The Dispossessed

~arzdou

I have been reading about utopias/dystopias recently. Started with The Republic, then Brave New World, Looking Backward, Fahrenheit 451 and some others. Yesterday I finished The Dispossessed by U. Le Guin.

I have read some of her work, notably Earthsea, and she is an author I admire for her political and gender views. This book has touched me more deeply than what I probably would like to admit. It beckons me to write, to examine the feelings and thoughts it has stirred in me, to give form to the ideas that persist in my mind and I can't shake, to re-read and re-contextualize the work.

Has anyone here read the book and felt the same? Or any other that might have moved you similarly?

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~elizabeth wrote:

Yes, it was the book that introduced me to her writing. Loved it, felt like a critique of both communist and capitalist societies, all at once.

~softwarepagan wrote:

I need to finally sit down and read some LeGuin one of these days...

~ropocl wrote:

I read it last year in the process of reading the full Hainish cycle. I love all her work, rereading Earthsea at the moment and will probably reread always coming home next. Nothing in particular to say about the dispossessed, just wants to shout out Ursula

~tetris wrote (thread):

Oh weird, I've literally started reading this