Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2026!]

[CleverNickName]

Being horny in tweed.

You've read my Sherlock/Dr. Who fanfic!

 

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True confession time: I don’t much care for fandoms in general and am happy that folks are finding books/tv shows whatever to enjoy.

My mom once she got a kindle got back into reading and her thing was romantasy, or aliens and shifters with normal humans. This was also the woman that introduced me to Dune and other sci-fi books, along with Lord of the rings before the movies.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

The last three books do end up talking a lot about the School at Roke, but they never make it the sole focus (it's more about questioning the structure of magic in Earthsea).

I’d forgotten that. I didn’t click with the last three; they feel like inelegant retcons to the world. They are of course well-written and thoughtful, Le Guin can hardly do otherwise.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I’d forgotten that. I didn’t click with the last three; they feel like inelegant retcons to the world. They are of course well-written and thoughtful, Le Guin can hardly do otherwise.

I read them back to back after a re-read of the first three. Without a gap of years or decades between the Farthest Shore and Tehanu, it felt like a pretty natural progression to me. The Farthest Shore was already going in a different direction than the first two books and the last three are basically the ramifications of what happened in that book playing out.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

I read them back to back after a re-read of the first three. Without a gap of years or decades between the Farthest Shore and Tehanu, it felt like a pretty natural progression to me.

Might give it a shot back to back then.

The Farthest Shore was already going in a different direction than the first two books and the last three are basically the ramifications of what happened in that book playing out.

It was my least-liked of the OT, by some margin. Honestly Tombs was always my favourite, and I always wanted to see what happened to Tenar after. Marrying some dillweed on Gont wasn’t what I really had in mind. The latter books seem like an attempt to make up for that missed opportunity, but it feels inorganic.

Hot take: the events of The Farthest Shore are Earthsea’s version of the Spellplague, used to justify setting-wide changes and retcons. And I like it just as well.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It was my least-liked of the OT, by some margin. Honestly Tombs was always my favourite, and I always wanted to see what happened to Tenar after. Marrying some dillweed on Gont wasn’t what I really had in mind. The latter books seem like an attempt to make up for that missed opportunity, but it feels inorganic.

To me it felt very much like a middle aged woman writing the story of the messy ordinary (ish) life of a middle aged woman, where things don't progress in a straight line, but zigzag a bit.