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  <title><![CDATA[Changing Planes]]></title>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[le guin is one of my favorite authors, but i have a tendency to buy her books and then stick them on my shelf and forget which ones i've read. finally i decided to do things right and read them all, in chronological order by publication date (except the ones that...i don't want to). i started the pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32201240">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Basics: I’ve loved LeGuin’s writing ever since my father introduced me to the Wizard of Earthsea trilogy when I was a child. I even named one of my dogs after the main character in that trilogy (though, as my father was fond of pointing out, the dog was no wizard). I’ve yet to read a story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26782404">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a science fiction book which contemplates the possibility of traveling to other worlds through the standard American airport.  The book is a collection of descriptions of a few of these worlds.  Each chapter describes a different world, with an emphasis on the particular aspect that makes th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46054182">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 16:15:27 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an odd little book! Le Guinn is, I believe, a sociologist by training, and many of her books reveal a sociologist's perspective... she often takes some precept of human society (sex, for instance, or the difference between the sexes), stands it on it's head, and then examines what the resulting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47142021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the concept--that while waiting in airports, for airplanes, one could actually transport into another dimension to visit other &quot;planes&quot; of existence. Other worlds, some alien, some beautiful, some harsh, and frightening places. Le Guin sets this up through a collection of short sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53515470">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ursula LeGuin is a great creator of disparate worlds: think of the scattered archipelago of Earthsea, and the strange and diverse planets in the Ekumen that are explored in “The Left Hand of Darkness”, “The Dispossessed”, and many other books and stories. Her imagination is rich and varied, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20206155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15624066">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[LeGuin is a fantastic writer, most notably for her ability to create such a realistic world-setting that readers just fall right into it each time they revisit that place.  What she's doing in this collection is exactly that--building world settings that feel so <em>real</em> it's sometimes hard to believe t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15624066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41221009">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 09:35:20 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although not as sweeping in scope as many of her longer social-science fictions worldbuilding novels, the short stories in this collection are enjoyable vignettes featuring wildly disparate societies.  Making extensive use of humor, the various losely-connected stories include cautionary tales, rela...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41221009">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this book up on a whim in a Hungarian bookstore that had only a few books in English, and BOY was I surprised at how fantastic it was. I had heard Ursula Le Guin's name before, so I went with this book instead of &quot;Confessions of a Shopaholic.&quot; And WOW. Needless to say, it was a good...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68668110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48496618">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I scanned, rather than read, because the beginning wasn't too promising. The rest is mildly interesting, but not as engaging as her earlier works. Also, the essay having to do with genetic engineering is only fiction, I realize, but I found it simply silly science fiction that seems to come from an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48496618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a nice light read; perfect as a travel/airport companion, as the book's plot and germination grew out of just that: waiting in an airport.  you do a lot of flitting from one fantastic place to another, like gulliver, and experience lovely anthropological adventures in new worlds.  you can see le gui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51552495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you read Le Guin and like her work, I would recommend 'Changing Planes'. This book is about people being able to move between planes of exsistence, and is basically a compilation of what she does best. A bunch of worlds that tell us something about ourselves, instead of telling us something about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48683912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Odd collection of little stories of alternate planes that can be reached from the &quot;comfort&quot; of an airport. The inhabitants of all these worlds are quite amusing, and some of the stories, like the one of the flying people, are quite beautiful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great collection of short stories tied around the theme of using airport waiting times as an opportunity to travel to other &quot;planes&quot;.  She explored some deep ideas in depth and gave me some things to think about.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise is that stress and boredom endured in airports is enough to allow humans to pass into different planes of existence where they can spend several days or weeks on a relaxing vacation while little to no time passes back at the airport they were waiting in. These short stories cover the his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49088043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Very promising:  on page 4 there is the sentence - &quot;The airport bookstores did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.&quot;  Nice!  I think I'm going to like this one!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this was a bit of a mind trip I enjoyed it. I appreciate the cultural metaphors she uses. For me as someone who currently seems to be reading mostly nonfiction it was a nice escape.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting book. It's more a collection of short stories with a common theme, and it's fantasy/sci-fi masquerading as a travel book. It's interesting for that, and interesting for Le Guin's writing. Her political/social commentary is obvious, particularly in &quot;Porridge on Islac&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23671129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Meagan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An imaginative and engrossing journey to &quot;planes&quot; of existence much like, but not really like, our own. I enjoyed the travelogue/short story style. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[not bad, but I just wasn't as into it as her novels, where she has more time to develop the other worlds, and they thus seem less gimmicky.]]></body>
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