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Old 31st March 2007, 01:29 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Re: Earthsea

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Originally Posted by Saltheart View Post
It's true. The epic climax with Ged and his shadow confronting and the Jungian concept of the self worked delightfully. I was tingling all over at that simple, one word confrontation--far more excited than any amount of explosions or killing or coming back from the dead of any fantasy novel. That inner struggle--simple, not externalized, swift--delivered the best climax I've read in any fantasy novel my whole life.

EDIT: Doh. Thought you were explaining the first one, not the fourth, the only one I didn't read.

She's never had any problems finishing novels, IMO, even some other great Science Fiction Authors have
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