tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post4376112199951385802..comments2024-02-16T14:10:12.166+08:00Comments on Bibliophile Stalker: The Dispossessed by Ursula le GuinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-5168491980405231222008-10-02T07:02:00.000+08:002008-10-02T07:02:00.000+08:00Read Le Guin's The Dispossessed back in high schoo...Read Le Guin's <I>The Dispossessed</I> back in high school. I've been reading it again quite a lot of times since then. What interested me is the way Le Guin blended sharp social commentary into the literary science fiction genre.<BR/><BR/><I>The Dispossessed</I> not only highlighted the ills of the existing world. The planet Urras, after all, was a thinly disguised pastiche of our very own world's socio-economic and political conditions and divisions during the Cold War. Le Guin also presented an alternative to the established way of organizing human society.<BR/><BR/>How a socialist society of the anarchist type can work and what pitfalls can befall it is adroitly imagined in <I>The Dispossessed</I>.<BR/><BR/>I give it a five out of five.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-26637747514933381142007-06-26T07:55:00.000+08:002007-06-26T07:55:00.000+08:00I first read this book when I was 14 and let me te...I first read this book when I was 14 and let me tell you, I didn't understand what the hell was going on. But... I read it again when I was 18 for college, and it made so much more sense. It really is a difficult book and looking back, not one I'd recommend to your average 14 year old. I know I didn't have the world experience and knowledge to process what was really going on in the book then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com