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Well I'm glad you're liking the SFF. There's no wrong way to enjoy it.ULG is talking a lot here about how gender and the constant mating urge affects society and what it would be like if we didn't have it most of the time.
Society has progressed a lot more slowly but is a lot more peaceful, though that could be mostly because they live on such a difficult planet.
I haven't had the energy to read much lately but I read some of this last night.I've gotten to the part where it basically turns into a wilderness survival story. I remember this is the part that I didn't like last time. I've enjoyed plenty of stories of wilderness survival before but it's just a weird, abrupt change from the politics and gender stuff.
I read this before and didn't care for it that much.Reading it again the idea that gender was suppressed to help them survive on a really harsh planet and that it may have ended war is really interesting.
Ah ouija boards, the biggest villain in horror.
Welcome Lady.
The scary stuff really starts about a third of the way through the book. Before that I was mostly thinking that doctors in the 70s were so much more simple and helpful than they are now.
The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
Welcome Dave!
I read Don Quixote in 2013. Don't have time to get back to it now but I enjoyed it.Pam wrote: "Montse- I think a lot of Americans aren’t that familiar with Don Quixote. The battle with the windmills is probably the scene most people are familiar with. I have a friend/neighbor who is a direct..."
I think a lot of Americans assume it's something for kids because we're really only familiar with it from cartoons.
Welcome Luffy and Ines.
I'll have to see when I read the other books.
I finally read Out of the Silent Planet and I enjoyed it. At first it was a pretty typical exploring a new planet and meeting the natives thing then it went into some vaguely christian stuff as it usually does with Lewis.
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
160 pages
Hell House by Richard Matheson
300 pages
Total to Date: 139,152
It was a really great quick read and a scary story but I thought the whole thing of what's really going on at the end was pretty overdone. Spooky haunted house. The details were anticlimactic.
I'm reading it now. It's a really good haunted house story. I definitely need to read more Matheson.
This seems to get compared to Avatar a lot but I think it was a direct inspiration for the Ewoks. They even have a village called Endtor.The whole thing of traveling light years for wood was pretty ridiculous but sometimes you just have to go with it.
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