Feel like I skimmed this more than the first two Earthsea books, but it was still very good.
User Profile
I'm David, a queer Fennoscottish physicist who never has enough time to read.
Find me also at @davidjamesweir@mementomori.social.
This link opens in a pop-up window
David Weir's books
User Activity
RSS feed Back
David Weir finished reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
David Weir stopped reading Great LGBTQ+ Speeches by Jack Holland
I got about a third of the way through this. It's a great concept but doesn't work for me in this format.
It's a collection of (highly) abridged speeches with an (admitted, but still present) US and anglosphere bias. It was an impulse pick-up from the library's rainbow shelf – the cover is very nice. But it didn't hold my attention (each speech being edited down to one page) and wasn't sufficiently interesting to revisit regularly enough before the library demanded it back...
David Weir started reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
David Weir finished reading The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Content warning allusion to the plot
Felt like this was a quicker read than A WIzard of Earthsea. The ending made sense, but also felt a bit abrupt. Although the main protagonist is a woman, the setting is a patriarchical society and even the 'happy' ending depends on the intervention of a 'good' man.
David Weir started reading The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
David Weir reviewed A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the …
Very enjoyable but of its time
4 stars
I did really enjoy reading this, and will almost certainly go on to read the other Earthsea books.
I came to Earthsea after reading several of Le Guin's Hainish cycle books and short stories, including some of the earliest ones like Rocannon's World. I can see similarities with the earliest Hainish cycle works, from around the same time - an emphasis on male characters, for example - which I am sure would have been handled differently by the same author had she written them later on. But there are still a lot of great ideas here, and it is far more open-minded than most fantasy literature of its era.
David Weir finished reading A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to …
David Weir started reading A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the …
My first time reading the Earthsea books, after enjoying lots of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish works, and other short stories.
David Weir started reading Mathematics made difficult by Carl E. Linderholm
Going to try to finish this time!
David Weir finished reading Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Black women writers series)
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of …
Not an easy read at all, but I'm glad I read it. Another book that I wish I had known about and read a long time ago.
David Weir started reading Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Black women writers series)
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Black women writers series)
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination …
David Weir finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle)
**50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE …
First novel I have read in a while, mostly because I borrowed this on my e-reader to read next to a sleeping kid.
I wish it was easier to borrow good ebooks or buy DRM-free copies. I’d do this much more often.
Also a bit melancholy that I only discovered Ursula K Le Guin’s works in my thirties; I like to think they’d have meant a lot to me if I had read them as a teenager.
David Weir quoted The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle)
**50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE …
To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
— The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle) (49%)
David Weir started reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle)
**50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
Ursula K. Le …