I'm not sure what I would think if I read them all as an adult. I read the first 3 as a child and loved them (although found the first part of A Wizard of Earthsea absolutely terrifying), then re-read them as an adult and appreciated them even more. Tehanu was so different that I didn't appreciate it first time round but I did much more so later. Tehanu seemed to be saying something about the world of Earthsea that didn't get said in the first books. Then The Other Wind came along and was different again - in tone more like the earlier ones but in some ways seeming to contradict what Tehanu had been saying. I suspect when I re-read it later I'll appreciate it more.
"For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after." If I'm remembering it right this is an Earthsea statement about life and death but it doesn't apply quite so well to book series. It seems there are always more words that can be spoken into the after silence and they can change the sense of the earlier ones. Is that bad? Not necessarily. It's unsettling though.
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Date: 2012-01-01 04:49 pm (UTC)"For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after." If I'm remembering it right this is an Earthsea statement about life and death but it doesn't apply quite so well to book series. It seems there are always more words that can be spoken into the after silence and they can change the sense of the earlier ones. Is that bad? Not necessarily. It's unsettling though.