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The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin

Start date: February 1, 2026

Finish date: February 28, 2026

Discussion: Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Oct 03, 2021 Katherine Sas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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One of my favorites by Le Guin so far.

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Oct 04, 2015 Meika rated it it was amazing

I loved this story. The unintended consequences of good intentions that come with hubris. How will can make or break reality...

I saw a deeply psychological layer to this story in how reality shifted hither and yon. I never fully trusted George Orr as a narrator, even with the other points of view telling their accounts of these shifts. I felt it never really gave me what I needed to believe that George wasn't just insane.

But, suspending that, I also saw a re-telling of the old Zen Koan about th ...more

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Feb 03, 2018 Tom Britz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is my first Ursula K. LeGuin read in quite some time. I really need to re-read The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, as I have no recollection of either, other than that I did read them many years ago.
The Lathe of Heaven is a novel that carried me through many emotions. Around the halfway mark I was disgusted with the main character and the psychiatrist that was working him. I even was mad at Ursula K. LeGuin for giving me such a hopeless and ineffectual main character to follow. ...more

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