The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Farthest Shore is the third book in the Earthsea cycle. In Le Guin's style, the book is not really about the main plot at all. Instead the book is about the small occurrences and discussions that go on around the main plot. Le Guin uses the fact that magic seems to be disappearing in the world to set up the situations for revelations to occur among her characters. The "climax" is more of a mute point and occurs and is over very quickly. It seems almost disappointing until the reader realizes that (in ever so over quoted fashion) it was not the destination that made the book. It was the journey that brought our two heroes there that make the book so wonderful.