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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3) - Ursula K. Le Guin</h1>
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2018-05-27
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/ursula-k-le-guin/">#ursula k. le guin</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/annals-of-the-western-shore/">#annals of the western shore</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fantasy/">#fantasy</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-5/">#stars:5</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2007/">#published:2007</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68020.Powers">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and,
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inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the
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future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a
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terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has
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ever known. </p>
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★★★★★
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<p>"The story of a boy becoming a man." </p>
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<p>Or "The story of a slave becoming a freeman."</p>
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<p>Or "The story of a man traveling across its country."</p>
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<p>All those could serve as a quick description of the story. And all of them
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would be, at least, a bit wrong.</p>
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<p>Because it's not just one of those. It's all of those. And a bit more.</p>
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<p>At first, I was quite disappointed 'cause the "Powers" at the title are
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mentioned very early and then... nothing. There is a lot of going back and
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forth (a few transitions are a bit weird, like suddenly the story being a
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letter to the protagonist's wife) and you keep thinking "Were the heck is this
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going on?" And then, suddenly, you keep reading a bit more because you want to
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see a thread closed, and then read more, and more, and more... It's quite the
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same feeling I got from <em>Changing Planes</em>, although the story here is way more
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complex (not quite hard, as Changing Planes is a bunch of separate stories
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instead of the continuous story of a slave who runs away, make friends, finds
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his people, in a span of 10 or so years).</p>
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<p>One of the things that Le Guin impresses me is how the way she describes
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things approaches the way <em>Isaac Asimov</em> does: Describes the very minimum
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necessary for the reader to understand why the characters are doing something,
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and let their imagination soar with the rest. It's quite different from
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<em>Arthur C Clarke</em>, which likes to over describe stuff.</p>
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<p>In the end, it was a story that I was mostly uninterested at first but that
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deeply moved me in the very end.</p>
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