by Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't know what it is with Ursula Le Guin, but every one of her books, whatever the rate I end up giving the whole, have at least one instance where she emotionally wreaks me, and it's always exquisite. It's like looking at the page and feel like telling her "Damn, that's one beautiful dagger you ...
I picked this up because I've enjoyed some books by Le Guin. I haven't read others in the Hainish series, though, so maybe I didn't get as much out of the book as I could have. I thought it was OK but seemed pretty formulaic, with the beautiful traditional culture full of knowledge being crushed by ...
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
I just reread this book, and I'm not sure what I think about it. I loved the story, and cried at the end, not because it was so sad, because it was a pretty happy ending, but I just felt so much for all the people in the story. Overall it seemed to be an example of what it was about, and maybe it'...
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