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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.
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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. ...more
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. ...more

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


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