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The Farthest Shore
by Ursula K. Le Guin
re-read September 2013. Though I've read this book several times, it seemed very apropos after a recent loss in my life. What is life, and what makes life, life? What would you sacrifice to continue life, and how much of a sacrifice would make life not Life any more? Ged is in his purest true form here, and to see Arren grow into himself is magic in it's own right. It's not a happy book, in particular, not sad in the usual sense either, though there is loss; it is more of a haunting book, one you think of often and I'm not sure if I understand it all either. Highly recommended, one of my favorites.
re-read Oct 12, 1014. This is such a sad book. There's such a bleakness and despair, the slow march of death. The dragons like autumn leaves on the wind, but the approach of winter isn't the brief and cold sleep of seasons but something more horrible-- the nuclear winter of man's greed, cruelty, and willingness to destroy everything in order to consume. ***spoiler*** Cob's willingness to trade true life and death for the worse than zombie existence that is destroying all life is so... too close to home. And then wonderful, wonderful Ged spends his life's force to fix it, and comes back so changed. Now nothing is the same or will be the same. But this book is so beautifully written! Love it.
re-read Oct 12, 1014. This is such a sad book. There's such a bleakness and despair, the slow march of death. The dragons like autumn leaves on the wind, but the approach of winter isn't the brief and cold sleep of seasons but something more horrible-- the nuclear winter of man's greed, cruelty, and willingness to destroy everything in order to consume. ***spoiler*** Cob's willingness to trade true life and death for the worse than zombie existence that is destroying all life is so... too close to home. And then wonderful, wonderful Ged spends his life's force to fix it, and comes back so changed. Now nothing is the same or will be the same. But this book is so beautifully written! Love it.