tanteIt was my plan to read some Ursula K. Le Guin and having gone through half of "The Dispossessed" I am so angry for it taking me so long to do it.
Holy fuck.
Sharp Cheddar Goblin@tante I know, right?
@SharpCheddarGoblin book fucking blows your mind every 10 pages or so.
Aleksandr Koltsoff@tante @SharpCheddarGoblin I'm listening to it now (I've read it once before), but I probably should make a habit of re-reading it every couple of years.
Till Westermayer@tante Sehr gutes Buch.
Jan Lehnardt 
@tante she good!
Hugo Pinão@tante I know, it's that good!
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studio craque 54 🏳️🌈
the elder sea@dtauvdiodr
I read wizard of earth sea and it was kind of underwhelming. Is it worth trying again or should I aim for something else in her oeuvre?
@aesthr @tante
I read wizard of earth sea and it was kind of underwhelming. Is it worth trying again or should I aim for something else in her oeuvre?
@aesthr @tante
@dtauvdiodr
It's been so long I'd probably need to go through it again just to catch myself up, but noted. Is lathe part of the series?
@aesthr @tante
It's been so long I'd probably need to go through it again just to catch myself up, but noted. Is lathe part of the series?
@aesthr @tante
meejah
Quantum ⊂ AI
Ken Milmore
Anneke@tante she was a gem. And spicy in her takes.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/123-constructing-the-golem
Ursula K. Le Guin — 123. Constructing the Golem
The legend of the golem varies according to the teller, but I will follow the version that tells how in a time of persecution a rabbi made a mighty giant out of mud, a golem, and wrote a sacred word on its forehead — “Truth” — that gave it life. With its frightening size and enormous strength, the g
D2@tante if you haven’t read them already, her short stories (esp the Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and the Flyers of Gy) are my recommended second stop. Those two are in ‘the unreal and the real’.
@cascheranno I knew her short stories just never had read her Long-Form
@tante nice. Have you read “word for world is forest”? It resembles a story you‘ll recognize*, but then is nothing like it.
* (Tryna avoid anything spoilerish )
@cascheranno no, not yet
Rens van der Heijden@tante @cascheranno can recommend. Though I'm very happy the first LeGuin book I read was the dispossessed.
Chris Ruppel@tante still my favorite of hers!
Rubén Rubio@tante It is an awesome book. I read it every 3-4 years, and I give it as a present quite a lot.
Seiðr@tante Not angry, but I started to read 'the Books of Earthsea' about a month and a half ago and she's gone to the top of my list of fantasy writers.
@Illuminatus Earthsea is probably next
@tante The first book is good, but 'the Tombs of Atuan' just dragged me in in a way absolutely incredible. It has <so> much craft in it…
Dan(iel) Ritz(enthaler)I’ve been coveting this set for while…
Have a few banged up first editions, but these look so cool.
Susanne Opitz@Illuminatus @tante "Tombs of Atuan" has a special place in my heart!
@SusanneOpitz IKR? It's absolutely masterful in its way of making worldbuilding and plot coupled and linked in such a seamless and streamlined way that it flows with an almost preternatural ease. @tante
jannik
Teun 🌏 ❤️ 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@tante Welcome to the cult 
I suggest Always Coming Home next, it's properly insane in the best possible way.
Hel 🪷 
Kerry Mitchell 🍁@tante That’s the one where the Cuban physicist travels to America, right?
Jo - pièce de résistance@tante
I’m so angry there are almost no copies of her work at the library to take home and read.
I’m so angry there are almost no copies of her work at the library to take home and read.
Ben Carver@JoBlakely @tante Plus that there aren't any good scholarly editions of her novels (that I have ever come across).
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@tante @mayintoronto Yay! \o/💃🎉
Maybe try The Lathe of Heaven next. It's about hallucinations and the risks of changing a complex society willy-nilly. Sounds timely, no?
jamienvc ⚧️@tante my wife just read that and loved it so much she’s using it as the novel study book for her classroom
Ingo Stützle@tante I just finished reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Psalm_for_the_Wild-Built
@ingo @tante Just listening to "The Word for World is Forest" (audio book), while parallel reading "The Dispossessed", "Always Coming Home" and one of her anthologies "The Lost and the Found" and her guide for professional writers "Steering the Craft". I can highly recommend the Earthsea Saga, too. Especially the last three books are mature feminist storytelling.
niccolo