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  <title><![CDATA[The Compass Rose]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1983</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Nikki]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cardiff, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 06 03:08:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 15 12:09:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've come to the conclusion that with Le Guin's work, by far the smartest thing to do in a review is to do the linguistic equivalent of smiling, vaguely, mysteriously, and nodding slightly. You look smarter that way.<br/><br/>Probably the best way to read <em>The Compass Rose</em> does not involve a distra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29393899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54890461">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 04 08:28:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 04 08:29:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[From ISawLightningFall.com<br/><br/>THREE-AND-A-HALF STARS<br/><br/>&quot;The problem with possessing prodigious talent,&quot; Dr. Jacobs said, &quot;is that it means you can do just about anything.&quot; It was sleepy spring afternoon in Modern British lit class, one made all the more drowsy be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54890461">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 28 12:56:44 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 07 11:51:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The preface might hook you into the book but the first part of the first story does not.  That is unless you are a Le Guin fan or interested in linguistics.  Lucky for me, I fall into both categories, so I read on enthusiastically.  But that only lasted for a few pages; few of the stories fell into ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11168881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39050801">
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    <name><![CDATA[Diane]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 01 14:04:05 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 14:45:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved some of the stories and was indifferent to others. I do love her beautiful prose. Most of the stories dealt with the themes of sanity/insanity, freedom/captivity, and communication/the lack thereof.<br/><br/>I have the paperback if anyone would like to take a crack at it.]]></body>
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    <review id="73978051">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 09 10:42:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 23 08:29:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ursula LeGuin is one of my top 5 all time favorite authors.  I enjoyed these stories, but they were written early in her career, and I miss the mastery of her more recent books.  This collection is much more eclectic than more recent anthologies, and includes more realistic fiction.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="57977255">
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    <location><![CDATA[Starnberg, 02, Germany]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful short stories. My favorites are one about animal linguistics, including an ant poet, and one about Schroedinger's cat.]]></body>
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    <review id="45130358">
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    <location><![CDATA[Ann Arbor, MI]]></location>        
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 02 07:09:38 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good stories - some about old women - hey we need more stories about old women.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="41902488">
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    <location><![CDATA[Barrie, ON, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A few good stories but definitely not the best LeGuin I've ever read.]]></body>
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    <review id="50905231">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin (1984)]]></body>
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    <review id="62792286">
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories will blow your mind.]]></body>
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    <review id="16440902">
    <user id="782426">
    <name><![CDATA[Sherry]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first story hooked me; but sadly my excitement about discovering another Le Guin book to read completely lost momentum.  The second story in the book, while fascinating on some levels, killed my interest in reading the rest of them.  It may be that this just isn't the right time for a book of sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16440902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11670549">
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    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 04 18:00:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 04 18:05:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first story in this collection is from the perspective of an anthropologist studying the remnants of writing from an abandoned ant colony, trying to learn about their culture.  The last story is about a group of Chilean women who travel to the south pole a year before Captain Scott but who humbl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11670549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28211363">
    <user id="174676">
    <name><![CDATA[Nancy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 24 17:38:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 24 17:56:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this over the vacation and forgot to log it.  Some of these stories were amazing, some forgettable.  I was really taken with the very first one, &quot;The Author of the Acacia Seeds,&quot; about the literature of animals. Two others that have really stayed with me are The Eye Altering and Mal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28211363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2589567">
    <user id="163906">
    <name><![CDATA[Boman]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Alexandria, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 01 08:35:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 18 09:43:52 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[overall, not as good as fisherman of an inland sea. some of the stories didn't seem to go anywhere and i'm not drawn by le guin's style alone. her plot twists and characters drive the stories so reading several without a clear (open or closed) ending detracted from the collection as a whole. otherwi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2589567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22980107">
    <user id="1052328">
    <name><![CDATA[Eleanor]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Aberdeen, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 30 09:48:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this as with all Ursula Le Guin's books that I have read. More than one of the stories made me cry (The White Donkey, Gwilan's Hart), most were quite bleak in outlook but the idea of 'reading' penguin in 'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' was beautiful. 'The Wife's Story' was a nice t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22980107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30969872">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gentle short stories articulating hard-to-express emotions, alternating between showing similarity and variety of humanness. (And it includes <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://interconnected.org/home/more/2007/03/acacia-seeds.html">The Author of the Acacia Seeds</a>.)]]></body>
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    <review id="1622007">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book of short stories, and when they're good they're good. Some of the stories barely fizzle, but all in all, it's worth reading, especially if you've studied the social sciences. After all, she is the master of social-science fiction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>If you work with linguistics and enjoy SF, you are almost obliged to read the lead story, <em>MS Found in an Anthill</em>. Completely brilliant. <br/><br/>Many of the others are also good, needless to say, but this one was the standout for me.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good collection of stories by Le Guin, organized in an interesting way and covering a large and varied mind-scape.  I was more accustomed to her more science fiction stories so was surprised by a number of these, but not unpleasantly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is all short works - I read some, haven't read others yet. I might come back to it someday. Just in the mood for a novel right now... Some of these were good but not like her longer fiction, some of which has been VERY good.]]></body>
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