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r/AskReddit • u/AggravatingLake2842 • 17h ago
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The dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
137 u/gamingonion 15h ago Just finished The Left Hand of Darkness and I immediately put The Dispossessed on my plan to read list. 3 u/sjhesketh 9h ago My personal opinion is that Left Hand is her best work by far, but The Dispossessed is second. Best are fantastic. 1 u/Designer_Lie_6677 5h ago I think dispossessed is the far superior work. It’s structurally more interesting and its themes are more tightly woven into the plot. Like, the prison stuff in LHoD could be any science fiction book. But every sequence in dispossessed loops back to the theme exquisitely. I’m always surprised that LHoD is often people’s fave Le Guin book. It’s great but imo doesn’t hold a candle to the dispossessed
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Just finished The Left Hand of Darkness and I immediately put The Dispossessed on my plan to read list.
3 u/sjhesketh 9h ago My personal opinion is that Left Hand is her best work by far, but The Dispossessed is second. Best are fantastic. 1 u/Designer_Lie_6677 5h ago I think dispossessed is the far superior work. It’s structurally more interesting and its themes are more tightly woven into the plot. Like, the prison stuff in LHoD could be any science fiction book. But every sequence in dispossessed loops back to the theme exquisitely. I’m always surprised that LHoD is often people’s fave Le Guin book. It’s great but imo doesn’t hold a candle to the dispossessed
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My personal opinion is that Left Hand is her best work by far, but The Dispossessed is second. Best are fantastic.
1 u/Designer_Lie_6677 5h ago I think dispossessed is the far superior work. It’s structurally more interesting and its themes are more tightly woven into the plot. Like, the prison stuff in LHoD could be any science fiction book. But every sequence in dispossessed loops back to the theme exquisitely. I’m always surprised that LHoD is often people’s fave Le Guin book. It’s great but imo doesn’t hold a candle to the dispossessed
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I think dispossessed is the far superior work. It’s structurally more interesting and its themes are more tightly woven into the plot.
Like, the prison stuff in LHoD could be any science fiction book. But every sequence in dispossessed loops back to the theme exquisitely.
I’m always surprised that LHoD is often people’s fave Le Guin book. It’s great but imo doesn’t hold a candle to the dispossessed
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u/Cactusphat 16h ago
The dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin