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  <title><![CDATA[Always Coming Home (Paperback)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Ursula Le Guin's &lt;I&gt;Always Coming Home &lt;/I&gt;is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1985</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are few books I have read, none of them being fiction until now, that have required such a concerted effort of study on my part to even read through the book. <br/><br/>If it wasn't Ursula... I doubt I would have bothered. But it was, and I did, and of course it was well worth the effort.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17682329">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 22 16:59:25 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The people in this book might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California. . . The difficulty of translation from a language that doesn't yet exist is considerable, but there's no need to exaggerate it.&quot;<br/><br/>So begins one of my favorite books by Ursula ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38410213">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book isn't a novel.  It's not a collection of short stories.  I don't have a word for what it is.<br/><br/><em>Always Coming Home</em> is a collection of writings, both fictional-fiction and fictional-factual about the People of the Valley.  These people live in California some generations after a war...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21741002">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I found the poetry boring and could not really appreciate the format, this book highlighted some of the assumptions of my thinking about the future.  I continually forget to examine how to actually live life in my frantic attempts to bring about the singularity.  Always Coming Home examines...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28177236">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 28 20:56:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hate to say that a book was a slog to get through, but I made the effort with this one and was rewarded.  It's a really complex and thoughtful portrayal of a society with some wonderful ideas.  I do think that it could use a reorganization to make it more of a harmonic, connected novel, or collect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50769809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67977082">
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 18 20:10:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one took me awhile to get into due to the structure of the book, but I kept coming back to this one because I was curious about this mostly tribal civilization of the future. It's set up as if someone from contemporary life stepped into this scenario and started a social-ethno-cultural-etc. stu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67977082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63167278">
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    <body><![CDATA[I cannot imagine having read any other version than the one with the casette tape.  This is a fictionalized ethnography of the NW coast culture known as the Kesh and tells of their history, their lore, their music, etc.  (Think Tolkien on the NW Coast.)]]></body>
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    <review id="7378026">
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    <body><![CDATA[There's not real story here, just a collection of anthropological data about a native group on the north coast of California:  myths, songs, diagrams for the layout of kivas and villages, descriptions of tribal roles and clan structures, calanders and descriptions of dances, poems, cautionary tales,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7378026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26673050">
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful, thoughtful book.  Part story, part history (future history that is) and part spiritual manual on how to live.  This is a future history of an area of north America after a cataclysm has changed the world and changed the people in it.  It's the writings of wise people who are in balance ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26673050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47645633">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Le Guin is amazing and this is an amazing effort.  An anthropoligist from the present visits the far far future and this is the report sent back home.  It's filled with poetry and myths, descriptions of rituals and ceremonies and little autobiographical sketches.  In the back she has appendices and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47645633">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 07 05:55:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 07 05:56:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An exercise in post-technological worldbuilding.  This collection of essays and stories was invaluable when I was creating my own setting.]]></body>
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    <review id="3387224">
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 22 16:25:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't know how to classify this once except that an exceptionally fine author has created a whole culture--poems, music, plays, myth cycles, language and alphabet, recipes, rants by the disaffected, ..name it--including musical instruments which were built just so they could be played, after she des...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3387224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44921114">
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    <body><![CDATA[A worldwide holocaust might not be so bad if we could rebuild a harmonious tribal culture from its ashes(?).]]></body>
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    <review id="60663332">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, this is pretty amazing.]]></body>
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    <review id="58130903">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Terran science fiction novels&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="4582633">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an absolutely brilliant utopian piece which clearly demonstates author's skill and intelligence.  That said, not all of it actually works.  It must be said that it is less a novel and more an anthropological study of a fictional society.  Much of it is wonderful (the main story, the myths an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4582633">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66760167">
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    <body><![CDATA[On Charlotte's recommendation]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An anthropological study of a fictional culture, the Kesh.  This lovely book contains their myths, their poetry, their drama, their personal narratives, descriptions of customs, notes on their language, wonderful illustrations and maps, and the edition I checked out from my library even comes with a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25621581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite of Ursula LeGuin's works.  She creates an entire culture with it's own songs, customs, poetry, architechture.  Most currently popular science fiction books are just wild west shoot-'em-ups in space.  LeGuin's writing transcends the category.  The characters are deeply developed a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22777006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[hard to read at times, but amazing to think that she (le guin) created the culture herself.  some beuatiful moments in the book.  especially if you've ever lived in northern california.]]></body>
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