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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first legitimate foray into sci-fi... having tried and tried for years to dedicate myself to finishing one book from this genre, only to fail miserable and be left scratching my head, wondering why?why?why? do people read this, given the array of other vastly more interesting and enterta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9327105">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Lathe Of Heaven is a taoist parable masquerading as a novella.  Through the metaphor of George Orr, a man whose dreams become reality, it examines the consequences of interference and the hubris of believing that we can &quot;improve&quot; the world.<br/><br/>I read this book during a flight t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6485096">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an incredibly interesting book with some lines that I felt were quote-worthy, but a lot of the brain matter didn't feel like thinking about the ideas and things as much as I think it deserved.  Perhaps I will have to read it again; I think it might be worth it, so that would mean it's defin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49523069">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was given to me by a close friend and it changed my outlook on a lot of things.  it's science fiction, and there are aliens and battles and stuff, but also a lot about balance and how it is inevitable that good and evil will have to co-exist somehow.  probably my favorite book ever.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6422656">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've lost count of how many times I've reread this book -- one of my permanent favourites.  I saw the classic PBS adaptation when it first aired, too!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd like George Orr to dream me up a puppy, but of course it would end up being some horrible zombie puppy that needs to eat my flesh to survive. Damn you and your uncontrollable effective dreams!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Lathe of Heaven is a book of profound impact.  I recall thinking that the concept of a world constantly turning inside out was almost too terrible to consider and, after I read it it, I began to feel like George, constantly disturbed while awake and unable to sleep peacefully. I began thinking a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42711371">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Much to my disappointment, my least favorite Ursula le Guin book so far.  I had high hopes having loved the Earthsea books, The Dispossessed, etc - le Guin is among my favorite authors.  Unfortunately I often felt she was speaking ideology through the characters in ways that were jarring, and while ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80985930">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers. She is  also an acclaimed author of powerful and perceptive nonfiction, fantasy, and  literary fiction. She has received many honors, including six Nebula and five  Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Newbery, the  Pilgrim, the Tiptree, and citations by the American Library Association. She has  written over a dozen highly regarded novels and story collections. Her SF  masterworks are <em>The Left Hand of  Darkness</em> (1969), <em>The  Dispossessed</em> (1974), and <em>The Lathe of Heaven</em> (1971).<p>  George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that  the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to  find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But  a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream  researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.<p>  <em>The Lathe of Heaven</em> is set in the sort of worlds that one would associate  with Philip K. Dick, but Ms. Le Guin's treatment of the material, her plot and  characterization and concerns, are more akin to the humanistic, ethically  engaged, psychologically nuanced fiction of Theodore Sturgeon. <em>The Lathe of  Heaven</em> is an insightful and chilling examination of total power, of war and  injustice and other age-old problems, of changing the world, of playing God.  <em>--Cynthia Ward</em></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers. She is  also an acclaimed author of powerful and perceptive nonfiction, fantasy, and  literary fiction. She has received many honors, including six Nebula and five  Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Newbery, the  Pilgrim, the Tiptree, and citations by the American Library Association. She has  written over a dozen highly regarded novels and story collections. Her SF  masterworks are <em>The Left Hand of  Darkness</em> (1969), <em>The  Dispossessed</em> (1974), and <em>The Lathe of Heaven</em> (1971).<p>  George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that  the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to  find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But  a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream  researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.<p>  <em>The Lathe of Heaven</em> is set in the sort of worlds that one would associate  with Philip K. Dick, but Ms. Le Guin's treatment of the material, her plot and  characterization and concerns, are more akin to the humanistic, ethically  engaged, psychologically nuanced fiction of Theodore Sturgeon. <em>The Lathe of  Heaven</em> is an insightful and chilling examination of total power, of war and  injustice and other age-old problems, of changing the world, of playing God.  <em>--Cynthia Ward</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this a whole lot.  It's short and sweet ... 176 pages, and about a pretty simple idea: what happens if your dreams DO come true?  And not your daydreams ... your uncontrolled, fantastic and abstract deep-sleep dreams.  Ursula K LeGuin takes this idea and surrounds it with three deep, rich ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26515457">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was probably my favorite LeGuin book to date.  Languid, thoughtful, well-written.  I loved the transitions between realities, which at first were hard to notice when I didn't have a baseline for what constituted reality in this book.  Kind of like, &quot;Ok, aliens.  Wait, were there aliens bef...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68683490">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Lathe of Heaven]]>
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    <![CDATA[Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers. She is  also an acclaimed author of powerful and perceptive nonfiction, fantasy, and  literary fiction. She has received many honors, including six Nebula and five  Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Newbery, the  Pilgrim, the Tiptree, and citations by the American Library Association. She has  written over a dozen highly regarded novels and story collections. Her SF  masterworks are <em>The Left Hand of  Darkness</em> (1969), <em>The  Dispossessed</em> (1974), and <em>The Lathe of Heaven</em> (1971).<p>  George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that  the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to  find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But  a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream  researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.<p>  <em>The Lathe of Heaven</em> is set in the sort of worlds that one would associate  with Philip K. Dick, but Ms. Le Guin's treatment of the material, her plot and  characterization and concerns, are more akin to the humanistic, ethically  engaged, psychologically nuanced fiction of Theodore Sturgeon. <em>The Lathe of  Heaven</em> is an insightful and chilling examination of total power, of war and  injustice and other age-old problems, of changing the world, of playing God.  <em>--Cynthia Ward</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mother suggested this book to me after I moved to Portland, as it is written by a Portlander (Ursula K LeGuin) and takes place in Portland.  It is a fairly short and fast read, but is sci-fi at its best.  Not to give too much away, the premise is classic Sci-Fi, our protagonist has dreams that ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7790882">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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