Today's Featured Book:
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre: Science Fiction
Published: 1970
Page Count: 367 pages
Summary:
I’ll make 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.
Le Guin, Ursula K.. The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition, p. 1.
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I came there at noon. That is, I came somewhere at noon, but I wasn’t sure where.
Le Guin, Ursula K.. The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition, p. 56.
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I've just started this book, so I don't know enough yet to comment on the story. The Left Hand of Darkness is classic Le Guin, and it won both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. I've wanted to read this book for years, and I'm finally getting around to it.
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It depends for me, I think. It has to be the right story and such. There have been movie sequels where I feel like it didn't hold a candle to the original so I could see that with books. But I guess since I read a lot of series I enjoy a sequel or two!
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Oh that such a world might exist!
ReplyDeleteI’ve always hated sequels to favorite books, beginning with The Princess and the Goblin which was my favorite when I was in third grade. The sequel was so disappointing that I cried.
ReplyDeleteI never read Ursula LaGuin. She sounds interesting. I'm 50/50 on sequels except in mysteries.
ReplyDeleteAs a SciFi classic, I have started the Left Hand of Darkness. Since I allegedly love SciFi, I hope to be able to finish it someday.
ReplyDeleteI hope you post what you think of it.
This is an author I really want to read. I agree about sequels. There are a few books I'd like an additional epilogue for but sequels are usually not an improvement.
ReplyDeleteI've always intended to read something by Ursula Le Guin but never have. Regarding sequels, I'm not sure I'd like one for a classic. I know I despised the sequel to The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell) and if I took the time to peruse my shelves, I'd probably have a tough time finding a sequel that wowed me.
ReplyDeleteOh, silly me! I just read a trilogy (The Road to Dalton series by Shannon Bowring) and loved each installment.
DeleteI've heard of The Left Hand of Darkness my whole life, I think, but have never bothered to even read what it is about. Time to correct that. Do you have an errant line in the text about Hilary Mantel's Bringing Up the Bodies? (In your Friday56 section of your post?)
ReplyDeleteYes, thanks, Anne. I was trying to write this while I was staying in a cabin with very poor Internet service.
DeleteThe Left Hand of Darkness sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteI quite like sequels and retellings. They are interesting. Sometimes they are good and sometimes not so. I am always curious to see what might happen next 😂
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I agree sometimes you need to leave the greatest story ever written- ALONE. Happy Reading!
ReplyDeleteI never heard of this author before. Happy reading, ❤️ dear Deb.
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds good. Some sequels are good.
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds timely, it’s hard to believe it’s been 50 years.
ReplyDeleteTrilogies and series which are planned that way are fine, but I agree, sequels (books written later to capitalize on the popularity of the original) are seldom good.