> >>* Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy (the first three books only) > >I dunno... they're a little dry and slow-moving. Good, but maybe not great > >as an introduction to fantasy. >Umm... mileage definitely does vary. *boggle* It's the density of the prose, I think. I didn't find them to be an easy read at all. (I enjoyed the first two immensely, the third less so, but they all took effort.) I'd be personally a little wary of using them as a first intro to fantasy, although definitely throw them at him later. >Tehanu destroys everything the initial trilogy worked so hard to >build. The recent stuff is somewhere in between. Maybe I'm projecting bad memories of Tehanu onto the original three. (Haven't read anything past Tehanu yet; not entirely sure if I'm going to.) ---- The time for action is past-- now is the time for senseless bickering! --Ashleigh Brilliant