Left Hand of Darkness: Shadows cast behind you (Estraven)

[karanguni]

Slowly reposting the Yuletide fics I personally love the most back onto my LJ; if you love me you will read them and ignore the fact that I'm still flailing around in my sandboxes, failing to write things! *BEAMS* But, seriously: The Left Hand of Darkness (by Ursula K Le Guin) is one of those works of fiction that blew me out of the water the

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[dnatio_memoriae]

Hmm. I haven't read this book yet. It's been sitting on my shelf for quite some time now, but everytime I think I might have a go at it something else comes up. It might be because I had to read The Dispossessed, also by Le Guin, for a subject of mine, and I never managed to finish it. Oh well, seeing as you speak so highly of it I might have a crack at it <3 Consider my commentary for this fic delayed.

[karanguni]

The Dispossessed wasn't as good - in any sense of the word - and I needed two tries for Left Hand myself - but the moment you get past the midpart of the book SOMETHING EXPLODES and you fall in love and your HEART BREAKS.

[dnatio_memoriae]

Well that's incentive right there. I'll keep that in mind when I'm reading ^^

[karanguni]

*WRIGGLE* Estraven = Tseng but less evil but MORE COMPETENT.

[makeanewworld]

LHoD fic - what a rarity. I admit, it's been a while since I read the book, but I still enjoyed this fic. (If enjoyed is the right word...) This was sad, touching on the tragedy in Estraven's life, and it captured some of the cold bleakness of his world.

[karanguni]

♥ Thank you!

Elegant work!

[anonymous]

I have recently re-read Left Hand, and this is a lovely appendix to the book. Beautifully written, and I feel very consistent with the style and content of Ursula's book. Estraven is her most intriguing character, his incomplete story haunting and tragic. Good work!

Re: Elegant work!

[karanguni]

:D Reading Le Guin's stuff is like getting her voice transplanted into my brain. I'm glad that some of that gets through, hee! Thank you!