I made a drunken bet that I could read at least one fiction book per month for the next year. I think I’d like something with magic, wizards and visionary weirdness, because I seem to enjoy the quasi-fictional hagiographies of yogins/yoginis. Recommendations?pic.twitter.com/1x8Ncba3Y6
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Replying to @misen__
Left hand of darkness if you haven’t read it, top of my list. Also the Wizard of Earthsea series. Also also The Thief trilogy (MW Turner).
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Replying to @_awbery_
Thanks! I’ve ordered the Earthsea series, so Left hand will be next up after that.
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The Earthsea books are very uneven IMO. Written across half a century, they reflect wherever the author was at in her personal evolution (which includes a lot of emotional response to political-cultural developments). At their best, they’re about the best the genre has to offer
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Thanks for the heads up on the unevenness. I’ll be interested to see how the response to political-cultural comes across, now that you’ve mentioned it.
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There’s also some pretty overt borrowing from Tibetan Buddhism and from Taoism in her stuff.
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