me and hand it out like candy.
(quotes below, hidden re potential spoilers--WHICH I WOULD NEVER DO ON PURPOSE!)
"There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty."
"When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are."
"I know nothing. I guess much."
"To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place."