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I read this book for a Coursera course on Fantasy and Science Fiction that I'm taking; I probably wouldn't have read it otherwise, and of course, that makes a difference in how much I liked it. I'm not much of a Fantasy/Sci Fi reader, but this was one of the better books I read for the course. Genly Ai is an ambassador to a planet called Winter (because it's cold there) where he is trying to convince the people to join the galactic alliance. One curious thing about the residents of Winter is tha
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I know I am in the minority here but ... I just didn’t get it. I don’t see why this one is so celebrated. I understand it’s about what it is to be human. To love and accept as humans. We are not one thing. We are the two faces of everything - man, woman, love, hate, light, dark, yin, yang. The ambisexual factor was interesting. What happens when gender and roles are stripped away? Not a whole lot more to enjoy. The change in voices kept confusing me. I couldn’t keep narrators, character names, a
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