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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

June 30, 2022 by Bothari43 1 Comment

This was a library sci-fi book club pick, and I’m not sure it’s one I would’ve finished otherwise. I know Le Guin is the Grandma of Science Fiction, and I’ve read and enjoyed her before, but this one felt like a Philosophy 101 class and I don’t think I was quite in the mood for it. Urras is the main planet, crowded with haves and have nots and doing the normal things society does, except for an added focus on science and physics. Anarres is […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: archists and anarchists, philosophizing, putting the science in science fiction, Shevek, ursula k le guin

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: archists and anarchists, philosophizing, putting the science in science fiction, Shevek, ursula k le guin ·
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The cover makes the book look more exciting than it is

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

October 10, 2020 by crystalclear 1 Comment

I know that Ursula K. Le Guin is a big name in influential fantasy authors, especially for children’s and YA.  And I’d never read anything by her, so I figured that I should.  A Wizard of Earthsea is the classic hero’s journey with wizards and magic and dragons and all sorts of other stuff.  What more could you ask for?   Apparently a lot.  I was bored!  Partly due to the story, and partly because of the language. It felt stuffy.  I think she was […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr12, cbr12bingo, magic, ursula k le guin, wizards

crystalclear's CBR12 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, cbr12, cbr12bingo, magic, ursula k le guin, wizards ·
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Two pieces of yesterday were in Captain Davidson’s mind when he woke, and he lay looking at them in the darkness for a while.

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin

The Telling by Ursula K Le Guin

July 28, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Word for World is Forest: 3/5 Stars A novella from 1972 and part of the Hainish cycle, this book tells the story of a human colony sent to an arboreal world to strip all the resources from it. They are commanded by a human explorer extraordinaire (who is characterized and portrayed in a very 19th century American sensibility of absolute dominance over the landscape and the people who live there). We come across the colony as they are about to receive a “shipment” of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: the telling, the word for world is forest, ursula k le guin

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:413 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: the telling, the word for world is forest, ursula k le guin ·
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Getting my nerd card revoked

Unlocking the Air by Ursula K. Le Guin

January 31, 2020 by Bothari43 3 Comments

You guuuuuuys, I feel terrible, but I did NOT enjoy this. The writing is, of course, incredible. It’s amazing how quickly Le Guin can set a scene and sketch out a character. Even the stories that were only a few pages long had an incredibly clear snapshot of a person or a setting. She can make a character feel real with only a few paragraphs. However. They’re not real stories, which is what my brain had been expecting. A lot of them are completely aimless […]

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: ursula k le guin

Bothari43's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Short Stories · Tags: ursula k le guin ·
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Well, hell, I still don’t know what the perfect society looks like

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

October 26, 2019 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR11bingo: Award Winner – Nebula Award for Best Novel (1974), Hugo Award for Best Novel (1975), Locus Award for Best Novel (1975) Double Bingo! Horizontal: I Love This, Not My Wheelhouse, Listicle, Rainbow Flag, Award Winner Vertical: Reading the TBR, Science!, History/Schmistory, Award Winner, Summer Read Last year I read my first Le Guin Novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, and couldn’t stop raving about it. On the advice of a fellow Cannonballer, I decided to read The Dispossessed for my Award Winner Square (tip for next […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: anarchism, Award Winner, capitalism, cbr11bingo, KimMiE", political science fiction, ursula k le guin, Utopian fiction

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: anarchism, Award Winner, capitalism, cbr11bingo, KimMiE", political science fiction, ursula k le guin, Utopian fiction ·
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Left wanting more… (and hooray – this completes two bingo lines!)

The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K Le Guin

September 11, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo- Birthday   I had to find a square for my girl Le Guin on this bingo card, and fortunately her birthday was October 21, so that was an easy pick 🙂 I’ve had The Eye of the Heron  on my TBR list for a while, and this seemed like a perfect time to pick it up. I love Le Guin not only because of her writing itself, but for the fact that she is one of the truly great female fantasy/sci-fi writers. Even when […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Birthday!, cbr11bingo, Fiction, the eye of the heron, ursula k le guin

kella's CBR11 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Birthday!, cbr11bingo, Fiction, the eye of the heron, ursula k le guin ·
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