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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 ( Read more... ) -
Reading list Day 8 - 10: The Odyssey
This one was tough. Maybe it was the searing heat wave that's slowed me down, maybe it's the fact that I haven't been reading as much as I did when I was younger. Or I'm just not used to the conventions of ancient epics.
I read Samuel Butler's prose translation on Wikisource, which was pretty readable. (I also read his translation of The Iliad in ( Read more... ) -
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You know you've been on the internet too long when you think that the Writer's Block of the day was sponsored by the Do Something Awful Awards. -
Reading list Day 7: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
I polished it off in one day. Not that hard, really - the copy from my local library is 228 pages ( Read more... ) -
Where I tackle two reading lists at once.
Out of sheer boredom I decided to tackle some reading lists that I bookmarked a while ago. The first two are io9's Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life and Clifton Fadiman's New Lifetime Reading Plan. The Fadiman list is really long, so it'll be a while before I can get to the other lists ( Read more... )
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