Reading list day 11 - 13: The Dispossessed
LeGuin pulls no punches in this novel about an anarchist-feminist society that broke away from an oppressive, consumer-driven world to live on its barren moon. Out of this vivid portrait of two flawed societies, and one brilliant physicist, comes a story about how no culture can completely erase injustice.
- Annalee Newitz, "The Twenty Science Fiction Novels That Will Change Your Life"
The next book I tackled was The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin. I am sorry to report that I can't finish it.
I've had this book for weeks and I'm stuck on page 108. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time with it. I made it through John Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged, I should be able to do anything. There's something there I don't like and I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not the right time. Some books just don't work the first time you pick them up; then you come back to them later and everything is different.
Now back to the Fadiman List. The Analects of Confucius.
- Annalee Newitz, "The Twenty Science Fiction Novels That Will Change Your Life"
The next book I tackled was The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin. I am sorry to report that I can't finish it.
I've had this book for weeks and I'm stuck on page 108. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time with it. I made it through John Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged, I should be able to do anything. There's something there I don't like and I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not the right time. Some books just don't work the first time you pick them up; then you come back to them later and everything is different.
Now back to the Fadiman List. The Analects of Confucius.