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Cryptonomicon by Stephenson, Neal
Foreigner by Cherryh, C. J.
Rendezvous with Rama by Clarke, Arthur C.
The Dispossessed by Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Gods Themselves by Asimov, Isaac
The Time Traveler's Wife by Niffenegger, Audrey
Children of Men by James, P. D.
Danger ...
I read 47 in 2009; my favorites were:
The dispossessed
A modest proposal
Candide
Jane Eyre
The war of the worlds
Cry, the beloved country
Day of the triffids
To kill a mockingbird
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Never let me go
I am looking ...
... For SF, have you tried Maureen F. McHugh? I just read my first of hers, Mission Child and enjoyed it. Also try The Disposessed by Ursula K. Le Guin and anything by Sheri S. Tepper. Enjoy the New Reading Year!
... The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle DONE, 1/7/10
6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
7. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
8. Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (I am LONG past due to reread the series)
9. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Ret ...
... is a common SF artifact, the mysterious device that permits immediate communications over unlimited distances. In The Dispossessed , Ursula K. LeGuin's wonderful blending of individual character development with a cautionary utopia, her physicist invents the ansible.
... Le Guin is probably my favourite female SF writer (although more like one of my top SF writers of all) you might like The Dispossessed more than The Left Hand of Darkness it has a couple of very strong female secondary characters but it is told from the PoV of a male character.
Finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Now reading Preternatural by Margaret Wander Bonanno.
... A bit much on the poetry/prayers/singing though.
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The Candidates The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
Extremes by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
The Silent City by Elisabeth Vonarburg
... those government and economic structures in a new light, and some of those can be terrific. I'm thinking Ursula K. LeGuin (The Dispossessed among others), Arkady & Boris Strugatski (Hard to Be a God and some of the other "Noon Universe" series).
Then you've got PKD, who it seemed to me was ...
Currently reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
... Cry, the beloved country, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Perfume, Contact, The english patient, Jane Eyre, The dispossessed , The curious incident of the dog in the night-time and Never let me go.
Some I couldn't stomach: The immoralist, The emigrants, The corrections ...
Ursula le Guin's The Dispossessed includes a little sex here and there, definitely "grown-up" but loving and neither brutal nor sensationalist. It couldn't be described as a love story, though.
The Time Traveller's Wife is very tender, but probably not really sci-fi.
Otherwise, yes, I go ...
... by Michael Chabon
The Fourth World, by Dennis Danvers
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, by Melissa Bank
Dispossessed , by Ursula k. Le Guin
Ahhh! I can't read your review of The Dispossessed ... I bought it in August and picking the right time to read it.
... mind predictable much, as long as scenery or characters or dialogue or three make up for it.
The next on my list is The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin. I have been quite impressed with this author over the years. I have not enjoyed all of her stories that I've tried, but every one ...
... Grimwood
The Separation by Christopher Priest
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
Blood Music by Greg Bear
As I think they are all great novels, and give some breadth to your reading - they are not all space ...
180. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula Le Guin. It is ambiguous. I went in expecting another sci-fi socialist propoganda novel, self righteously smart because aliens are in it. But this isn't that...it's actually smart. All the aliens are actually humans, for one thing, and every ...
Probably time I submitted another one for reviewing. Any and all comments welcome.
the dispossessed by U K Le Guin
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Drags. Far too much social commentary and political theorising with little if any in the way of actual plot. Also the ...
... historical fantasy, not usually my oueve, but pretty good. Vampires are bit inconsistant but the steamships are great.
the dispossessed - one Le Guin's classics. I wasn't too taken to be honest. I like subtle social commentry in my novels, but this just wasn't subtle at all.
Full reviews ...
... the respective sellers the books are en route to me, and I hope they are!
*keeps a steady look at the mailbox*
#67 - The Dispossessed is a favourite of mine, but I have to admit I put it down the first time I tried it. Almost too much of ideas/cause and too little story/character ...
I will nominate:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Gray Apocalypse by James Murdoch
Watchmen by Alan Moore
1984 by George Orwell
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
I will second Anathem.
--BJ
... SO so dangerous shop.
dragonhaven
species imperative
the black company
looking for jake
the myriad
the dispossessed
blood music
fevre dream
and 1 non-fiction, from a massive Waterstones. I was heading to cookbooks but didn't get that far dry store no. 1
No ...
15. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. after the quake by Haruki Murakami
I was working my way very slowly through the Dispossessed for a while. The book wasn't really gripping me, but I think that it was just because I was working too much and didn't have time to read. Once I ...
>5,6, or start with The Dispossessed , which is good.
>6, Jane thanks for those Angela Carter recommendations. Going to check them out right now.
The Dispossessed . Go and read it if you haven't already. 5/5.
... novels, which don't really form a series but are set in the same universe and include a couple of her finest novels (The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness)
Gene Wolfe's Sun series, consisting of three multi-volume novels plus Urth of the New Sun
... I have encountered some classic SF novels as an adult that I was extremely impressed with - A Canticle For Leibowitz and The Dispossessed both spring to mind.
I love The Dispossessed ! Enjoy!
... time to take a break from detective fiction (plus the book is so big that it's hard to read in bed). I'm going to start The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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The Catcher in the Rye
Molloy
Memoirs of Hadrien
The Old Man and the Sea
Casino Royale
Fear of Flying
The Dispossessed
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Interview with the Vampire
Delta Venus
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Confedera ...
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4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Faramir from Lord of the rings and Shevek from The Dispossessed .
5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Perfume by Pa ...
... don't think the answer is necessarily G.K. Chesterton. When I want good science fiction, it is Ursula K. LeGuin; start with The Dispossessed . If you want something in the way of a character study, I just finished Edith Wharton's The Touchstone which was wonderfully executed. For fantasy, ...
... that I am taking to South America:
*A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
*Seventeen and J by Kenzaburo Oe
*The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
And possibly, if I'm feeling really ambitious, I'll also bring:
*After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
*The Yiddish Poli ...
... laughing for the last half-hour when I remembered the line "I run a tight ship."
Some others: On My Way to Paradise, The Dispossessed , or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. And, though you if you have a heart, you won't be thanking me for this, Odd Thomas. Still not over it. Anything by Barbara ...
#162, Carolyn (I hope): I loved The Dispossessed as well, although it did not quite grab me the way The Left Hand of Darkness did. It's another in her exploration of social and gender issues, written about the same time as The Left Hand of Darkness. I knew about her mother and have always ...
... a collection of very thought provoking essays. I also have on hand (lent to me by my older son who highly recommends it) The Dispossessed which I hope to read this year.
#161 cameling
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoy it--be sure to take note of the meaning of the term shifgre ...
The Dispossessed
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed both deserve to be included, I believe--UKL made such a difference in introducing social science into SF (not the first to do so, I'm sure, but the first to take it seriously?), not to mention gender issues and Taoism, and we even get to see the ...
... favorites will always be the first three Earthsea books, followed extremely closely by The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed .
I haven't seen a vote for The Left Hand of Darkness. While The Dispossessed is an easier read, I thought LHoD was deeper and more significant in terms of introducing social science to SF. I also don't see The Book of the New Sun, which if I remember correctly just sneaks by the time ...
... enjoy it. It was her first book though, and you could tell. It didn't have much of thought provoking themes one finds in The Dispossessed or The Word for World is Forest. Rather, it's just plain fun to read! It's a fantasy/science fiction adventure in which we see someone from a very ...
Only ten:
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Nova by Samuel Delany
The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (I didn't like Childhood's End...)
The Fore ...
76- The dispossessed
Loved it! What a great book! Often, I think I mostly like the 'idea' or potential of sci-fi rather than the sci-fi itself. But this story had intelligent, well-rounded characters and they lead their lives with courage, conviction and ideals. Some random thoughts:
-The ...
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Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1968)
Pavane by Keith Roberts (1969)
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg (1972)
The Disposessed by Ursula Le Guin (1974)
Bring The Jubilee by Ward Moore (1955)
What I have come up with:
Dune , by Frank Herbert
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Star Maker Olaf Stapledon
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
I am Legend by Richard Matheson
... Larry Niven (1970)
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C Clarke (1972)
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe (1972)
The Dispossessed , Ursula K Le Guin (1974)
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K Dick (1977)
I think both Rendezvous with Rama and Ringworld are unsatisfactory novels, but ...
... by John Brunner
Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
The Dispossessed Galactic Patrol by E. E. "Doc" Smith
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
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Stranger in a strange land;
Day of the dolphin;
Do androids dream of electric sheep;
Slaughter-house five;
The dispossessed **;
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy**;
Legend;
The handmaid's tale**;
Contact**;
Watchmen;
The discovery of heaven;
The drowned ...
... Graham Joyce, Gene Wolfe or Carol Emshwiller at all before. I've read Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed and the Earthsea books were among my favourite as a child. I must admit before looking on LT I hadn't realised that she's written so much.
Started The dispossessed this morning. Never heard of that one before becoming aware of the list, but the description makes it sound like a good sci-fi read.
... Aldiss: Helliconia Winter
6. Arkadi & Boris Strugatski: Piknik na obotšine (in Finnish)
7. Ursula Le Guin: The Dispossessed (in Finnish)
8. Karel Capek: Válka s mloky (in Finnish)
9. Doris Lessing: Shikasta (in Finnish)
I've read the classics, Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed . I found them interesting intellectually, but they didn't capture me. Oh, and I've read Earthsea, of course. But so long ago that I don't remember it. That might be worth a reread...
#31
Le Guin is quite a variable author for me. The Dispossessed and Lathe of Heaven are among my favourite SF novels, but Left Hand of Darkness... It's currently one of the top ten recommended novels in the "newcomer to SF list", but I cannot see why at all - the three gender idea was okay, ...
... in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum (not fiction but a wonderful book about race and racism and how if affects teens)
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Yes, I have a special place in my heart for coming of age lesbian stories.
... give such a new reader some info with my selections, in order to enable her to choose:
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed : trust and betrayal, gender issues; introduction of social science into SF.
The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man: early classics with ...
... - Arthur C. Clarke
Undertow - Elizabeth Bear
Carnival - Elizabeth Bear
The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Algebraist - Iain M. Banks
Welcome Chaos - Kate Wilhelm
The Fresco - Sheri ...
#43
I can't believe I forgot The Dispossessed and Old Man's War.
... easily could have been a much longer book that explored Genly's different quests. I liked it. I just wanted more.
I have The Dispossessed at home. I will likely read that soon.
... Grimwood
The Separation by Christopher Priest
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
Blood Music by Greg Bear
... look back and see how you were before it, and how you were afterward. for me, The Lovely Bones, On My Way to Paradise, The Dispossessed , and 1984 were such turning points; they were like my Renaissance, American (& French) Revolutions, Industrial Revolution, and World Wars. you read them ...
... the following works were also published in "round corner edition":
*Flowers for Algernon
*Gateway
*Lord of Light
*The Dispossessed
*The Forever War
*The Sirens of Titan
*The Stars My Destination
My question is twofold. Firstly does anyone know if there were any other works ...
... I think I read the Hainish novels first, then Left Hand of Darkness when it came out and wowed everyone, and then The Dispossessed . Perhaps my favorite one of her SF works, however, is Always Coming Home, which is one of her two that are set on earth and not at all connected to the ...
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That's what I'm doing with the Hainish cycle. I feel safer reading them that way, plus I just got done reading The Dispossessed , which is the first if you read them chronologically. Always a bonus!
... seems to be no set order for the books. I think Wikipedia ordered them in such a way that they are chronological, with The Dispossessed being the earliest book, but I think they can be read in any order you so please.
Thanks for the advice on the Foundation trilogy. I like series ...
... that site, the book to begin with is Planet of Exile. According to LT, begin with Rocannon's World and Wikipedia claims The Dispossessed is the best book.
I think I'm going to pop over to the Science Fiction Fans group and ask them. Someone ought to know...
I noticed her review. Just a heads up, The Left Hand of Darkness is the last book in the Hainish Cycle. The Dispossessed is the first. I'm fairly certain they don't need to be read in order (I only noticed it because I happened to wiki The Dispossessed to try and figure out a little bit of what ...
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As for my LeGuin read, I assume you're talking about The Dispossessed . I quite liked it, though it was a little difficult to read and very much political. It definitely warrants a reread though. I know I didn't get all out of ...
... Nebula, and only three authors (I think) have done it more than once. Le Guin was one with The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed . She's also got maybe seven or so other science fiction books, some of them quite good.
She's definitely a science fiction presence in addition to ...
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
Rating: 4/5
MILD SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW!!!
To start off, this book can be very confusing if you don't understand a few key ...
I'm just finishing up The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin and then plan to tackle Asimov's Foundation series. That'll be my March project.
... him and his books for as long as I am able to. That said, I tend to read a little bit of everything. I'm currently reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, a science fiction book. I love science fiction. I also love fantasy, crime, thriller, mystery (another favorite of mine is Agatha ...
The Dispossessed from RebeccaAnn's library would be my choice. I am trying to read more in the science fiction/fantasy genre's this year.
... writer, though of course there are certainly common themes running through her different universes. I would also recommend The Dispossessed - right now I'm trying to get around to reading The Left Hand of Darkness before the library tries to steal it back from me!
Many of Ursula K. LeGuin's science fiction books are explorations of social sciences: The Dispossessed , The Left Hand of Darkness, Rocannon's World, and so on.
A fair number of Heinlein's books deal with sciences other than physics, although they tend to be fairly political - Assig ...
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.
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I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler (AKA Xenogenesis trilogy)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Nova by Samuel Delany
Quarantine by Greg Egan
Re ...
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Return to the Whorl by Gene Wolfe
The Telling by Ursula K Leguin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Leguin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Leguin
Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis
Perelandra by CS Lewis
That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis
The Demolished Man by Alfie ...
... add a few I think is good enough -
The Skinner by Neal Asher
Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (1 of 3)
The Dispossessed by Le Guin
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
When gravity fails by Georg Alec Effinger (1 of 3)
Hellburner by C.J. Cherryh (2 of 2)
Trip ...
... me!) atmosphere she was born to. I have Left hand of Darkness slated to read for my 999 fantasy category and I also own The Dispossessed and The Wizard of Earthsea which I may have to add to that challenge after all these comments. I loved reading all your comments about them--it makes ...
I think I need to go back and read The Left Hand of Darkness again. Somehow I didn't get much out of it!! The Dispossessed is on my tbr pile and I'll certainly keep a look out for some of the other things mentioned here.
#84: Gotcha. I keep forgetting about the time lag. It was indeed ground-breaking at the time it came out, as was The Dispossessed .
I still love the book (LHOD)for it's magnificent journey across the ice, and have from the day I read it, taken LeGuin's definitions of joy as opposed to ...
... mentioned they LIKE dystopias, and for an excellent example which is not, however, gender-driven, try Ursula LeGuin's THe Dispossessed . Joyce, re: your recommendation of leGuin's Left Hand of Darkness in message 71, you probably read it as I did, shortly after it was originally published. ...
... there.
I like most, though not all, LeGuin. I would definitely give The Left Hand of Darkness a try and then The Dispossessed ...they're very good. Some people love The Lathe of Heaven; I merely enjoyed it. I enjoyed Rocannon's World and Planet of Exile. However, I read ...
Oh yes, The Left Hand of Darkness is wonderful. I like The Dispossessed but it might seem a bit polemical for first-time readers.
Oh, I would definitely recommend The Dispossessed first, because that is my favorite book of hers, but her most famous is The Left Hand of Darkness. But really, I haven't read anything by her that I didn't love.
... by David Remnick (ed)
Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
By the Sea - by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Thanks!
#74: Now, you've got me puzzled, because the ULeG title that best fits that description is The Disposessed , except that the main protagonist is male and the society at question was anarchist rather than socialist.
You can be put off anything if it is exaggerated enough. Whether that position ...
... The Alchemy of Stone Finished Jan. 28
iii. Frankenstein Finished Mar 10
iv. Primary Inversion Finished Mar 21
v. The Dispossesed Finished April 21
vi. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever Finished May 20
vii. Brown Girl In The Ring Finished July 6
viii. The Handmaid's Tale Finished Augus ...
... I recommend the Foreigner books. The 9 (soon 10, to be 12) of them will last some time, at circa 400 pages each.
Or, The Dispossessed . Takes some time to parse, very good book, IMHO.
Or something by G G Kay, like Lions of Al-Rassan, or the Sarantine Mosaic.
On another take - the ...
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My offerings:
No Blade of Grass by John Chrisopher
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
I'm blank! I know there are others, but...
... Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
4. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. 1984: A Novel by George Orwell
7. All The King's Men by Warren Robert Penn
All ...
Interesting! I read some interviews with SD when I was writing an article about The Dispossessed , which he had commented on. As I remember he had some pretty interesting things to say on a wide range of topics. I'll see if I can find the box all that stuff was in. Won't be the next couple of ...
IV. FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION
1. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
3. Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey DONE, 8/13/09
4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova DONE, 12/10/09
5. Dune by Frank Herbert
6. The Mists of ...
... social science to science fiction, and added a strong emphasis on character. Some of her best characters are Shevek in The Dispossessed , Estraven in The Left Hand of Darkness, and Ged and Tenar in the Earthsea books.
Strong agreement, by the way, on Guy Kay.
... read, sussabmax. Another one for the wish list. By the way, your comment in message 9 inspired me to pick up a copy of The Dispossessed at a secondhand bookstore recently...
... could be so funny or that he was so erudite or fascinated with exploration or had so many qualms about democracy.
75. The Dispossessed
I have a soft spot for Le Guin's sci-fi-as-anthropology/sociology approach, though I can admit it can seem a bit heavy handed at times. Not here. Simpl ...
... reading, and have not been recommended already throughout this thread:
Religion - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Politics - The Dispossessed
Philosophy - Star Maker
Post-Apocalypse - I Am Legend
Military Fiction - Forever War
Some recommendations have already been given about several ...
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - finished 9/29/08
This is one I'd meant to read for ages, since it's regarded as a classic work of intelligent science fiction. I think one of Le Guin's ...
I've started The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, inspired by the 'science fiction written by women' thread. I'm finding it hard to get into at the monent, but that might be because I started reading it on London night bus at 3 o'clock this morning, with a drunken boyfriend snoring on my ...
After reading The Dispossessed yet again recently, it amuses me to hear Le Guin called a "soft sf" writer. It's about physics! Sure, there is quite a bit of anthropology and civics, but you don't get much harder science than physics. I love the quote above, richardderus!
My brother once spotted the Dispossessed under anarchy.
there are only three that i won't live without. in no order:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
... Dragon – Peter F. Hamilton
Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison
Dune - Frank Herbert
Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula Le Guin
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
A Canticle For Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller Jnr
Gate ...
... Dick - Ubik (1969)
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic (1971)
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (1974)
John Brunner - The Shockwave Rider (1975)
Christopher Priest - A Dream Of Wessex (1977)
Richard Cowper - The White Bird Of Kinship ...
...
Suzy McKee Charnas - Walk to the End of the World
M. John Harrison - The Centauri Device
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
Christopher Priest - Inverted World
J.G. Ballard - High-Rise
Barry N. Malzberg - Galaxies
Joanna Russ - The Female Man
Bob Shaw - Orbitsv ...
... stylist.I didn't say she was bad. I agree with Medillia 12 that she is merely adequate in that regard. There are moments in The Disposessed where she is, as I've said, downright flat -overused adjectives in the space of three pages,etc., etc. I don't need lush, although lush would have helped in ...
#48 seitherin: Granted that The Dispossessed is not her best book, LeGuin chose to write about socially relevant topics under the guise of fantasy and science fiction. It was at the beginning of the 'new wave' of sf/fantasy writing that left ray guns and alternate universes, NAFAL drives and all ...
Finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. I understand why the people who really like this book really like this book. Unfortunately, for me, it was just this side of unbearably dull. Sociopolitical treatises just aren't my cup of tea. I've read accounting textbooks that were more ...
I finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. I understand why the people who really like this book really like this book. Unfortunately, for me, it was just this side of unbearably dull. Sociopolitical treatises just aren't my cup of tea. I've read accounting textbooks that were more ...
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - I understand why the people who really like this book really like this book. Unfortunately, for me, it was just this side of unbearably dull. I've read textbooks that were more engaging than this book was.
Total books read: 37
I'm about to start The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I just finished The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick. I'm about to start The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Well, after a bit of a sojourn into fantasy territory I have come back to science fiction with
The Dispossessed bu Ursula Le Guin which somehow I had never read before, and The Explorers by C.M. Kornbluth which was really quite good.
46. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin - I did like this a lot. I need to think about it a bit before posting a review.
Well, Le Guin's most notable books are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed ; also the fantasy series beginning with The Wizard of Earthsea (more or less in my mind, YA). They are as good a place as any to start. I have also enjoyed her essays and her poetry.
... stories. The only one I've read is "New Spring." But maybe I'll skip the Goodkind entry.
Next I am going to start The Dispossessed , which I am expecting to be really good. We'll see.
So, what did you think about The Dispossessed ?
... organ
Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Ch ...
Oh, how I love The Dispossessed ! I hope you enjoy it!
... Nos. 67 and 68
Starting No. 69: Ursula K. Le Guin 's The Dispossessed .
I bought this when I was back in the UK as another one in the Hainish cycle. I think it was the next one she wrote after the three in Worlds of Exile ...
... reason it's easier to write about dystopias than it is to write about utopias?)
The only examples I can think of are:
the dispossessed by ursula k. le giun
the stainless steel rat gets drafted by harry harrison
the city not long after by pat murphy
and it might be argued that ...
... M. Miller Jr.
Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuinn
Lucifer’s Hammer by sussabmax in Science Fiction Fans : 5 most reread sci-fi books/authors (May 23, 2008, 10:16am)... I do re-read, it tends to be sf.
1. Anything by Sheri S. Tepper, but especially The Gate to Women's Country
2. The Dispossessed , and others by Ursula K. Le Guin
3. Dune
4. Califia's Daughters by Leigh Richardson
5. I have been thinking about re-reading Snow Crash ...
Finished reading The Dispossessed last night, a far better book than LHoD. Great story idea, and it presents a idea worth thinking about every couple of pages, which is what I really like in an SF book. Definitely a must-read book.
...
Not that I am trying to convince you to like a book that you didn't enjoy, just another perspective.
I think you'll like The Dispossessed better, as they two societies represented in this book are much more closely related, and they are very aware that their ways of life are incredibly ...
... I could get from the book, and that could have been easily fixed with something as simple as chapter labels.
I hope that The Dispossessed proves better, got it recently after an online purchase.
... of Darkness a long time ago and just couldn't get into it, but maybe I should give it another shot. Or maybe I should try The Dispossessed first instead. It is kinda embarrassing that I've never read any of her books!
... first thought on reading your list, particularly The Left Hand of Darkness, which is probably her most famous book, and The Dispossessed , which is one of my favorite books ever.
I have only read one of Chris Moriarty's books (Spin State), but I really enjoyed that.
... Poul Anderson
Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
eta: And I just noticed that this purchase took my total number of books to over 600 :D
If you are looking for suggestions on another great Le Guin book, The Dispossessed is one of my favorite books ever. But, I haven't read anything by her that I haven't liked.
Oh, and you can count books anyway you like. Sometimes I count books bound together as one book, sometimes as two. ...
Interesting one, particularly as it seems that everyone who likes The Dispossessed also likes The Left Hand of Darkness and vice versa.
I took weeks to read The Left Hand of Darkness, found it extremely heavy-going and never really properly cared for the characters.
The Dispossessed , ...
... Of her SFish works I'd recommend Left hand of darkness, Worlds of Exile and Illusion, and Four ways to forgiveness.
Dispossessed is very good but quite a tome (and not by being a voluminous book but by being hard to chew, sometimes).
... of times, but here they are anyway:
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Anything by Greg Bear
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
If you read and like Left hand of Darkness & Dispossessed you should very probably enjoy the rest of her SF works as well; most of her stories are collected in in different volumes, but I'd like to recommend Four ways to forgiving and Birthday of the world, plus Worlds of exile and ...
... on aonther thread, i.e. what would you recommend to someone who wanted an SF recommendation? I had these three, plus The Dispossessed , which you said your housemate already gave you, and Ender's Game on mine. TGWC, Dune and The Dispossessed are just three of my all time favorite books, ...
... these are my top 5 to recommend:
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
something by Greg Bear
The top three are just my favorite books, and the next two ( ...
... these authors to my housemate and I now have a selection of books from her shelves including The Left Hand Of Darkness, The Dispossessed and The Sirens Of Titan and she's trying to find her collection of Octavia Butler novels for me.
My housemate deals with science ethics at work and ...
My quarterly trip to Dark Star Books in Yellow Springs, OH yielded:
The Disposessed by Ursula Le Guin
Taltos by Steven Brust
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook
Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl and C.M ...
#11 - is it Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed ?
If so then I'm gonna steal the first line that Booksloth just posted.....no need to let a good line go to waste. Plus its a stumper to me. ;-)
... her hainish books, such as The Left Hand of Darkness, Four ways to forgiveness, Worlds of exile and illusion and The dispossessed , and maybe Birthday of the world. The theme of 'power' is so much more developed in those books.
Yes, the jump from The Dispossessed to Earthsea is quite big, however you see it, and I can understand your reaction.
The problem with Tehanu is not in the book itself, or in the writing, but in that it tries to alter or bend Earthsea as she originally wrote it, so to be more acceptable from ...
I did a fair amount of re-reading favorites last year, too.
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Of the new reads for this year, these are the ones in running to ...
I've been on an Ursula K. LeGuin kick ever since reading The Dispossessed right at the end of 2007. So I've decided to tackle the Earthsea series, since many people seem to love that, as part of my 888 Challenge (YA literature). So far this year I have read A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthse ...
... of a Salesman
3 Dangling Man
4 For Whom the Bell Tolls
5 The Dispossesed Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
7 Desolation Angels
8 The Last Temptation of Christ
I just finished my first Ursula K. LeGuin - The Dispossessed , after having heard about her through shadowing this group!
I enjoyed it and thought there were some thought-provoking ideas in it. I also liked how, unlike a lot of dystopia novels that present one society as totally bad and ...
... Ursula K. Le Guin, after being constantly intrigued by the mentions of her on LT as a "feminist sci-fi" writer. I read The Dispossessed , since I am also a fan of those utopia/dystopia novels. I enjoyed it and thought there were some thought-provoking ideas in it. I also liked how, unlike ...
I've just completed The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin and found it a very neat take on the utopia/dystopia genre. I notice that it is one of the most commonly shared novels in this group. Anyone else read it and interested in talking about it?
(68) The Dispossessed by Ursuala K. LeGuin
(68) The Dispossessed by Ursuala K. LeGuin
The fist time I read The Dispossessed I put it down during what ended up to two years, I think, before I picked it up again. And then I started at the beginning, determined to get through the tough spot.
I think she was too hard on the lead character (don't even remember his name, hell, it's 8:35 ...
... target="_blank">INTJ Writers?
One person thinks Ursula K. LeGuin (The Dispossessed , The Lathe of Heaven, etc.) is INTJ. Since she's one of my favourite writers, I'd love to think she's one of us.
... (drat, no touchstone again)
The Ægypt (Aegypt) tetralogy by John Crowley
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Red Shift by Alan Garner
But some people might dispute whether the Ægypt series (which can be seen as "fiction with a ...
... M. Miller Jr. (123)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (146)
The stars my destination by Alfred Bester (97)
The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (108)
The forever war by Joe Haldeman (98)
Ringworld by Larry Niven (115)
(Note, only the Author Touchstone for Is ...
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Well, The Dispossessed does have quite a bit of physics, too. There is a lot of politics, I grant you, and it is one of the most intriguing parts of the story, but it is really the background for the main story, which is about physics.
... science' hard SF candidates:
Dune
Starship Troopers (lots of hard science, too)
Stranger In a Strange Land
The Dispossessed
anything by Cherryh
Foundation
The main themes of all these are religion/history/politics. With rivets.
I've also noticed that all of these ...
... and it will let you compare the selected book to other books in whatever categories Amazon has it listed in.
Le Guin's The Dispossessed , for example, has ~116k words, and Amazon says that only 18% have more words in all categories, compared to 22% in Literature & Fiction and 31% in Science F ...
... Men by P.D. James (I still haven't seen the movie, so its all new to me)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Kallocain by Karin Boye
Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
...
Hard to say--I loved The Dispossessed , but that was a re-read, so that doesn't seem fair to the new books. Of the new books, What the Dead Know was probably my favorite. Both were intensely satisfying reads, although WTDK will probably never be as satisfying again, since part of the appeal ...
... can get it in time since the local English science fiction pusher dosn't have it.
I would second Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed . It's the only Hainish cycle book I have I haven't been able to work my way through, so it would be great to get 'forced'.
Trying to come up with some ...
OK OK OK!
I'll admit The Dispossessed is a tough one if you don't enjoy her books.
The Left Hand of Darkness is quite slim, though, and could be read without trying to interpret this or that into something or the other while at the same time offering something for those of us who enjoy ...
I wonder if LeGuin's The Dispossessed qualifies as a distopia. It's really (IMHO) about the need for a utopia to continually reinvent itself.
... New Sun. Almost any Wolfe is pretty wonderful, including the books of the long sun and short sun. A few others:
UKL's The Dispossessed . Her other SF masterwork besides The Left Hand of Darkness
Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man
I agree with the ...
I hope you find Changing Planes! I've not seen The Dispossessed myself (Le Guin's books are hard to find locally), but I'll keep this in mind if I come across it. Thanks too!
I have never heard of this Le Guin book, so thank you for the recommendation! I love Le Guin, and just recently re-read The Dispossessed , which is one of my favorite books ever.
50. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Excellent, excellent book. This was a re-read, so I knew I would love it, but I had forgotten how wonderful it is, and how truly subversive it is. I still want to live on Anarres, though. This book really made me think, and was totally ...
Finished The Dispossessed (enjoyed it) on a plane ride home , so now working on finishing The Dante Club and Immodest Proposals. Tenn's IP is what I read in bed, so that one may take a while.
I also pulled On her own ground : The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles ...
... moved this book and Pattern Recognition into a more current time frame.
Edited to add: I am currently re-reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, and loving it, just like I did the last 2 or 3 times I read it. I am doing a lot of re-reading this year, it seems.
... to, and I never managed to get all the way through Dhalgren or Little, Big.
My biggest complaints are: where is The Dispossessed ? Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang? One Gene Wolfe is not enough; definitely should also include The Fifth Head of Cerberus. No Clifford Simak? ...
... I think the most common issue for me is embarrassment in how the characters behave. As an example; first time I read The Dispossessed I had to put the book away for a while to let the embarrassment sink away.
... Fiction:
The Book of the New Sun and The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
...
I like several of the books already mentioned (especially The Dispossessed ), but here are a couple of other good post-apocalyptics:
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper--one of my favorite books ever. I just re-read it a few months ago, and I would have been happy to re-read ...
The Dispossessed : An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin is much better than any of Atwood's dry patter in my humble opinion. (though i did enjoy A Handmaid's Tale when i was in Grade 9 -- mostly for the titillating sex scenes, though surely that was not her intent, but adolescent ...
... or so, but I haven't gotten there yet. I was interested to see only one LeGuin, since it seems that you like social SF. The Dispossessed is truly wonderful. Like you, I've read more classics than modern SF; like you, I'm reading more different things now, and SF is not as big a part of my ...
... in the opening passage, is very powerful. There are an awful lot of creative things going on in this book, and also in The Dispossessed .
I do have to agree, however, with the complaint that UKL often falls victim to unrelieved earnestness. I think she gets past this in her more recent ...
... more literary stuff, e.g., I like a lot of Ursula LeGuin, both her fantasy (Earthsea) and SF (Left hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed ). Favorite fantasist is prolly Guy G Kay, esp. Tigana ands Lions. Also loved Gene Wolfe's recent two-vol fantasy The Wizard and The Knight. ...
... first place.
Years of Rice and Salt and The Left Hand of Darkness are both ones I will read soon, I just finished The Dispossessed and am excited to find new (to me) authors.
I second the choice of Ursula K LeGuin. The Earthsea Cycle is a classic, but so is her more adult books The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, and the other books in the Hainish cycle.
Also I'd suggest reading, or at least trying, Guy Gavriel Kay. Of those I've read so far T ...
... perspectives she has explored while 'grounding' it on this world.
Otherwise, I agree with Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed
Yes, I agree with andyl, both The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed were excellent, (and both won the Hugh and the Nebula--a rare feat to be accomplished twice by an author), although it's been well over 20 years ago since I read them.
(BTW, I seem to remember reading recently that ...
I'd agree with andyl, The Left Hand of Darkness or The Dispossessed are probably her best novels. Earthsea is an enjoyable sequence of books, especially the initial trilogy - imagine a well-written, much more intelligent Harry Potter set in an imagined world. The LHoD and TD are more detailed ...
Earthsea is more popular but I would say that either The Left Hand Of Darkness or The Dispossessed are in with a shout of being her best work. Both won both the Hugo and Nebula.
Incidentally the original novella of The World For Word Is Forest won the Hugo as well and was shortlisted for the N ...
... of it this year, especially seeing as how I keep buying new books :) These are the ones I'm hoping to get through soon:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Koran
Bridging the Gap by Rondalyn Varney Whitney (started reading)
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Chicken Soup for the Wr ...
It's a while since I read The Dispossessed but I think at one point in the novel Anarres is mentioned as a Utopia.
#23 - haven't read any Adam Roberts. For some reason, I thought he was quite pulpy - misleading covers probably. Checking out Salt I found his website, where it mentions ...
U. K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed seems to have no classes on Anarres. I thought it was a utopia on my first two reads, but now I don't think so.
Anarres and Urras, from The Dispossessed . I'd like to see how they've evolved over another hundred years of open communication, especially the communal one.
I just got The Dispossessed in the mail.
I loved that book. Another good one by Ursula K. Le Guin was The Dispossessed . I really got into both of those books.
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45. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - finished 9/29/08
This is one I'd meant to read for ages, since it's regarded as a classic work of intelligent science fiction. I think one of Le Guin's ...
