> > > Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy (and the follow-up, Tehanu or whatever it was called) \
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> > Hey, I've read the Earthsea Trilogy through twice and though it ruled. How come I've never heard of this "Tehanu" or whatever it is? Can someone give me any more info?
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> The Earthsea trilogy are among my favorite books. Tehanu is a good book, and worth reading, but it is different from the original Trilogy. In fact, I think it's so different that the title "trilogy" still applies to the Earthsea books, with Tehanu as a sort of companion novel.

That seems like a good assessment. The first time I read Tehanu I didn't like it much at all. I re-read it a year or two ago, and liked it pretty well. It *is* quite different from the original trilogy. One thing that frustrated me both times was that the end of the book didn't really explain things about Therru and didn't have quite the amount of closure I was looking for. But it's still a pretty good read.

As a side note, it seems as though adding a fourth book to a trilogy turns the series into a "cycle"; LeGuin's books are now "the Earthsea cycle". A question for the knowledgeable: is "four or more" the recognized way to define a "cycle" of books, or is it muddier than that?

> I had never heard of it either, until my older brother, an avid sci-fi/fantasy fan who always gives me books as presents, presented it to me soon after it was first published in 1990.

I just happened to see it on the bookshelf at B. Dalton or some such place, several years ago.

Iss "really liked "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "Worlds of Exile and Illusion", too" achar