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... I'd be interested to hear whether or not you agree when you've finished it.
And I can see perhaps see the similarity to Changing Planes, too, now that you mention it. If you liked Ursula Le Guin's short stories/essays, try a lesser known book of hers called Changing Planes: Armchair Travel for the Mind which is a fantastic collection of stories about different planets, all of which are incredibly thought provoking and revealing. I fell in love with her all ... I enjoyed Changing Planes as well--kept it as my bathtub book for a month or so, to be read a chapter at a time during deep bubble baths. If you liked this so much, be sure to look for Le Guin's Always Coming Home, a full novel set in a post-apocalyptic Oregon, with much the same atmosphere. I'm adding Changing Planes to the wishNotebook; it sounds great! I'd also like to second Ronincats recommendation of Bellwether; it's my favorite Willis after Doomsday Book. I re-read Bellwether every year. It never fails to cheer me up. #72
Thanks, I'm going to go and read Dragonsbane next I think :)
45. Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin 214 pages
When someone discovers how to 'change planes' while waiting in an airport for a flight, a whole universe of possibilities is opened up. This tells the ... ... by Anne McCaffrey
43. World War Z by Max Brooks (reread)
44. Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
45. Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
46. Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
47. The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
48. The Marsh King's Daughter by Elizabeth Chadwic ... ... by Terry Brooks
The Ruby Knight by David Eddings
Von Bek by Michael Moorcock
Hawkmoon by Michael Moorcock
Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Queen of Subtleties by Suzannah Dunn
The Plantagenet Prelude by Jean Plaidy
Daughters of the Grail by Elizabeth Chadwick
T ... #11 - Changing Planes By Ursula K. Le Guin How could I forget Changing Planes!!!
... library, I think--cheaper that way, anyway. Or, I could buy online, but I am trying to cut back on my buying.
I read Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin recently. I was glad to find something of hers I hadn't read besides the Earthsea books. One of these days, I will have to get ... 64. Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Interesting little book about changing planes (of existence) while waiting to change airplanes in noisy, boring difficult airports (I know, that was redundant). This was basically a bunch of short descriptions of alternate human societies, both ... A Fisherman of the Inland Seaby Ursula K. Le Guin
Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Leguin
Cold Harbour by Jack Higgins
Eye of the Storm by Jack Higgins
beatles1964 There's a very good Ursula Le Guin short story in her Changing Planes collection about a team of anthologists who visit a colony and discover survivors having reverted back to very basic and schizophrenic type behaviour with no real form of language anymore. But they were very very happy.
The ... ... Rowling
13. Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
15. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
16. Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
17. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
18. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
... ... )
Orsinian Tales by Le Guin
(11 votes)
The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales by Kipling
(9 votes)
Changing Planes by Le Guin
Tales of the Dying Earth by Vance
(8 votes)
Jhereg by Brust
(7 votes) Still sick at home, so just finished Changing Planes, a short story collection by Ursula K. LeGuin, which I quite enjoyed. Still sick, so just finished Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin as my no. 15. I was a bit worried in the beginning of this challenge as I was lagging behind, but it turns out I'm making excellent progress!
I thought Changing Planes was an enjoyable read. Ursula K. Le Guin has a very ... ... for me to finish the 600 pages, but it isn't one of my all time favorites. Still, one classic down :)
I'm now reading Changing planes by Ursula K. Le Guin which is okay so far. ... my all time favorite sci-fi books. I feel like I'll get something new from it each time I read it.
I also really enjoyed Changing Planes, and I'm surprised it hasn't come up here yet. Actually, looking at the numbers, it's not really the surprising. 458 copies in LT, as opposed to 3209 for A W ... ... other people's suggestions here.
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
The Line Between ... ... and Into a dark realm because they were there and I've read some of the others. Then I "borrowed" from my parents Changing planes, Tales of known space and Maurice
kept me occupied for the train journey back home. ... more background explanation than you can get from this book of short stories. Just my humble thoughts.
Just finished changing planes short and easy. Good reading on a train, but not specially noteworthy. A bit out there but Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin is very worth reading, more a collection of related short stories than a novel though. ... Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant
4. Changing Planes, by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. The Wood Wife, by Terri Windling
And I just have to mention this runner-up: High Lonesome, by Joyce Carol Oates ... ... the Brothers Grim to Ursula K. Le Guin uses alternate realities to explore issues of contemporary concern. So for example Changing Planes by Le Guin uses the airport as a gateway to explore other worlds in a series of short stories, dealing with issues such a scientific hubris, colonialism, ... 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!
... against a fascinating backdrop. I'd really love to revisit this desert and the characters I've grown to love!
27. Changing Planes, by Ursula K. Le Guin
This is my first book by Ursula K. Le Guin, and I'm very pleased at this introduction. I'd found this in a bargain stack, so ... I just finished Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin yesterday, and The Wood Wife by Terri Windling the other day. Loved both of them!
... and then you find that their 'always' means a generation or two, or a century or two, at most a millennium or two."
- Changing Planes, by Ursula K. Le Guin
From "Seasons of the Ansarac" in Changing Planes, by Ursula K. Le Guin:
People are always telling you that "we have always done thus," and then you find that their "always" means a generation or two, or a century or two, at most a millennium or two. Cultural ways and habits are blips ... Yesterday, I found Ursula K. Le Guin's Changing Planes in a stack of bargain books at a popular local bookstore chain. It's a hardcover former library copy in very good condition, and I got it dirt-cheap. I've started reading it, and am so happy about the discovery. A very lucky find!
I like this one from Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin:
"Those who can't talk, and those who can talk but don't, have the great advantage over the rest of us in that they never say anything stupid. This may be why we are convinced that if they spoke they would have something wise to ... Yesterday, I found Ursula K. Le Guin's Changing Planes in a stack of bargain books at a popular local bookstore chain. It's a hardcover former library copy in very good condition, and I got it dirt-cheap. I've started reading it, and am so happy about the discovery. A very lucky find!
I started just Ursula K. Le Guin's Changing Planes yesterday for my lunch-time reading, and already I find it quite fun and engaging. =) On second thought, I'm picking up Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin for my lunch-break reading instead.
... is kind of formulaic, but he has ha talent beyond the ordinary for characters and intrigue.
Also Ursula K LeGuin. Changing Planes is quite recent; a collection of short stories on a common theme, most of them with female leads. I'd also suggest Four ways to forgiveness : stories and ... ... the moment to answer the question: Is there a theology of learning?
Roughly in the order read.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes (2003) – BsB and because Le Guin is in first place among my favorites and I had not got to this for two years. The stories are primarily descriptive ... #156 - Busifer, I loved Changing Planes and also The Telling. Though they are both quite different from her Earthsea works. ... me thinking of stuff suitable for airports and flying... Anyone who likes Le Guin and haven't read it yet should try Changing Planes next time you fly :-)
Maybe not as funny as Moore (which IMO quite too lightweight) but... well, appropriate when sitting off time time waiting ... I loved Changing Planes; in fact, it's one of my favorite books ever. It was an unusual sort of book; there was no plot, really, but you felt as though you'd visited the worlds she described. Visionary is a good word for it. ... is true about at least most of her hainish work. Lately she has returned to a more message driven writing, at least with Changing Planes, but I think she feels she have some things she really wants to put through to the audience.
BTW, I liked most of the short stories in above book...
In ... I wouldn't say "decline" - some of her more recent stuff (Gifts and Voices) are if not brilliant nice to read, and Changing Planes is a nice collection of stories. I also remember liking The Wind's twelve quarters, but I don't seem to rememer much of it...
But I agree if you're thinking of ...
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