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Kevin Xu
Jul 13, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I love the idea of this book, but I could of a world when the beings were gender less and raceless, plus I don't care much for LeGuin's politics. ...more
Trice
I'm trying to remember when it was that I finally picked this up and decided it was boring and I didn't want to bother with it. Reading it this time around, I'm wishing for a time machine to go back to that me and give myself a knock in the head for stupidity.

have a bunch of pages marked off and hopefully will come back and write a real review, but still firmly in awe of what she did in this book.
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Mark Yashar
Nov 12, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
The title of the book is taken from a poem written by the author:

"Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light...."
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