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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2024
- This is book #1 that I read for my exciting #SFFMistressworks reading project. I started with a great choice and my second Le Guin book. Super wonderful :)
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I absolutely adored this book. Every page spils over with intelligently considered characters and dialogue. I felt her writing to be very polite. She does not allow her ego to dominate the ideas she is conveying to the page. It's a very rare trait that few other writers share.
BTW: The type of Communism on Anarres is called Anarcho-Syndicalism.
...depicted in Monty Python's Holy Grail ruclips.net/video/R7qT-C-0ajI/видео.html
Syndicalism ain't the same as Communism though is it?
@@KitchenSinkSoup Correct. Syndicalism is more of a "bottom-up" approach to revolutionary Socialism while Communism takes a "top-down" approach. Communists seeks to gain control of a state and use state power to transform the economy through nationalization of the means of production and central planning, while Syndicalists prefer to seize the means of production at the grassroots level, i.e. factories and unions, having little or no need for the state. For this reason, syndicalism is often considered part of anarchist and/or libertarian thought, while Communism is decidedly authoritarian/statist. The OP would be more accurate if it was written: BTW: The type of _Socialism_ on Anarres is called anarcho-syndicalism.
@@ashevillecat Like what the CNT tried to do in Spain? Before the Communists crushed them of course.
@@KitchenSinkSoup Precisely
7:28 I think LeGuin may have understood that the unresolved cultural and social issues which her books address would continue to be current. The age in which she grew up was one in which great social advances coincided with baffling regressions, despite amazing breakthroughs in transportation, communication, medicine, and many other fields. Our world today vacillates between such progress and regress, and her stories show that we can expect such conflicts we’ll into the foreseeable future of humanity.
I. Absolutely. Loved. This. Review.
I mean, I have to admit, I usually love your reviews but this one thoroughly convinced me to pick up this book and it is NOT a book I would ever have thought to reach for before because it is so out of my comfort zone.
This project is so exciiiiiiiittttttttting!!!
+literarydiversions 💖💖💖💖 Aww thank you! It's JUST. SO. GOOD.
I really hope you love her as much as I do. She's so so original and great
I'm about to do a Le Guin video....i'm not half as eloquent as you though - brilliant video Kitty.
Definitely one of my favorites. Glad to hear how much you liked it.
+ElleKayEm :) She is just excellent :)
You've made me really want to pick up Le Guin now. Added to the wishlist!
+Abi B You should :)
It's a fantastic book that bears many rereads and discussion
TY I was a quarter of the way through like in a new land without a compass.
Excellent review! I loved the book too.
Part of it is the thrill of the anarchists as they colonize a new world.
Great Review! I cannot wait to pick up this one, I hope we can chat about this when I get to it :) I have not read LeGuin but I want to read this and The Left Hand Of Darkness.
+MyBookishEmpire yeah a very good place to start :)
Check out her short story called The Day Before the Revolution, which deals with Odo's last day. Somehow relevant now that UleG is no longer with us, in the flesh at least.
This isn't a spoiler but what writing! Shevek is on his way home between the worlds :
"Very late on the following ship-night, Shevek was in the Davenant's garden. The lights were out there, and it was illuminated only by starlight. The air was quite cold. A nightblooming flower from some unimaginable world had opened among the dark leaves, and was sending out its perfume with patient, unavailing sweetness to attract some unimaginable moth trillions of miles away, in a garden on a world circling another star. The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness ..."
BTW, that lipsitck! You wicked body-profiteer ;-)
+marconatrix :D thanks! I will defo look that one up and see if I can find it. Agreed she's just a brilliant writer, and it's a shame she's gone, but thankfully she wrote a lot for us to all enjoy!
Sorry I can't remember which collection of short stories it's in, maybe The Wind's Twelve Quarters ???
The final words :-)
"'I will lie down to sleep on Anarres tonight,' he thought. 'I will lie down beside Takver. I wish I'd brought the picture of the baby sheep, to give to Pilun.'
But he had not brought anything. His hands were empty, as they had always been."
“Shit-stool” just gets me down. Why? 😩
Try another economic dichotomy.
Voyage from Yesteryear by James P Hogan
I'm so glad you enjoyed this book! It's one of my all-time favorites (in the genre and by Le Guin).
I did just want to give you a heads up about your use of the word 'tribe' to describe fictional groups of people (especially when that's not a word used in the text). Tribe carries misleading historical and cultural assumptions stemming from outdated 19th-century social theory perpetuated by European colonialism in Africa and the Americas. It's been used to dehumanize oppressed people and their social structures. I'm sure you didn't mean to use it that way, but I thought I'd let you know for future reference.
+Kay Taylor Rea very true point! Will have to bear that in mind!! And yes, really enjoyed it :)
(PS if you liked this and Left Hand of Darkness, I definitely rec checking out The Telling. It's the same universe and SUPER RELEVANT for our political climate.)
I'll definitely do that!!