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finished reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #3)

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Farthest Shore (Paperback, 1984, Bantam) 4 stars

When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out …

This one was messy! I liked some of it (the relationships, the light hearted (although still melodramatic) tone, the boat, the dragons), some of it seemed sketchy (the ethnography-style descriptions of people they meet), and some I think is plain shitty (blindness as a metaphor for naive evil). All in all I had fun, this story is all over the place in so many ways.