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    <body><![CDATA[The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's short stories - an early collection, so they're some of her first stories.  There were some clunkers (&quot;A Trip to the Head,&quot; for one, and &quot;The Stars Below,&quot; for another), but they were nicely counteracted by some re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16873486">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone looking for intelligent yet flawed short stories]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent a long time looking for this short story collection without even realizing it. The journey began one day when I was trying to remember the title of a story. All I could remember was that the story was about a Utopian society which kept a young child in a dark room because that was the only w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13122189">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1977</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am so gald to have found this here. I have been looking for a new copy for years now. Gradually the title faded away. Now I will find a new copy. Stories stuck with me and woke me to ideas I would never have come across on my own.  Parts of the stories haunt me still, a ghost that wakes me and I b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76938847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection includes what I consider some of Le Guin's best short stories, which is saying a lot. Personal favorites from the collection: &quot;The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,&quot; a poetic presentation of the tradeoffs of utilitarianism and the nature of prosperity, and &quot;Direction of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66538522">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a while since I've read science fiction and this was my introduction to Ursula LeGuin; what a nice introduction!  The stories are from when she first started writing to later in her career and you can see a developing maturity and changing interest in subject matter through each successive...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48607921">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Feb 13 08:29:20 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book from the library because I had volunteered to bring the story &quot;The Day Before the Revolution&quot; to a reading group, being that we had just finished discussing <em>The Dispossessed</em>. I really liked that short story this second time reading it, so much so that I recorded an audio ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11871101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a really interesting mix of Science Fiction and Fantasy.  I read if for a class and was pleasantly suprised how much I liked it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some real gems in here, and also some really confusing and odd stories. I have this book from my &quot;Enchanted Imagination&quot; class. We were assigned a few stories from it, but I wanted to read the others. My favorite, given that I'm a science geek, is &quot;The Stars Below.&quot; Ove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/934449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a choice for my neighborhood book club, out of my normal comfort zone.  I found the story about clones to be my favorite so far.  Well written but hasn't made me a sci fi fan yet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. LeGuin (1993)]]></body>
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    <review id="57876753">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[bit of a mixed bag - some of the earliest stories seem to be struggling pretty hard to fit into certain SFF standards or popular themes of the time - but even the most awkward ones have some of le guin's simple charm &amp; thoughtfulness showing through. and the last handful, where she really starts to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57876753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because Margret Atwood said the story &quot;The One's Who Walk Away From Omelas&quot; would make a good companion piece to Never Let Me Go.  She's right. While the story is an allegory and the book is not, they both deal with the themes of scapegoating, sacrifice, insiders and outsi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23935249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5583300">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was on my list because I had read that there was a short story connected to her novel, the Dispossessed. There were some lovely science fiction stories with some phrases that made me smile. Her &quot;psychomyths&quot; I didn't enjoy as much. I like how she consistently uses the device of time l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5583300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[despite this book taking me forever to read (clearly more of a reflection of my chaotic life than anything about the book), i had a really good time doing it! I always remembered wanting to find another book reminiscent of bradbury's illustrated man, and I think i finally found it! le guin has an in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39173775">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39027091">
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of early LeGuin stories.  I love her, so I'm biased, but I love it.  (Some stories are better than others, but I'm enjoying all of them).  It's her style - so, you know, if you like her you'll like it. . . but there ARE some really great stories in here, srsly.<br/><br/>It's a bedside...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39027091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62976484">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of these stories seem familiar - but it could be because some of them were used to start some of her series... some nice stories, some seem rather dated.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For Leguin fans only, of which I am one to be sure.  These are her early stories, so this isn't a place to find the brilliance of her mature fiction, only its intimation, which is satisfying if you're already a lover of her books.  If you're not, go read &quot;The Left Hand of Darkness,&quot; or &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8566383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More wonderful short stories. The one that has stuck with me is &quot;The Direction of the Road&quot;, about a tree that looms well. &quot;The Rule of Names&quot; is my favorite story of any length about dragons. Le Guin's dragons are cat-like, clever, and very scary.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ursula K. Le Guin is a master. This book contains some of her earliest short stories, including a couple that contain seeds of novels (&quot;The Word of Unbinding,&quot; &quot;Semley's Necklace&quot;). A wonderful collection to savor.]]></body>
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