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Classic Fantasy Stories

By Edited by Farah Mendlesohn

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Twelve Weeks to Death

By Lou Parkes

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A Wizard of Earthsea

By Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Things They Carried

By Tim O'Brien

4 stars
The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides

5 stars

A gripping look at a complicated character in the history of the Modern Era. Cook's third voyage into the Pacific Ocean was markedly different from his first and second, as was the man himself. At times we see the hero of an enlightened age making positive first European contacts with indigenous peoples of the Pacific and those that skirt the Bering Sea. At other times and at others, we see a tyrant, brutalising his men, and razing an island over a stolen goat. This book didn't solve for me which of these two categories the man fits in more. Perhaps deifying a man as representative of the Enlightenment, or demonising him for the disruptive consequences it eventually brought about obfuscates the simple fact that he was just a man, capable of greatness, and of great viciousness.

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Classic Fantasy Stories

Twelve Weeks to Death

A Wizard of Earthsea

The Things They Carried

The Wide Wide Sea

Northcote College

45,600 pages read and 2,227 team points

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