Comments | snurri: 2011 Reading #72: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

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2011 Reading #72: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Aug 19, 2011 13:23

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72. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. Holy fucking crap this is good. The influence of PKD is obvious, here, but married with Le Guin's humanism and deft character work, and also to the setting--I've ( Read more... )

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unnamed_horror August 19 2011, 23:23:23 UTC

I read LoH when I was on my LeGuin kick just before and just after Odyssey. Yup, it totally messed with my mind. I'd like to read it again, now that I've seen movies like "Inception" and "Dark City."

hecubot August 19 2011, 23:29:31 UTC

Isn't it weird that she went to Berkeley High School with PKD? And that they didn't know each other?

hecubot August 20 2011, 16:53:29 UTC

Btw, have you ever seen the TV movie version of "Lathe of Heaven"? Pretty cool.

ken_schneyer August 28 2011, 01:49:20 UTC

It gets even better when you read it in conjunction with the Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu. I read it in 1980, after seeing the PBS film (the first one) made from it, which was about a year after I read The Left Hand of Darkness. Shortly afterwards I went on a Le Guin binge from which I have never recovered. I keep hoping she'll adopt me.