tsvallender reviewed The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin
Review of 'The Beginning Place' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I have very mixed feelings towards this book which is, more or less, a coming of age story. We follow Hugh and Irene as they escape from their multitude of worldly worries across the threshold of a strange land.
The tale has moments of beauty, and is heaped with metaphor and meaning, but seems to peter out with very little sense of closure. The climax of the story (if it in fact can be called a climax) seemed almost irrelevant to the rest of the novel, and in the end the message seemed to be we should run away from our problems.
Not a bad book by any means, but definitely a flawed one.
