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Ämnen meddelanden Senaste meddelande 50 Book Challenge : Folkstone's 50 book challenge - 2009 50 folkstone , I dag 12:54am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : justchris 2009 239 justchris , Igår 11:04pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Jasmyn9's 2009 Books 214 jasmyn9 , Igår 8:27pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : jmaloney17's reads in 2009 166 jmaloney17 , Igår 10:09amScience Fiction Fans : 5 most reread sci-fi books/authors 125 jnwelch , onsdag 8:23pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : New Starter: iansales 95 avatiakh , onsdag 7:53pm50 Book Challenge : Hobbes' 2009 20 hobbeslibrary , onsdag 1:42pm999 Challenge : ladyc72385: 999 challenge 134 christina_reads , onsdag 1:11pm50-Something Library Thingers : What early book(s) impacted your life? 37 ctpete , tisdag 7:05pmClub Read 2009 : LisaCurcio's 2009 Reading 43 LisaCurcio , tisdag 12:19pm50 Book Challenge : Sanja's 2009 list 62 sanja , måndag 9:09pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Cauterize's 2009 Book Challenge 234 alcottacre , måndag 2:35am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Fourpawz2 reads 75 in 2009 310 FlossieT , söndag 5:06pmClub Read 2009 : INTRODUCTIONS 275 jaseD , söndag 10:25am50 Book Challenge : Vestafan's for 2009 83 vestafan , lördag 6:17am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Monthly Bests 43 allthesedarnbooks , december 17The Green Dragon : 1001 Science Fiction Books to Read Before a Supernova Kills Us All 129 Morphidae , december 17Book talk : Books Told by Multiple Character Points of View 33 marcejewels , december 16TBR Challenge : RebeccaAnn's 2010 Challenge 7 judylou , december 16Feminist SF : Recommendations? 29 MEStaton , december 15List Five Books Parlour Game : And into the dark . . . 18 AHS-Wolfy , december 1550 Book Challenge : Hope's 50 books in 2009 46 hopeglidden , december 131010 Category Challenge : RebeccaAnn's 1010 Challenge 27 _Zoe_ , december 12Seattleites : Third Place Thingers Book Club 208 maggie1944 , december 6Awful Lit. : Awful Classics? 558 chapterofaccidents , november 27Science Fiction Fans : What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? 40 SusieBookworm , november 2550 Book Challenge : Welachild's 50 books March 2009- March 2010 42 Welachild , november 15Book talk : SciFi Fantasy for Adults please..a little sex, maybe? 33 FFortuna , november 13Science Fiction Fans : What are your favorite science fiction series novels? 130 geneg , november 1350 Book Challenge : callen610's -2009 115 callen610 , november 8Readers Over Sixty : What did you read first? 39 geneg , november 5Science Fiction Fans : Female Authors 87 LamontCranston , november 4Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 31 361 moibibliomaniac , oktober 19999 Challenge : ReneeMarie's 999 102 bruce_krafft , oktober 14Science Fiction Fans : What Every Science Fiction Fan Should Read (?) 61 StormRaven , oktober 14999 Challenge : MusicMom41's 999 challenge 341 MusicMom41 , oktober 6Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 30 356 hemlokgang , oktober 41010 Category Challenge : Beatles1964 Joins The Throng 16 blythe025 , oktober 175 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Fantasy/SF 354 TadAD , september 29Science Fiction Fans : SF for beginners 19 spoiledfornothing , september 25Science Fiction Fans : True SF Classics 87 usnmm2 , september 2475 Books Challenge for 2009 : tokyoadam1 - 33 tokyoadam , september 475 Books Challenge for 2009 : MusicMom41's 2009 Reads 2nd Quarter 356 Cauterize , september 4Literary Snobs : August 2009 Reading 106 CliffBurns , augusti 31Gay Men : Gay Sci-Fi/ Fantasy 34 gregstevenstx , augusti 31Science Fiction Fans : Other sciences 43 RobertDay , augusti 29Girlybooks : Female fantasy/sci-fi writers 25 lucien , augusti 21Science Fiction Fans : Top 100 Sci Fi Recommendations for New Readers of the Genre: Post Your List 362 RobertDay , augusti 17Science Fiction Fans : Heinlein and GI Joe 40 geneg , augusti 12The Green Dragon : "Introductions" to the genre? 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January
Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain - Fiction
February
Graceling by Kristen Cashore - Fiction
March
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - Fiction
Honorable mention: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
April
Nothing notable.
May
Fiasco by Thomas E ...
... favourite female SF writer (although more like one of my top SF writers of all) you might like The Dispossessed more than The Left Hand of Darkness it has a couple of very strong female secondary characters but it is told from the PoV of a male character.
... by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
7. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
8. The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin
9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. The Catcher in the Rye by ...
... ossibilities:
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Dune by Frank Herbert
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
T ...
Ursula LeGuin's wonderful The Left Hand of Darkness employs alternating narrators to good effect, showing how members of different cultures perceive events.
The Left Hand of Darkness which taught me to question what it really means to be male or female.
Slaughterhouse Five which taught me that we don't need nuclear weapons to kill huge numbers of people and destroy beauty.
A Canticle for Leibowitz which taught me that religion and faith can ...
... Warrior's Apprentice. Miles' epic and at times hilarious romance with Ekaterin begins in Komarr.
Ursula LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness features the very different sexuality of an alien species.
Hope that's helpful.
I read Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness this year and absolutely loved it - so I'm going to continue with the rest of the Hainish cycle - there are 8 of them I think! If that goes well, then maybe one day I'll get to the Earthsea books. Oof. Series can be a pain sometimes.
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula Leguin
... thinking about what's good. Maybe a mix of novels and short stories. In addition to Wells and Verne, I'd consider The Left Hand of Darkness , representing social-science fiction; Out of the Silent Planet (first-contact story, use of religion; it holds up surprisingly well after all ...
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
... things like Pride of Chanur and the Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh, Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle, and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin are effective exactly because of the solitary human narrator immersed in a humanoid society. But in each of those cases, ...
... story I expected, though.
56. Sicilian Carousel, Lawrence Durrell - my favourite author; lots of lovely prose.
57. The Left Hand of Darkness , Ursula K LeGuin - reread; much better than I'd remembered it; my review is Noisy in Science Fiction Fans : SF for beginners (sep 8, 2009, 8:17am)
... Ursula K. LeGuin. Lots of world-building, and the Earthsea books are fantasy, so should be a good cross-over author. The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my all-time favourites.
... like Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold or Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Ruins of Isis and also Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness . I hope this answers your question of what of my definition of feminist science fiction is. I did my best to answer the question as well as I ...
... Jack: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless (1/11/09)
4. Stephenson, Neal: The Diamond Age (1/30/09
5. Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness (6/28/09)
6. Willis, Connie: To Say Nothing of the Dog (8/02/09)
7. Herbert, Frank: Dune (8/23/09)
8. Heinlein, Robert: Have Space Suit ...
For LeGuin, start with The Left Hand of Darkness . Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus is a brilliant semi-fantasy. Her darker sci-fi/fanstasy books are The Passion of New Eve and The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffmann
... really form a series but are set in the same universe and include a couple of her finest novels (The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness )
Gene Wolfe's Sun series, consisting of three multi-volume novels plus Urth of the New Sun
This month's book is The Left Hand of Darkness , Ursula Le Guin. I'll start that as soon as I've finished the book I'm currently reading (Sicilian Carousel).
Just started Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell. After that, I plan to read The Left Hand of Darkness , Ursula Le Guin, so I can write about it on my blog for my annual reading challenge. And then I'll see if I can get all the way through Samuel Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand ...
For SF, I liked Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin.
Or for a classic, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.
31. The Left Hand of Darkness
Apparently this book won a bunch of awards. I think it was kind of boring. There were almost 5 chapters on what it's like to go on a 700 mile hike through ice and snow.
The Left Hand of Darkness
If anyone is interested in a copy of The Left Hand of Darkness , I have one up for grabs. I did not enjoy it enough to reread it, but I am sure someone else would like it more than I did given the number of good reviews of it. Just put a note on my profile page with your mailing address. As ...
... bring on my hiking trip this week. I love it when I have plenty of new books to choose from. The one I decided to bring is The left hand of darkness which I haven't read before.
#162, Carolyn (I hope): I loved The Dispossessed as well, although it did not quite grab me the way The Left Hand of Darkness did. It's another in her exploration of social and gender issues, written about the same time as The Left Hand of Darkness . I knew about her mother and have always ...
I loved your review of The Left Hand of Darkness .. it's on my wishlist now.
... 'I must have that book immediately' one, just quietly interested in The Moon is Down.
I felt somewhat the same about The Left Hand of Darkness until I got to their journey over the glacier, and then it came alive to me.
#155: The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my all-time favorite books. My current copy is autographed by LeGuin herself on December 2, 1982, at a seminar we both attended in Portland, OR. At the time, her exploration of gender roles was really avant-garde; now it's old hat or even passé. But ...
... interesting - a study in contrasts of Northerners and Southerners primarily through literature; highly recommended
266. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin - I think if I had been reading this book on my own, I would have put it down at the 50-page mark; I realize that this book ...
Book 59:
Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness
999 Sci-Fi category (6/28/09)
PL 345 pages
I bought the special 25th anniversary edition when it first came out in 1994 fully intending to read it then. But that was the year of the big “upheaval” when after living 25 years in ...
... Trilogy by Issac Azimov. I'm exploring Science Fiction and Fantasy this year. Have you ever read it? I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness last week (review is on my 999 thread)--reading the comments on the LT page for The Gods Themselves there seems to be one element of the alien ...
Book 59:
Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness
999 Sci-Fi category (6/28/09)
PL 345 pages
I bought the special 25th anniversary edition when it first came out in 1994 fully intending to read it then. But that was the year of the big “upheaval” when after living 25 years ...
Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed both deserve to be included, I believe--UKL made such a difference in introducing social science into SF (not the first to do so, I'm sure, but the first to take it seriously?), not to mention gender issues and Taoism, and we even get to see the ...
... 451 and Brave New World several years ago, but I don't remember too much about them at the moment.
I'm reading The Left Hand of Darkness , and enjoying that, particularly the social ideas.
I read Glasshouse and thought that had some great ideas - not just gender dysphoria but ...
... movie and liked it, so it's already on my TBR. It's where I also first heard about Ursula Le Guin and that's why I read The Left Hand of Darkness this year. For the latter, I'm one of those people who haven't gotten around to it yet, but I am really regretting it!
I am currently reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
... Thankfully, as the author apparently noted, it was short.
Elsewhere: Also, I going to have to support the anti-rec for The Left Hand of Darkness . I'm sure the book was influential and groundbreaking when it came out but after hearing so often how important it was as a gender study and a ...
12: The Left Hand of Darkness
The fact that I read most of this book while bedridden with some sort of tonsilitisy fever and enjoyed it is a testament to Le Guin's skill. Between this and Ender's Game I may have read more science fiction (with the exception of the Hitchiker's Guide ...
#56: I will be reading Left Hand in mid-June. The only other LeGuin I have read prior to this week was the first book in the Earthsea series. I really need to complete that series :)
... many more books, I think my absolute favorites will always be the first three Earthsea books, followed extremely closely by The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
... a couple of lucid chapters.
I'm another who will stick up for Consider Phlebas (one of my all-time favourites) and The Left Hand of Darkness (one of my all-time favourites ... as well).
... Clarke (I tried this one quite recently...)
Anti-anti-recommendations (stuff that was mentioned above but I like it):
* The Left Hand of Darkness
* Consider Phlebas
So, who will be the first to come up with anti-anti-anti recommendations? :D
... very overrated.
Heinlein - some more than others, but stranger in a strange land I wouldn't recommend to anyone.
Left hand of darkness ditto. It was probably groundbreaking when it was writen 40 years ago, but it's just dull and meaningless today.
Don't know if Stephenson's baroque ...
I haven't seen a vote for The Left Hand of Darkness . While The Dispossessed is an easier read, I thought LHoD was deeper and more significant in terms of introducing social science to SF. I also don't see The Book of the New Sun, which if I remember correctly just sneaks by the time ...
... ualify)
and a Strugatsky novel but I can't make my mind up which!
Runners-up:
The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Empire Star by Samuel Delany (it's a bit short to be called a novel though... ...
Is it one of the guys from Left Hand of Darkness ? It's been ages since I've read it, but the clues might fit with my scattered memories. (I wouldn't necessarily call either of them a "most famous character" though...especially since I can't even remember their names...)
I've finished The Left Hand of Darkness and it's taken me rather a long time for a relatively short book. Partly this is because we had visitors, but it's also because try as I might, I don't seem to be able to embrace the genre of science fiction/fantasy and really enjoy it. This is a book my ...
... and another serious book might keep the intensity going at too much of a pitch for too long. Eventually I decided to read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin. This is a book my other half is always recommending (he re-reads it every year or so himself), and so I thought I'd give it a go. ...
Read so far...
Stephen's picks
1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin (27th May)
3. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T.E. Carhart (30 June)
4. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (26 July)
5. Under the Paw by Tom Cox (28 July)
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... on a post-apocalyptic work were much less impressed.
It brings to mind Ursula K. LeGuin, who has written books like Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven that are not traditional sci-fi novels, but LeGuin uses a sci-fi stage for her characters and convictions. IMHO
PS As I ...
The Left Hand of Darkness is one I am planning to read this year. I am glad to know that the book improves after a slow start.
... I hadn't come across Graham Joyce, Gene Wolfe or Carol Emshwiller at all before. I've read Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed and the Earthsea books were among my favourite as a child. I must admit before looking on LT I hadn't realised that she's ...
Updated with The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin.
This was a bit slow to start, but the depth of the book really shows in the latter half. Excellent book, though the best of the SF Masterworks so far is tied between The Forever War and The Fifth Head of Cerberus, in my opinion.
... you like to try this time?
As a starter, here's the ballot from the last go-round (minus the winner, or course):
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Solstice Wood by ...
... more standard.
Ursula LeGuin is a holdover from another age, practically. I'm a tremendous fan of hers and consider The Left Hand of Darkness a superb book, one that I reread occasionally if only for the marvelous crossing of the ice part, which is so incredibly good. plus her depiction ...
... can the next fantasy I read not be a disappointment? So I've stayed away from the genre so far: bending my rule only for The Left Hand of Darkness , which turned out to be really good. Maybe Tigana will be my next "exception". :)
Still to come this year, I have Stranger in a Strange Land, Second Stage Lensman, Jack of Eagles, The Left Hand of Darkness , To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Lord Valentine's Castle and Radix. Some of them I'm expecting to be pants. No prizes for guessing which ones.
A Canticle for Leibowitz isn't in the SF Masterworks series. Neither is The Left Hand of Darkness . Or are you including the short-lived hardback SF Masterworks series?
... read through as many of the SF Masterworks series to get my fix.
I just finished The Stars My Destination. Next up is The Left Hand of Darkness . Depending on how much reading time I can pull together this month, I hope to also read A Canticle for Leibowitz, I Am Legend, Cities in Flig ...
Some votes for books I would recommend to someone interested in literature, but new to science fiction:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
Roadside Picnic by Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky
The Invincible ...
... than you would first think.
Jumper by Steven Gould works at getting you into the kid's head and really romps along.
The Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin is excellent at putting you in the position as an observer of a new culture.
Grey by Jon Armstrong is hilarious, putting you in the ...
... Game by Orson Scott Card is brilliant, and one of the few books I could get both my father and younger brother to read
- Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin, which has one of the most imaginative worlds I've seen in SF and a fascinating take on gender
- Hitchhiker's Guide, obviously
- ...
... is horribly clunky in a faux-medieval way.
If you don't like LeGuin, do you mean the Earthsea series? Why not try Left Hand of Darkness which is a different proposition altogether.
... is horribly clunky in a faux-medieval way.
If you don't like LeGuin, do you mean the Earthsea series? Why not try Left Hand of Darkness which is a different proposition altogether.
I've read the classics, Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. I found them interesting intellectually, but they didn't capture me. Oh, and I've read Earthsea, of course. But so long ago that I don't remember it. That might be worth a reread...
32: The humans in The Left Hand of Darkness
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Le Guin is quite a variable author for me. The Dispossessed and Lathe of Heaven are among my favourite SF novels, but Left Hand of Darkness ... It's currently one of the top ten recommended novels in the "newcomer to SF list", but I cannot see why at all - the three gender idea was okay, ...
... that is Library Thing and found your thread. And I'm leaving here with Franny and Zooey on my to read list, as well as The Left Hand of Darkness . This place is dangerous to one's TBR pile!
>122: Here, here! Down with homogenization! Plus, I find changing it vaguely insulting--as if I' ...
... King and Other Stories.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
So far, I Know This Much Is True. And The Left Hand of Darkness .
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Franny and Zooey. Though 90% of the people I would force to ...
... already listed, mine are:
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Edited by Robert Silverberg
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
The Ophiuchi Hotlin ...
... Orwell
Little Brother--Cory Doctorow (for teens who've read/know about 1984)
The Illustrated Man--Ray Bradbury
Left Hand of Darkness --Ursula LeGuin
Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card (again for teens)
Book of the New Sun--Gene Wolfe
Farenheit 451--Ray Bradbury
Y:The Last Man- ...
... I welcome as a reader.
I might give such a new reader some info with my selections, in order to enable her to choose:
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed: trust and betrayal, gender issues; introduction of social science into SF.
The Stars My Destination and The Demolishe ...
... is human' tradition. In that category I nominate:
Rite of Passage by Alexi Panshin
Babel-17 by Samuel R Delany
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Sector General by James White
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
Enemy Mine by not_Kay Hooper_/ Barry Lon ...
... and salt KSR
10. the golden nineties lisa mason
11. Fairyland Paul McAuley
12. of tangible ghosts Modesitt
13. left hand of darkness
14. Night sky mine Scott (teens)
15. There and back again pat murphy
16. 13 Richard Morgan
... for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
ETA: *smacks self on forehead*
How could I have forgotten Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness ?
... No, I do not generally plan books that far in advance, although I do have a 'must-read' list for this year. In the case of The Left Hand of Darkness since I am reading it along with Carolyn, we plan when we can read that fits into both our schedules.
Generally speaking, my advance planning ...
#4: Carolyn (MusicMom41) and I are going to be reading Left Hand of Darkness in May. I hope we enjoy it as much as you and Eliza did.
...
Here we go:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: ★★★★1/2
Genre: Science Fiction – New Wave
GirlUnderGlass and I read this as part of her “March – Mo ...
... Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
10. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
11. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
12. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
13. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
14. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
15. The Walking Dead Compendium Vo ...
... Bear
Carnival - Elizabeth Bear
The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Algebraist - Iain M. Banks
Welcome Chaos - Kate Wilhelm
The Fresco - Sheri S. Tepper
Thirteen - Richard K. Morg ...
... Scott Card
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Light by M. John Harrison
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Solari ...
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Ring by Stephen Baxter
The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
The Left Hand of Darkness Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
City by Clifford D ...
... Tale. This is one of my recent favourites. I'm really looking forward to your thoughts on it, especially after reading The Left Hand of Darkness , which seemed to me to touch on some similar themes.
Re: other CanLit. Someone recommended Timothy Findley and that reminded me of his novel Th ...
I have been out of town, so I have not been keeping up. I have a couple of books to add.
#12 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
#13 Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur
Reviews to come ... .
... in that genre because I like The Time Machine so much. I don't know if I will continue in that genre, last year I read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin and really enjoyed it. It turns out Le Guin wrote a series that I might start reading called Earthsea. I have so many books ...
... the Art of Death
57. McPherson, James: The Battle Cry of Freedom
58. Lowry, Lois: The Giver
59. Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness
60. McCrumb, Sharon: Zombies of the Gene Pool
61. Bly, Robert: Morning Poems
Books Read PL: 4 (Pages: 1,763)
Books Read other: 5 (Pag ...
Eliza, I've added The Left Hand of Darkness to my list.
Amy, I agree with you. The BFG is also my favorite Dahl book. It was so delightfully sweet... right or left?
Tiffin I was looking for a goal for April. I think I will read Neil Gaiman's books.
Definitely The Left Hand of Darkness .
... 7
Nancy Pearl's Book Lust: 4
Q1 Top Five:
1. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
2. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
3. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
4. Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
5. Jazz by Toni Morrison (ha! - just for the ...
... fiction, though #1 is only marginally so.
4, 6, 7, 8, 9 are fantasy.
In my opinion.
I would classify both Left Hand of Darkness and Barrayar as science fiction.
On the subject of where to start with Cherryh: it kind of depends if you want to give her a try and not chew up ...
... The Blue Sword (3/29/09)
The Campbell, Cook and Bradbury books are all scifi. Are any of the others?
When I read The Left Hand of Darkness how should I classify it? Also, Barrayar?
Thanks for helping! :-)
7. The Left hand of Darkness
8. The Book Thief
... some of the more recent short story collections.
2. Bester, both TSMD and The Demolished Man.
3. LeGuin, particularly The Left Hand of Darkness .
4. Patricia McKillip, better known for her fantasy, wrote one SF novel that I've seen, called Fool's Run. For some reason I read it every so ...
... ers....
#50: Of course I loved it! Was there any doubt? Hehehe... Funny enough, I checked out Wikipedia after I had read Left Hand as well! I was surprised by the indepth review of it; Wikipedia often only has summaries for books. I did think the gender subheading was pretty spot on and ...
... them as they originally came out, therefore in publication order by default. I think I read the Hainish novels first, then Left Hand of Darkness when it came out and wowed everyone, and then The Dispossessed. Perhaps my favorite one of her SF works, however, is Always Coming Home, which is ...
So far I'm finding this book slow going, but I can't exactly pinpoint why. The pack mentality was interesting. It made me think of the Borg except that the smaller size of the pack made for more profound implications when an individual was lost. It was a real effort to make a truly alien alien.
...
... I only knew where it was because I ran across it last year when I had the very same question. (I had just finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness for the first time.)
Wonderful review of The Left Hand of Darkness !
Everyone should go read the HOT REVIEW of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness on the Home page by girlunderglass. It is a fantastic review, actually doing justice to this extraordinary book.
I noticed her review. Just a heads up, The Left Hand of Darkness is the last book in the Hainish Cycle. The Dispossessed is the first. I'm fairly certain they don't need to be read in order (I only noticed it because I happened to wiki The Dispossessed to try and figure out a little bit of what ...
... My Destination - Alfred Bester
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
Cyteen - C.J. Cherryh
Harpman
Escapement - Jay Lake
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Engines of God - Jack McDevitt
An Abyss of Light - Kathleen M. O'Neal
Air - Geoff Ryman
Roadside Picnic - Arkady ...
... suggested this last night). Two I propose for consideration for August are, The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Resisting the temptation to put Left Hand of Darkness in the TBR pile to re-read.
A third book for gender roles is Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness . Unlike the other two I mentioned, this book is set on a planet where the "normal" inhabitants are hermaphroditic. This ambiguity lets the author play with gender roles quite a bit. Plus, it's a good story. :-)
... big awards, the Hugo and the Nebula, and only three authors (I think) have done it more than once. Le Guin was one with The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. She's also got maybe seven or so other science fiction books, some of them quite good.
She's definitely a science ...
... my 'Favourite Books' list - I think I've read it two or three times at least now.
Thanks GUG for the brilliant review of Left Hand of Darkness - I've been intrigued about it since The Jane Austen Book Club but haven't come across it in bookshops or the library. I'll definitely be getting ...
One title that caused quite the stir in my book club (all adult women) was The Left Hand of Darkness . We read it last year and it still gets our vote for our best discussion yet.
Shelley's Frankenstein is quite different from the popular movie. You could do a compare/contrast, in addition ...
... for stopping by - The Secret History probably ranks as my number three of my best reads so far this year, with two being The Left Hand of Darkness and number one being I Know This Much Is True ! Hope you enjoy it :)
... thing just went and DISAPPEARED on me when I tried to post it. That'll teach me. So I'll keep it short: great review on The Left Hand of Darkness . Will try to keep it in mind when am ready for Sci Fi. Hope you enjoy The Handmaid's Tale as it's one of my favourites by Margaret Atwood ...
Hey, wanted to let you know that I finished The Left Hand of Darkness as well! What a book! (review on my thread of course) So when are you going to post yours? I'm really curious if you enjoyed it as much as I did!
Oh and, as usual, after I finished the book, I went over to wikipedia and ...
... w...
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tags: 1960s, fiction, sci-fi, U.S.A.
Rating: ★★★★1/2
"Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is non-ex ...
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tags: 1960s, fiction, sci-fi, U.S.A.
Rating: ★★★★1/2
"Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is non-existent ...
... My Destination - Alfred Bester
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
Cyteen - C.J. Cherryh
Harpman
Escapement - Jay Lake
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Engines of God - Jack McDevitt
An Abyss of Light - Kathleen M. O'Neal
Air - Geoff Ryman
Roadside Picnic - Arkady ...
I got three books yesterday -- all used: The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin, Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, and Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer.
aww thanks so much you guys!
I want to make an observation on The Left Hand of Darkness so far. I realized I just LOVE invented languages. In the book the characters sometimes use Gethenian words, (whose meaning is explained to us, of course) and it adds so much to the authenticity of their ...
Congrats on finishing your exams!
I finished Left Hand of Darkness ... haven't quite figured out what I'm going to rate it. Tt's hard because I don't know what to say about it; I'm letting it stew in my brain for awhile. So many underlying themes she packed in there to think about...
... all of the Earthsea books, and really liked the first two but less so the last two. I see differing opinions here about The Left Hand of Darkness as opposed to others by her, so I will probably try a couple of them when I have time. (Time? HaHaHa!) Tales From Earthsea looks like a good ...
... somewhere. Again difficult to put a finger precisely on where my problems with it were.
I really didn't get on with Left hand of darkness I just couldn't see why it recieves any aclaim. At the time sure I guess it was challenging, but now? Not at all, and so many more worthy ...
urania, thanks for the recommendations. I will look at The Telling--I was going to try The Left Hand of Darkness , too.
And to you and whoever else might be reading, here is my review of The Children by David Halberstam (719 pages; Fawcett paperback edition):
In 1959, James Lawson, a Met ...
... read A Wizard of Earthsea about two years ago, and I liked it, but I wasn’t terribly impressed at the time. Then I read The Left Hand of Darkness and liked it a little better…and now, with The Tombs of Atuan , I was blown away. Honestly, I can’t think of a single thing I didn’t ...
Left Hand of Darkness is on my list for 2009--I plan to get to it around May. My older son has been trying to get me to read it for several years. Since this is the year I'm concentrating on SciFi/Fantasy (it's beginning to look like that category will end up a double category!) it seemed like ...
... Pratchett
♦ Emma by Jane Austen
♦ Enter Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
♦ Jazz by Toni Morrison
♦ The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, which I've already started and am enjoying very much so far!
I will maybe add some more, depending on how much time my ...
just started The Left Hand of Darkness and I'm really enjoying it so far!
... never done anyone any harm and I've heard a lot of praise for this woman here on LT. I think I might start my month with The Left Hand of Darkness too - in which case we'll be reading it almost simultaneously :D I do have an exam on Wednesday though so I have strict rules about not reading ...
... :) Romance just tends to bookend whatever non-romance book I'm reading.
Actually, looking at your #163...I just started The Left Hand of Darkness because I can't believe I had never heard of Ursula K. Le Guin back when I read a ton of SF. If you pick that book, I'd love to hear your ...
... - C.J. Cherryh
Neuromancer - William Gibson
I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman
Escapement - Jay Lake
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Engines of God - Jack McDevitt
An Abyss of Light - Kathleen M. O'Neal
A Dream Of Wessex - Christopher Priest
Air ...
... - C.J. Cherryh
Neuromancer - William Gibson
I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman
Escapement - Jay Lake
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Engines of God - Jack McDevitt
An Abyss of Light - Kathleen M. O'Neal
A Dream Of Wessex - Christopher Priest
Air ...
>107 Tim: You cited my favorite passage in The Left Hand of Darkness . Have you read the revision of The Left Hand of Darkness in which Le Guin shifts back and forth between third person singular pronouns? I read the original in which she uses the masculine pronoun for all of the people on ...
I'll second Stranger in a Strange Land.
I nominate:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lights in the Sky Are Stars by Fredric Brown
Escapement by Jay Lake
In Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness members of a subspecies of humans are normally gender-neutral but can become male or female temporarily.
In C.J. Cherryh's Faded Sun series, the Regul have no gender as young, and develop into male or female in response to the dominant ...
... 104 and 105, you posted while I was writing the pocket epic that is #106, hence the slightly delayed reply.
reading_fox, The Left Hand of Darkness does seem to polarise people! I loved it the first time I read it and enjoyed it just as much on re-reading. The absolute highlight of the book ...
Dhalgren, The Female Man, The Left Hand of Darkness , Riddley Walker, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, The Man in the High Castle.
... my husband and daughter. That's enough too.
Steinbeck I read in high school and that's recent enough.
Tried LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness and just didn't like it.
I have never read a King book, don't have any, and don't feel the need to. Although I do love his son's Heart-Shaped ...
... know or which I've enjoyed more than what I've read of Asimov before that I'm afraid it's not a priority read.
Oh, and The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin, which falls under the first category. ^-^
... Arbonne, but it seems bound not to win.
I was intrigued by The Watchmen so I have ordered a copy.
And I have read Left Hand of Darkness a couple of times.
Sooo, I have one vote and it goes to....Song for Arbonne (just in case there is a sudden interest in it :)
If we're going to do a watchmen thread anyway, I'll vote for Left hand of darkness . That solved my dilemma! ;-)
Also, *friendly waving at jdthloue*
... through her different universes. I would also recommend The Dispossessed - right now I'm trying to get around to reading The Left Hand of Darkness before the library tries to steal it back from me!
Left Hand of Darkness
Left hand of darkness too as it's on my to-read pile...
I vote for The Left Hand of Darkness . I have the book and it's been in the TBR pile for quite a while.
Please vote for only ONE!
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
Watchmen ...
... to consult JPB. Oh wait, we do have a klingon in our midst! :)
There are so many good books mentioned above. I have The Left Hand of Darkness , The Eyre Affair, and Watchman on my TBR list.
... might even be able to get the hubby to join in...
ETA: curses, I'm not meant to be voting yet. Hmmmm.
Can I nominate The Left Hand of Darkness ? It's on my TBR, and it fits in with the Hugo winner theme at least!
Many of Ursula K. LeGuin's science fiction books are explorations of social sciences: The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness , Rocannon's World, and so on.
A fair number of Heinlein's books deal with sciences other than physics, although they tend to be fairly political - Assig ...
... by Gene Wolfe
In Green's Jungles by Gene Wolfe
Return to the Whorl by Gene Wolfe
The Telling by Ursula K Leguin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Leguin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Leguin
Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis
Perelandra by CS Lewis
That Hideous Streng ...
In no particular order:
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K.Le Guin
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
House of Stairs by William Sleator
I haven't read The Left Hand of Darkness ,
But I have read A Curse Dark as Gold
I haven't read The Sun also Rises
But I have read The Left Hand of Darkness
... around to reading her works and she certainly fits in that rarefied (at least to me!) atmosphere she was born to. I have Left hand of Darkness slated to read for my 999 fantasy category and I also own The Dispossessed and The Wizard of Earthsea which I may have to add to that challenge ...
I think I need to go back and read The Left Hand of Darkness again. Somehow I didn't get much out of it!! The Dispossessed is on my tbr pile and I'll certainly keep a look out for some of the other things mentioned here.
... is not, however, gender-driven, try Ursula LeGuin's THe Dispossessed. Joyce, re: your recommendation of leGuin's Left Hand of Darkness in message 71, you probably read it as I did, shortly after it was originally published. Like you, I continue to recommend it, but FWIW, in ...
#71: I think the only book I have ever read by LeGuin was the first book in the Earthsea series. I will look for The Left Hand of Darkness as well.
Would you like a reading copy? I could send you one and then you would not have to read the one you are so carefully preserving.
A very interesting exploration on gender and roles is Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness . It's "sci-fi" but LeGuin is a master at using sci-fi and fantasy as media for exploring social issues. This was written decades ago, but it a beautiful book. I reread it every few years but ...
I read The Left Hand of Darkness last year and would have to agree with you - I loved the idea of the book but couldn't engage with the characters. I really liked her YA book Gifts and there are now a couple of others in this series that I've still to read.
The Road - I read it when everyone ...
7. Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
... it means to be trans in today's society, as well as an examination of femininity and feminism from a trans perspective.
The Left Hand of Darkness , by Ursula Le Guin
Interesting science fiction novel dealing with an hermaphroditic race. While Storm Constantine deals with the hermaphroditic ...
... or five short stories published here and there.
I like most, though not all, LeGuin. I would definitely give The Left Hand of Darkness a try and then The Dispossessed...they're very good. Some people love The Lathe of Heaven; I merely enjoyed it. I enjoyed Rocannon's World ...
... of the "same old thing")
3. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (who doesn't love nano with a dash of steampunk?)
4. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin (whoever said this was one of the best social-sf books ever -- ditto!)
5. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (science ...
... I'll certainly read the sequel. Review here .
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - I'd originally placed this under Short Books, but I think it carried far more weight than the page count would indicate. ...
sjmccreary, I blame my fall from grace from reading fiction literally on Ursula LeGuin. Years ago, I read an edition of The Left Hand of Darkness with an introduction by the author on fiction. Paraphrasing, she said all fiction authors were liars and tried to manipulate the readers thoughts ...
... with The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll. It was a longish but readable historical paranormal romance.
Next up was The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. I found it worthwhile, but it felt like it took me forever to read it.
I made a quick stop-over with P. Craig Russe ...
>24, Thanks urania! I am planning to read The Left Hand of Darkness for inclusion in at least one of the 999 categories - someone told me it could also work for the Cold Places category. I will check out The End of Mr. Y, which I have never heard of!
... choices for the 999 challenge. Might I suggest a couple of titles: The End of Mr. Y, which I think is brilliant, and The Left Hand of Darkness , which can also be categorized as science fiction.
#s 36-42: some very interesting comments here - thanks, everybody!
Ursula Le Guin: I agree with The Left Hand of Darkness as a good introduction, or The Earthsea Trilogy and its successors. I haven't read The Telling.
Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr: urania1, I'm intrigued by your ...
Oh yes, The Left Hand of Darkness is wonderful. I like The Dispossessed but it might seem a bit polemical for first-time readers.
Oh, I would definitely recommend The Dispossessed first, because that is my favorite book of hers, but her most famous is The Left Hand of Darkness . But really, I haven't read anything by her that I didn't love.
... I ever seen. From "Nightfall" to "The Star" to "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" you get the classic works of the genre.
4) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - One of the best of the "soft" or social science fiction novels.
5) Neuromancer by William Gibson - The cyberpunk ...
... Tales From Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
By the Sea - by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Thanks!
Ursula K LeGuinn rocks, and The Left hand of Darkness is her masterpiece. Everyone probably knows that Alfred Kroeber (the founder of American Anthropology) was her father yes? She grew up around many of the leading anthropological theorists of the 20th century, at Cal.
... it when I'm not trying to figure out what's going to happen and can concentrate on the parallels of the two stories.
Left Hand of Darkness is on my 999 list for this year (I already own it and have never read it and I will look into your other suggestions.
>9 and following: So, we have another fan...good!
If I remember correctly from the threads last year, you have Left Hand of Darkness in your SF/Fantasy category for this year. As Roni intimates, I think you'll find it similar in that it's a an examination of society rather than "hard" science ...
#11: I think LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness is a masterpiece. I've one through 3 copies; one, my 2nd one, I don't read anymore because it's autographed by LeGuin--it's now a National Treasure, as far as I'm concerned. At the time it came out--what, 25-30 years ago?--no one was looking at ...
... Haden Elgin's Native Tongue or Sheri Tepper's Gibbons Decline and Fall or Women's Country or Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness . All societal or cultural explorations rather than space opera--not that space opera isn't a lot of fun too. It's that sensawunda that keeps us ...
... the 1997 revised and updated version (1/13/09)
4. Stephenson, Neal: The Diamond Age (1/30/09)
5. Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness (6/28/09)
6. Willis, Connie: To Say Nothing of the Dog (8/02/09)
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Category 5: Fantasy
1. Cook, Glen: Sweet Silver Blues ...
... k)
3. The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller- May (audiobook)
4. Second Chance by Jane Green- June (audiobook)
5. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin- July
6. Rosary Murders by William X. Kienzle- July
7. So Far From God by Ana Castillo- October
8. Gard ...
I finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness last week, and finished The Road this morning. Haven't decided what to read next. I won't get most of my Christmas books until later in the week when I visit my parents.
In the meantime, I'll likely continue to read some short stories from The Sa ...
For my 2008 888 Challenge, I over-planned and underachived. For 2009, I am giving myself a break and making it easier and more flexible. If I really do no overlaps (no guarantee on that), this will be 81 books, which is pretty much my maximum for a year. Between work, life, and my natural ...
#4 Finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness .
Finished reading A scanner darkly over the weekend. Now I'm reading The left hand of darkness .
... or because they actually are some of my favorite books:
Witches' Brew
The Handmaid's Tale
The Poisonwood Bible
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Hobbit
Of these books the only one I had read previously was of course, The Hobbit which is one of my favorite books I like to go back ...
... ntasy
1. Area 51 by Robert Doherty *
2. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
3. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
4. Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin *
5. Ringworld by Larry Niven *
6. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
7. Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
8 ...
... one looks like I will like it.
Riddlemaster Trilogy was highly recomended by either TadAD or ronincats or both (as was Left Hand of Darkness --my son also recommended that and I own it, because i like Ursala Le Guin) But I don't own it and it is awfully long. However i will probably try ...
... Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog which is truly long and boring and pointless.
But then you get to read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, Lord of Light (my sentimental favorite) by Roger Zelazny, and The Moon I ...
3. Miscellaneous Fiction:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
... John Wyndham (08/01/09)
7. Little, Big, John Crowley
8. Farthing, Jo Walton (19/01/09)
9. Left Hand of Darkness , Ursula Le Guin
46. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin in Hungarian
46. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin in Hungarian
Amazing...
... nitpicking. Oh, dear.)
Looking for Jake and Other Stories by China Miéville (made a friend go "o_O" so now I'm wary)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin (I'm finally losing the battle against my dad's "Just must read these!")
Mother Goose, Or Nursery Rhymes as illustrated by K ...
... right to have Dune and The Martian Chronicles on the list. They are must-trys for anyone sampling science fiction. The Left Hand of Darkness is LeGuin's best science fiction, in my opinion, and you should either have it or one of her fantasy books (see below). Since I was one of the ...
... Magician (adv. of Nicholas Flamel series) (I read The Alchemyst this year; younger son recommended))
Le Guin, Ursala: The Left Hand of Darkness (older son wants me to)
Herbert, Frank: Dune (older son wants me to)
Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury recommended to me and ...
#13 agree on Canticle. I would also rate several other books higher than Foundation or Ender, including The Left Hand of Darkness , The Stars My Destination, and The Book of the New Sun.
... and added a strong emphasis on character. Some of her best characters are Shevek in The Dispossessed, Estraven in The Left Hand of Darkness , and Ged and Tenar in the Earthsea books.
Strong agreement, by the way, on Guy Kay.
... The Magician (Nicholas Flamel series)
3. Heinlein, Robert: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
4. Le Guin, Ursala: The Left Hand of Darkness READ 2009
5. Herbert, Frank: Dune
6. Kay, Guy Gavriel: Tigana READ 2009
7. McKillip, Patricia: Riddle Master Trilogy
8. Miller, Wal ...
... them, especially after what you have said. I was possibly going to leave it at the first!
have just finished
44. The Left Hand of Darkness - 3/5 - Sci-Fi (Other World)
Despite a slightly shaky start, and a difficulty in initially caring about any of the characters, by the end ...
Oh.............and I'm reading The Left Hand of Darkness
I'm on Winter now, somewhere in the Universe in The Left Hand of Darkness
... Heaven. Also, I notice that you like science fiction and Ursula K. Le Guin. One of her books is a VMC as well: The Left Hand of Darkness . You may want to check those out, as they might be familiar territory and serve as a good transition into the wonderful world of Viragos!! I'm ...
... I have 2 more besides Blaze: The Magician by Michael Scott (my son is lending me his because he wants me to read it) and The Left Hand of Darkness (because my older son wanted me to read it this year and I didn't get around to it.)
This is a category I read mostly to please my sons (Tol ...
SF: Book of the New Sun, Left Hand of Darkness ,The Stars My Destination
Fantasy: The Odyssey, {Lord of the Rings, The Worm Ouroboros
Lit: Huck Finn, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Romance: The Lions of al-Rassan
Humor: A Confederacy of Dunces, Freddy and Fredericka
humor ...
44. Finished The Left Hand of Darkness . Fantastic. As anoher reviewer said "not a lot happens in this book" so don't expect a fast moving thriller. What sets this book apart is its meticulous attention to the creation of another world with its culture. Nothing has been ignored and yet in ...
... further into her work, assuming you haven't already, may I suggest Rocannon's World if you like the tone of Earthsea, and the Left Hand of Darkness if you like the political/ideological landscape of them?
Somewhere upthread someone mentioned Cesare Pavese's great novel The Moon and the ...
Today I got.........
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Sword of Shannara..........was especially pleased with The Left Hand of Darkness as I'd been trying to mooch it and it wasn't available!!
... possibly Brave New World. Other sfnal books included Lord of the Flies and various Roald Dahl horror stories.
I used Left Hand of Darkness for an exernal exam in sixth form, but it wasn't the book we'd studied for it in class. But I know there were multiple copies of Tombs of Atuan in ...
Ursala Le Guin comes to mind. 'Literary' authors like Margaret Atwood and Michael Chabon as well.
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Most Alternate History and Dystopian novels have little science at all.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Speaking of Virginia and Vita, I'm reading Orlando right now. Also about to start The Left Hand of Darkness and Melusine.
... murder, Greasing the Pinata: A Cape Weathers Investigation by Tim Maleeny, on my commute I am on the planet Gethen in The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, and at home I am in 19th century New Orleans roaming the streets with Benjamin January in search of a murderer {A Free Man ...
'Tis my favorite store. 50% off the cover price. I picked up The Left Hand of Darkness for 80 cents during a 20% off sale. ($1.95 cover price.) :D
... trilogy last year, and found it to be fairly dull and juvenile. (Though Tombs of Atuan was decent.)
Then I read The Left Hand of Darkness during a sick day last month. It was good, but nothing spectacular. It seemed to me to be mostly some political intrigue followed by half a book's ...
... vacation that I spent on campus writing my senior thesis, I escaped into Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan. I loved Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness and read some of Anne McCaffrey. Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood was intriguing. And there's Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Do ...
... I think my first female-authored SF was likely Kate Wilhelm, perhaps Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang but Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness could not have been far behind. From there I launched into feminist SF (loosely defined as SF which might deal with women's roles in society) with ...
I'm struggling through Left hand of darkness I know it's supposed to be a classic. But like many classics frankly it's just dull. Not a lot happens to some quite dull people, set in some surprisingly dull alien cultures. It could be so good, but I'm nearly at the end of it and it just doesn't ...
... know that another LeGuinian has entered the fold! I adore her prose. I hope you'll continue your exploration...perchance The Left Hand of Darkness will appeal?
>32 hemlok, hey there dearie, I hope Miss Fitzgerald has woven her web of beautiful words around your readerly heart. I loved The ...
... in the wild. This is how I found out about her and read one of her early works but I can't remember the name. I do have The Left hand of Darkness which I bought a couple of years ago and plan to read this year. I also have the first book in the Earthsea series which I also plan to read.
... a collection of her essays?
Several years ago, when I was browsing in the library, a stranger came up to me recommending The Left Hand of Darkness . I didn't take her up on her recommendation, but I've since reconsidered. I've bought a copy and hope to get to it soon :o)
9.The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
10. The Anglophile by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
11.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
12.A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolf
13.Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful by Alfred Hitchcock
I know there must be some more which I ...
9.The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
10. The Anglophile by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
11.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
12.A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolf
13.Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful by Alfred Hitchcock
I know there must be some more which I ...
timnog, how about Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin? She's one of my favorite authors and I've heard great things about that work, but it's still on my tbr pile as of now, so I'd love to hear your opinion.
On my end, I can report that I've finished Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult ...
Finished Shadow of the Torturer, although I'm still digesting it; almost all the way through Left Hand of Darkness and absolutely loving it; just started George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones and still too early to tell what I think.
Outside of Sci-Fi/Fantasy, I'm re-reading The Prince ...
... at once. Very good, but one that probably needs a second read to appreciate how all those pieces settle together.
#32: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
This is one that I actually assigned for my class and I have never been more glad that I did. Classic -- flawless -- and ...
... that i won't live without. in no order:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
... Haldeman
Foundation - Asimov
Frankenstein - Shelley
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
Kindred - Butler
Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
Neuromancer - Gibson
Nine Billion Names of God - Clarke
Out of the Silent Planet - Lewis
Philip K. Dick Reader* - Dick
Red Mars ...
... llamy
West of Eden : Harry Harrison
Eternity Road : Jack McDevitt
A Canticle for Leibowitz : Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Left Hand of Darkness : Ursula le Guin
This Alien Shore : C. S. Friedman
Alas, Babylon : Pat Frank
Dhalgren : Samuel R. Delany
Treason : Orson Scott Card
Rainb ...
>104 jdthloue, The Left Hand of Darkness is a superb book...but knowing what I know of booklady's tastes, I think Orsinian Tales will stand a better chance of luring her into the vile den of SF that she squeamishly avoids. (She's not reading this, is she?)
As to high-schhol cliquishness...we ...
okay..i will try this again
>..#103...you don't mentionThe Left Hand of Darkness .....uh..to me, an Older Lady..that is her Bellwether..by which all else is..judged..am i stupid or what?...be very careful in how you answer that question, sir..my mind has a very long reach..and i will paralyze ...
#142 richardderus - I've read The Left Hand of Darkness for one of my high school English classes, and even though my partner and I had to churn out a bunch of essays and do a ton of research on it, I actually enjoyed it, even though I'm not a huge fan of science fiction.
... the rest of Orsinian Tales last night, his first LeGuin if one can imagine living 35 years on the planet without reading The Left Hand of Darkness or A Wizard of Earthsea, and he's keeping the entire set I vacuumed up at my own yard sale (a friend's donation). I grudge it not, a convert to ...
...
11.THE FOREVER WAR; Joe Haldeman
12. Beggars and Choosers Nancy Kress
13. A Wrinkle in Time; Madeleine L'Engle
14. The Left Hand of Darkness ; Ursula K. Le Guin
15. As She Climbed Across the Table; Jonathan Lethem
16,Magic for Beginners; Kelly Link
17.The Golden Nineties; Lisa M ...
... Sub-genre as much as you want.
* Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
* Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
* The Left Hand of Darkness , Ursula Le Guin
* Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler
* A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller Jr.
* Snow Crash, Neal S ...
... considering he was never that great in the first place is very bad. (For the record, I'm not a big of Bradbury either).
The Left Hand of Darkness is excellent: should be on any list on top sf novels.
*Since the list ended in 1984 - what novels published since do people think would, or ...
See, now there you go. The Demolished Man was rubbish, but The Left Hand of Darkness is excellent (IMHO)...
Makes you wonder what's the bloody point of such lists - other than, as Cliff sugggests, generating discussion, argument, screaming & shouting, and violence...
... Moorcock - The Final Programme
Keith Roberts - Pavane
Angela Carter - Heroes and Villains
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Bob Shaw - The Palace of Eternity
Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron
Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
Robert Silverberg - Downward to the Earth ...
... August), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (#74, December) are all teed up thus far. I hope A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Left Hand of Darkness , and The Day of the Triffids follow next year, although if they're already recycling the previously published hardbacks, one does wonder how Orio ...
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Their Eyes Were Watching God
All Mortal Flesh
Legwork
Cat's Eye
can't resist...
The Backside of Yesterday: My Life and Work
Moby (never mind)
... after we ate. So I went down the street and bought After the Quake, which was one of two Murakami books I hadn't read.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin: One of those "classics" of science fiction that I hadn't read.
The Famished Road by Ben Okri. I can't remember where I ...
... enhances the story they are telling: their prose is fit for purpose. Ursula Le Guin's prose (I'm thinking especially of The Left Hand of Darkness and The Earthsea Trilogy) meets that criterion for me. On the other hand, I find Angela Carter's prose, especially in her earlier works, ...
... helpful to know these things. Also "classics" of the genres I'm interested in. I really didn't like Ender's Game or The Left Hand of Darkness , but I finished both of them, and I'm glad I did. Just so that I will have read them.
Last few days: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (pretty good, though I still like most of his novels better), and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin.
Today I'm starting The Famished Road by Ben Okri.
... than the stories in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Might make a good intro to Murakami for a lot of people.
#57: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin. Not really my thing, I think, but I finished it.
... NAFAL drives and all that for the freedom to explore these topics. My all-time favorite of her books, period, is The Left Hand of Darkness a great story--which in addition to a marvelous "chase" sequence has as its main them the way a society would evolve if someone never knew, from ...
... that cope with it. Set in an early industrial world; steamboats, no magic.
Very wellwritten. Not in the league of The Left Hand of Darkness , but not a political statement like Daughters of Egalia. Mostly a romance under unusual circumstances.
Well, Le Guin's most notable books are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed; also the fantasy series beginning with The Wizard of Earthsea (more or less in my mind, YA). They are as good a place as any to start. I have also enjoyed her essays and her poetry.
I must go through and count my non-VMC editions, then! - as I have Agnes Grey, and The Left Hand of Darkness and others. It will up my count and make me feel better. ;)
Perhaps I'll add a tag such as "virago list", vs. "virago modern classics", so they're differentiated, but still ...
1. Dhalgren
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
3. George R.R. Martin}'s Song of Ice and Fire series
4. The Man in the High Castle by Dick
5. The Female Man by Russ
... to carry on via The Urth of the New Sun to the "Long Sun" and "Short Sun" series, when I get (quite a lot of) time!
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
The Watch Below by James White - one of my wife's SF books - she has a much bigger collection of both SF and ...
Can I just wax enthusiastic about picking up a 1969 Walker & Co. hardcover copy of The Left Hand of Darkness (dustjacket w/ Jack Gaughan cover) for $4.00?
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
I was underwhelmed. I spent most of the book wondering when it would get interesting. The world is pretty cool though.
Simon Jennings - The New Artist's Manual
Very useful.
Emily Pohl-Weary - Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Muta ...
Read Left Hand of Darkness and I was far from impressed.
The idea of a relationship between an androgynous person and a single-sexed person sounded interesting, but I could not get into it, because it was not done in an interesting manner at all - it was basically two hundred pages of "we don't ...
There's a TV adaptation of The Left Hand of Darkness ? Or do you mean The Lathe of Heaven?
... I've concluded that Bear's SF is too "hard" for me.)
>9
I have to confess I've never read LeGuin... I tried reading The Left Hand of Darkness a long time ago and just couldn't get into it, but maybe I should give it another shot. Or maybe I should try The Dispossessed first instead. It ...
What, no Ursula K. Le Guin? That was my first thought on reading your list, particularly The Left Hand of Darkness , which is probably her most famous book, and The Dispossessed, which is one of my favorite books ever.
I have only read one of Chris Moriarty's books (Spin State), ...
Worlds of Exile and Illusion has been sitting in my TBR pile for quite a while now. I think I got it after reading The Left Hand of Darkness , which is in the same series, and then finding on Le Guin's website that The Left Hand of Darkness was part of a series. Maybe time to move it up the ...
... time I read a LeGuin, people LOVE the writing. And then they admit that most of them have never read any LeGuin beyond The Left Hand of Darkness . I am not denying that LeGuin writes science fiction, but I find it anthopologically interesting how many people who say they have read a lot of ...
My next book continues my sci-fi odyssey. I think it will be quite a different feel from The Left Hand of Darkness . The book is called Cordelia's Honor by: Lois McMaster Bujold. It is comprised of two books, actually. The first is Shards of Honor and the second is Barrayar. So, does ...
Book #3: The Left Hand of Darkness by: Ursula K. Le Guin -- finished April 6th, 2008
Well, this was a very unusual book for me. It was very rich and deep. It took me a little while to get through it, but I'm glad I did! I can certainly see why it's a classic of the genre... very thought ...
... and I didn't have to give up on any of them. Not counting rereads (Wicked, The Crucible) my three favorites were:
1) The Left Hand of Darkness
2) The World Without Us
3) Chasm City
... a few new (to me) authors in there, but short stories really arent my thing... I've just started Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness . I'm a bit nervous, it seems to be a favourite of a few ppl on here, so I figured I ought to give it a go & I really want to enjoy it, but I’m ...
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin
I had a good quarter for science fiction. The first (and probably best) book I read this year was The Left Hand of Darkness . It's got several classic science fiction tropes handled well, tight writing (no bloat in need of editing), and a wonderful relationship at the heart of it.
I also read ...
... that Ms. Le Guin is a giant in both the Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres. One easy stand-out as a classic in the Sci-Fi vein is The Left Hand of Darkness .
All this to say... in a very roundabout way... that this has become my next book! Yay, me... it's about time, I know. I now approach this work ...
Interesting one, particularly as it seems that everyone who likes The Dispossessed also likes The Left Hand of Darkness and vice versa.
I took weeks to read The Left Hand of Darkness , found it extremely heavy-going and never really properly cared for the characters.
The Dispossessed, ...
... 138,137 114,209
Now in the weighted number, books like Neuromancer and Dune are near the top, but The Left hand of Darkness is #1 in SF, #12 in science fiction, and #31 in sci-fi. Ender's Game is #1 in sci-fi, and #4 in science fiction, but #32 in SF.
So, there is ...
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
Most of LeGuin's works are borderline sf/fantasy. Of her SFish works I'd recommend Left hand of darkness , Worlds of Exile and Illusion, and Four ways to forgiveness.
Dispossessed is very good but quite a tome (and not by being a voluminous book but by being hard to chew, sometimes).
Is it Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin?
... really read much at all, not so much for people who read widely in mainstream fiction, for instance.)
How about:
The Left Hand of Darkness : It explores interesting ideas and the SF nature is absolutely critical to the plot; it couldn't possibly be told as a mainstream story. And it' ...
If you read and like Left hand of Darkness & Dispossessed you should very probably enjoy the rest of her SF works as well; most of her stories are collected in in different volumes, but I'd like to recommend Four ways to forgiving and Birthday of the world, plus Worlds of exile and ...
Sounds like you need to check in more often Philo....we might not have been stumped if you'd been here.
My excuse for left hand of darkness is that I've never read it. though i did mooch it after the first line appeared on the first line thread. so its in the queue. somewhere.
... love the Bush Survival Guide!
Oh, and you guys made some 250 new posts since I crashed yesterday... And none of you got The Left Hand of Darkness ?!? ;)
... in the ether.
20. No it does not have a blue snail on the cover (thought I did check....just in case)
The answer was The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin.
I'm hoarding all my cookies. But booksloth can have her turn now.
... Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton (finished 6/20/08)
Science fiction
1) Infected by Scott Sigler (finished 4/3/08)
2) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (finished 4/10/08)
3) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (finished 4/15/08)
4) Neuromancer by William Gibson (finished 4/22/08)
5 ...
... ger9000.
I mentioned some of these authors to my housemate and I now have a selection of books from her shelves including The Left Hand Of Darkness , The Dispossessed and The Sirens Of Titan and she's trying to find her collection of Octavia Butler novels for me.
My housemate deals with ...
Today in the mail I recieved Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I really need to ban myself from bookmooch!
Ooh Ohh!!! It's The Left Hand of Darkness , right?
I remember underlining the quote you gave in #157 because it spoke to me so.
or maybe The Left Hand of Darkness by the same author.
"The play--for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crêpe paper--was written by her in a two-day tempest ...
... that 'home' is not to have power, to be an ordinary person.
I'd really like to recommend her hainish books, such as The Left Hand of Darkness , Four ways to forgiveness, Worlds of exile and illusion and The dispossessed, and maybe Birthday of the world. The theme of 'power' is so ...
... POILER*
In some cases authors come through as thoroughly misogynistic. But at the same time as she wrote Earthsea she wrote The Left hand of darkness , which deals with gender, and later on she became even more conscious not only of gender and sexuality as such but of the roles and strategies of ...
1) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
An excellent sci-fi book. I was struck by how much was packed into this book - several classic sci-fi tropes (including first contact, telepathy, an interstellar "empire", a planet with a unique environment), solid world-building, political ...
Left Hand of Darkness
... The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu & The Other Wind).
Personally I have always mentally organised The Left Hand of Darkness as fantasy as well, so I nominate that.
What about collections of short novels? Worlds of Exile and Illusion and Four ways to forgiveness ...
ooooh, too hard to decide!!!
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
OK, Left Hand of Darkness ...
Left Hand of Darkness is in my TBR stack. I vote for it.
Left Hand of Darkness
Left Hand Of Darkness
... have gotten it down to 6 choices. Please vote for ONE BOOK ONLY. Don't give us your preferences in order. ;o)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The Once and Future King ...
The Left Hand of Darkness only because I already own it and I have sworn this year 5 books out = 1 book in (it's that or sleep in the garden).
Still favouring Foreigner, with Left hand of darkness as second.
I think I may have read Good Omens as many times as I have read LHoD, and I think it's very good, very funny. But I feel like some more serious material.
I'd REALLY like to discuss Cyteen (mentioned in the other thread) ...
... now.
Did I get that right, Clam?
If that's the case, here are my top three:
1. Good Omens
2. Foreigner
3. The Left Hand of Darkness
... group is talking about Inkheart which has been made into a movie that will be out soon. So i would suggest that title, The Left Hand of Darkness & The Phantom Tollbooth be on the ballot as i have read many of the others. 8^)
... arts...
I'm gonna read A game of Thrones eventually, but not til the series is finished so I vote no for that one...
The Left Hand Of Darkness & Dealing with Dragons are both pretty high on my TBR list, so I vote for one of them :)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The Once and Future King By T.H. White
And ...
... Dune nomination. I'm someone who actually has never read the series, but it's sitting there on my TBR pile. I just read The Left Hand of Darkness about a month ago, so I'll chime in on discussions if y'all choose that, too. I'm far less inclined to re-read A Game of Thrones, at least not ...
I'm quite keen for The Left Hand of Darkness . Also I've just borrowed A Game of Thrones so I'd be keen for that too...
Thanks and very cool! I probably could have figured that out on my own but I'm a bit lazy today. I read Left Hand of Darkness for a class in college and keep meaning to read more of LeGuin's work. Not only is she an awesome storyteller she's a major pioneer for women writers in the SF genre.
...
I read some Cherryh years ago, and would be quite agreeable to read her again for a group discussion, but I also bought The Left Hand of Darkness awhile ago so am all ready if that's what we decide to go with. But then...I usually read the books, read all the postings, and don't participate in ...
... I'm putting my support behind r_f's ideas. I'd love to discuss Cherryh with you folks.
I've also thought of rereading Left hand of Darkness for a while.
... times with the same three novels, but "Dune" and "Ender's Game" reversed.
SF is used 114,219 times with these novels:
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dune
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Now LT also provides a derived subject listing, and 520,832 books have been ...
... writer. She explores ideas via individual characters - both of the two above uses multiple POV's, but Le Guin does not. Left hand of darkness , Worlds of Exile and Illusion, Four ways to forgiveness and The Birthday of the World are all set in the same universe.
There's also her Earths ...
I finished The Left Hand of Darkness this evening (which I very much enjoyed), and started reading Cryptonomicon during commercials of the Survivor finale (worst season ever, btw). I'm only about 50 pages in, but I already love this book. Great sarcastic humor, and after recently reading a ...
... and really enjoyed it, so now I know the Foreigner series is the next Cherryh I should go for, eh?
I've just started The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Finished The Oxford Murders - wow was it bad!
Already began Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness , and can tell just from the introduction she wrote that I will enjoy this much more!
... and thought I'd like to find some others with bizarrely gendered aliens.
Off the top of my head I can think of
- The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin - Single gender
- A story by Theodore Sturgeon involving a sentient single celled organism and the resulting "explicit" ...
... Sturgeon. He has some novels, but there is no question that his short fiction is his best work. We also chose The Left Hand of Darkness , early Robert A. Heinlein, some Isaac Asimov (Caves of Steel), and Arthur C. Clark short stories. H. G. Wells made the cut, but ...
My partner & I read (mostly me reading) The Left Hand of Darkness during our first, very cold, winter in Boston. It seemed appropriate.
Just finished the left hand of darkness by LeGuin and now on to stormed fortress which just arrived from Britain
... working on it so long, not because of the activities of the bunnies.
:D
* Order new anti-virus software
* Finish The Left Hand of Darkness
Catching up,
For the I's through L's, the Maya Angelou, Jane Eyre, The Joy Luck Club, The Left Hand of Darkness , Life in the Iron Mills, and Little Women, all a long time ago.
For the M's, the Simone de Beauvoir (I also bought it in French to try to practice but . . .), Mrs ...
... have recommended it to me for a couple years running, so I finally read it. I enjoyed it as much as Ursula LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness , which did make the list.
I wonder if more Lessing books will appear on the next iteration of the list now that she's won the Nobel.
Well, I guess I'll have to look at the top ten SF books.
The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (154)
Dune by Frank Herbert (227)
The demolished man by Alfred Bester (95)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (187)
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. ...
... by Douglas Adams (1187)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (783)
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein (853)
The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (676)
The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury (678)
Snow crash by Neal Stephenson (829
Obviously, popularity isn't ...
To add to this - in The left hand of darkness the main theme is what a society could be like if everyone is potentially both male and female.
To some that is very offensive. I even know at least one person who could not bring himself to finish that book.
... ray
Crown of Shadows by C.S. Friedman (I had already bought the first two in the series at HPB a month or two ago)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Morgaine Saga and Exile's Gate by C.J. Cherryh
Of ...
Hi, Ilithyia ~ I read Left Hand of Darkness too, a long time ago, but I don't remember much about it except that I enjoyed it. :)
I've been thinking about The Sun Also Rises, and it occurs to me that it's all about the "lost generation" between the wars ~ in the last Hemingway I read, A Mov ...
... Dworkin
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
The Lais of Marie de France, Marie de France
The Left Hand of Darkness , Ursula K. Le Guin
Life in the Iron Mills: Or, The Korl Woman, Rebecca Harding Davis
A Literature of Their Own, Elaine Showalter
Little Wom ...
... Deliverer (book no 9) in february.
And then I'm trying to get around to reread some old friends that I have missed. Like The Left hand of darkness . Which I haven't reread in a long time due to all these new fantastic books I discover all the time, thanks to LT and other sources.
I actually like lathe of heaven over left hand of darkness . It would be really interesting to contrast lathe with a canticle for leibowitz as examples of religion as an influence on science fiction. From left field, it might be worthwhile to evaluate Grass by Tepper, although I'd be ...
Examples of above -
The sands of Mars (OK, no interstellar, but...)
How does that story match, say, The left Hand of Darkness ?
In truth, not very well.
But it's still fun, an more interesting than a Harlequin novel...
Also the proposed Caves of Steel. Others, from my library - A fall ...
... worlds, or the relationships between them as a major theme, or background, to the plot. Neuromancer is all about Earth. Left Hand of Darkness is about multiple words, but more about exploring the idea of a genderless society than it is anything else. You can also imagine Classic SF as a 'popc ...
Left Hand of Darkness cause I have a copy.
If I buy anymore books I will have to sell the cats.
Um, I'm not sure whether there's any point, but The Left Hand of Darkness , so I don't have to go shopping. Though given how much I'm away in the next month, maybe my vote shouldn't count? :-s
Well I haven't read any of them so I'll be happy either way. Although The Left Hand of Darkness would prob be my first choice...
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin... please?
I'm with Maggie on this one. :)
... sixth either. ;o)
I'm throwing in a few that other people suggested, as well as the three we originally discussed.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
City by Clifford D. Simak (wrong ...
I'll second (or whatever) the recommendations of A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Space Merchants.
Also, something by Philip K. Dick. The easiest ones to use for your purposes would be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle.
...
I actually took a scifi course in high school and if I recall correctly after all these many *mumblemumble* years, we read The Left Hand of Darkness , The Time Machine, Slaughterhouse-Five, and I believe one other but I can't recall what it was.
I definitely think that To Say Nothing of ...
... alike).
Jim53: Thanks for some really great suggestions. I will definitely categorize the books into alike themes. I do The Left Hand of Darkness but I will definitely check on the other two books.
Keep the suggestions coming!
... Stars My Destination (based partly on The Count of Monte Cristo), Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness (really fascinating gender roles theme here).
I think it's great that you're doing this! I hope you'll keep us posted on what you choose and ...
I agree with Jim - some depth is preferable.
That said I don't think The Left Hand of Darkness is overly "deep"...
I'd put in a vote for almost any of the classics above. Maybe not Left Hand of Darkness cause I had to write an icky paper on it in college (bad memories) but I'd read something else by LeGuin (Wizard of Earthsea perhaps?).
Otherwise I would love to have a good reason (i.e. discussion ...
OK OK OK!
I'll admit The Dispossessed is a tough one if you don't enjoy her books.
The Left Hand of Darkness is quite slim, though, and could be read without trying to interpret this or that into something or the other while at the same time offering something for those of us who enjoy ...
Hi
I want to read some of the big classics of SciFi. Any recommendations?
I've already read the left hand of darkness , enders game and fahrenheit 451 and I've got dune and the time machine on my to read pile.
They don't neccesarily have to be old classics - just the "important" works.
...
... which happens so often in life. I will admit to an obvious bias on the subject, though.
I haven't gotten to read UKL's Left Hand of Darkness yet, but I did see similarities, personality-wise, between Ammar and another character, Arithon from Janny Wurts's Wars of Light and Shadow Series ...
...
Dune
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Book of Morgaine
Mark Twain
Jonathan Swift
The Left Hand of Darkness
Across the Sea of Suns
These are all rich enough that I learn something new every time I read them, and I'd rather do that than get ...
... lendingness connecting me to the four books that I've lent out in my life. The only books that I give away are copies of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin that I buy for the express purpose of educating people about good science fiction.
... of those genres any more but have fond memories of many works and authors. Everything by Ursula K. Le Guin, especially Left Hand of Darkness , Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, William Gibson's Neuromancer, Jirel of Joiry, many more. I've bought many copies of Childhood's End ...
From the Do Opposites Attract? department:
How to Talk to a Liberal and Downsize This = Me Talk Pretty One Day
Left Behind and The God Delusion = The left hand of darkness
But my favorite so far is definitely:
Fishboy and Hollow Man = Tuesdays with Morrie
... Isaac Asimov 's, Philip K. Dick's and other such author's books. I especially liked books like Ursula Le Guin's The left hand of darkness and The Dispossessed.
I don't know what happened - did I loose interest or did it become more and more difficult to find good science ...
#159 - I love The Left Hand of Darkness !
If you haven't read it yet/before I hope you enjoy it!
I visited my local used book store and came home with two books: House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I visited my local used book store today and came away with two books: House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
...
Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto
Night Vision by Ellen Hart
Dark Tort by Diane Mott Davidson
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
...
2/15 - nonfiction
Currently reading: The West and the Rest, among others. Thinking of starting The Golden Compass or The Left Hand of Darkness .
... Stories. Gene Wolfe
It Happened in Boston Russell Greenan
Kingdoms of Elfin. Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Left Hand of Darkness .* Ursula K. LeGuin
Little, Big. John Crowley
The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien general background, rather than active ...
... thought I had in my possession an essay by Stanislaw Lem about the gender neutral characters in Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness .
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? and can you point me toward books which contain this essay?
I will guess,
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
David Perrings
... like Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series, but otherwise I wouldn't compare them.)
Lord of the Rings is like The Left Hand of Darkness , the start of the book throws a lot of readers off. Some suggest skipping the first chapter of LOTR -- it's certainly true that Tolkien ...
... for Leibowitz is a powerful suggestion of hope in the direst of circumstances. The two protagonists hauling the sledge in The Left Hand of Darkness , working together despite the inner conflicts within each, is marvelous. The appearance of the crystal dragon in The Darkest Road is just one ...
Very funny, Busifer. I have yet to recommend Left Hand to anyone but my daughter. I read that book on the recommendation of an online mensa book group buddy, and I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of the episode of ST:TNG when Riker falls in love with that no-gender alien, who then gets ...
... at work, at the time. He went with his girlfriend. Next day he asked me if what kind of weirdo I was (I had borrowed him The Left Hand of darkness that same week, he was appalled by both!).
#25 - Left Hand of Darkness :-)
*Edited to add: that one is one of my all time favourites*
Science Fiction:
The Book of the New Sun and The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons ...
If you told me to pick ten of each for a one-way trip to a remote asteroid, I'd pick:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Becoming Human by Jean Vanier
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
The Ship Who ...
-In one of her essays Ursula LeGuin has since appologized for ruling homosexuality out of her book The Left Hand of Darkness . (That said, the narrator of the book seems freaked out enough when one of the mutable-gender characters becomes _feminine_ and attractive....) However, you may like " ...
... believe it contains a grain of truth: Ammar reminds me in a way of Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, the disgraced minister in The Left Hand of Darkness . I believe both characters are more loyal to their visions of what their countries/worlds could be than they are to their actual rulers. Both ...
... more broad-minded and I do recall a university class where the Handmaid's Tale was studied alongside Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness , among others.....
Perhaps one distinction (and this could give good debate) is that 'literary' writers don't set out to write a genre novel as ...
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Man Without a Face by Isabelle Holland
Heads You Win, Tails I Lose by Isabelle Holland
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
The Shadow in the North
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A Wizard Abroad
Left Hand of Darkness
Why Do We Say It: The Stories Behind the Words, Expressions and Cliches We Use
Outbound Flight
Searching for Dragons
... Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Ursula Leguin's The Left Hand of Darkness , Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. These last eight mentioned, I thought I still had, but maybe I ...
... A Confederacy of Dunces, and I was right.
Folks have already mentioned a couple of others that I had thought of: The Left Hand of Darkness and Anna Karenina.
This is the full first sentence from Paul Clifford: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except ...
UKL is one of my very favorite authors, and I agree with the idea that The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed are her masterpieces, followed by the Earthsea books. I admire Always Coming Home a lot--it's a great mix of different types of "documents"--but I can't say I enjoyed it as ...
A Night in the Lonesome October
Cold Fire
Lioness Rampant
The Left Hand of Darkness
Making Metal Jewelry
... up but then I got away from it when I couldn't find what interested me in the first place.
Years of Rice and Salt and The Left Hand of Darkness are both ones I will read soon, I just finished The Dispossessed and am excited to find new (to me) authors.
My sister suggests Zodiac by Neal Stephenson.
We both suggest Earth by David Brin.
If you haven't read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, it deals with some of those issues (although not in our solar system).
Edit: I agree with avaland - KSR really is a ...
... the choice of Ursula K LeGuin. The Earthsea Cycle is a classic, but so is her more adult books The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness , and the other books in the Hainish cycle.
Also I'd suggest reading, or at least trying, Guy Gavriel Kay. Of those I've read so far Tigana ...
... incorporates the major thematic perspectives she has explored while 'grounding' it on this world.
Otherwise, I agree with Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed
... Flewelling; maybe not necessarily gay in subject but makes one think a lot about gender identity and its construction is Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; and, if you are into cyberpunk read Pat Cadigan's Synners and Mindplayers.
Personally, I would veer away from ...
... but a comprenesive list would be -
The Lord of the Rings, probably +30 times since my early teens some 30 years ago
Left hand of darkness
A lot of the Discworld books, probably more than half of them
Pashazade - Effendi - Felaheen
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
...
... my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination."
The Left Hand of Darkness , by Ursula K Le Guin
35. Green Girls; Michael Kimball
36. Illegal Alien; Robert J. Sawyer
37. The Left Hand of Darkness ; Ursula K. LeGuin
38. The Mansion in the Mist; John Bellairs
39. The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death; Daniel Pinkwater
Goal: 150
Books Read: 3 ...
I never really gave these sorts of things much though until yesterday, when I bought a used copy of The Left Hand of Darkness . I didn't bother looking at the inside of the book before buying, I just grabbed the cheapest copy off the shelf, since they are usually quite fine. However, the previous ...
Yes, I agree with andyl, both The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed were excellent, (and both won the Hugh and the Nebula--a rare feat to be accomplished twice by an author), although it's been well over 20 years ago since I read them.
(BTW, I seem to remember reading recently that ...
... in a book discussion meeting, and I was afraid the Allende might get in the way.
However: I've sneakily begun The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin anyway, because .. hey! I need a book to read on the stationary cycle, and it should be a treat - something I really ...
... Various (168p)
35. Green Girls; Michael Kimball (366p)
36. Illegal Alien; Robert J. Sawyer (304p)
37. The Left Hand of Darkness ; Ursula K. LeGuin (304p)
38. The Mansion in the Mist; John Bellairs (170p)
39. The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death; Daniel P ...
... Goldsmithing
Clear: Crystal Line
Rainbow: The Last Slice of Rainbow
Black: A Night in the Lonesome October, Left Hand of Darkness
White: The Book of Night with Moon, Last Unicorn, Immortal Unicorn
Brown: Sorcery and Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
Iridescent: G ...
To me this list would be incomplete without Le Guin. I would say Left hand of darkness , or maybe something else from the Hainish sequence, like Worlds of exile and illusion or Four ways to forgiveness. This would maybe be in the sf/fantasy crossover section...
Also, I think Tigana is ...
... Amber Spyglass, 29 have read Little Women and/or Good Wives (my book was a combined copy of both), and 21 have read The Left Hand of Darkness , and nobody has read Juniper, LINT (I don't blame them), or The Will of the Empress.
... in Bangkok, Thailand -- I highly recommend it!)
I got Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy for Christmas, as well as The Left Hand of Darkness . I've been meaning to read these for most of my life, but plan to get around to it this year.
That's four. Let's see. Oh! I bought David E ...
... and you know, speaking of changing gender (message 17), Ursula K. Leguin's Left hand of darkness might be of interest.
... to check out some of LT's communities. I haven't been busy, so I've been doing a lot of reading recently.
I've just read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin for the first time, which I found a bit dense but liked for the most. I found the hermaphrodite society fascinating.
A ...
I'm not reading any currently. I have it on my listsofbests.com page. Left Hand of Darkness is on my re-read list.
... by Lois McMaster Bujold
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Little, Big by John Crowley
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
Warlock in Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff
Archangel by Sharon Shinn
Moon Called ...
... allowed?
As it turns out, I have read enough SF. I even eliminated some that I really like from this list:
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Color of Distance
Paris in the Twentieth Century
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Chrysalids
The Gate to Women's Country
Brave New ...
... books, the literature.
I also have known people who read only as an escapism, and when I have pointed them to books like Left hand of darkness they have returned it commenting how wierd or even disgusting the genders portrayed was, indicating that I too must be very wierd to recommend this ...
... prophecy. Unless we try and create the change, "see" it and work towards it, it won't happen.
And then works like The Left Hand of Darkness will continue to be stigmatised. And, frankly, how is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? fundamentally different from Brave New World? Why ...
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21. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: ★★★★1/2
Genre: Science Fiction – New Wave
GirlUnderGlass and I read this as part of her “March – Mo ...
17. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tags: 1960s, fiction, sci-fi, U.S.A.
Rating: ★★★★1/2
"Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is non-ex ...
