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RIP Ursula K Le Guin - Drunk Monk - 01-23-2018
I remember really enjoying earthsea in high school, but now, I can’t remember a single thing about it except that the spine of the books when lined up in order formed a little fish creature. I liked that idea so much that we’ve perpetuated it with KFTC. I think there’s an anime version that I’ve never seen.
RE: RIP Ursula K Le Guin - cranefly - 01-23-2018
I met her in Powell's Books in Portland a long time ago. She shook my hand, gave me an award.
1987, I think. That award is in a file cabinet somewhere.
I haven't read a lot of her stuff. The Left Hand of Darkness. The Dispossessed. Some short stories. But none of Earthsea.
Maybe I should revisit her. Any suggestions?
She was a force in the field, and in her gender.
It seems wrong -- even an insult -- for her to have passed during the current clown act.
RE: RIP Ursula K Le Guin - Drunk Monk - 01-23-2018
(01-23-2018, 09:37 PM)cranefly Wrote: I met her in Powell's Books in Portland a long time ago. She shook my hand, gave me an award.
1987, I think. That award is in a file cabinet somewhere.
CF FTW.
RE: RIP Ursula K Le Guin - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 01-23-2018
CF FTW x 2.
One of the writers I like posted "She was the cure for Heinlein".
RE: RIP Ursula K Le Guin - King Bob - 01-24-2018
The first Earthsea book was good (I just reread it and enjoyed it), the second two not as good. There's a thread here, where DM also mentions the spines. There were two later sequels but they have many bad reviews on Amazon and they are long; I haven't felt the need to read them. I also liked The Left Hand of Darkness, but read it maybe 30 years ago, so I don't know if it holds up. That's as far as I got. I have read that she got preachy as she got older and her fiction suffered.
She co-edited The Norton Book of Science Fiction, which got a lot of criticism because it only includes stories from 1960-1990 and deliberately downplayed technological themes. There's a good review of it on The SF Site. I think it's now out of print.
RE: RIP Ursula K Le Guin - Drunk Monk - 01-24-2018
(01-24-2018, 05:00 PM)King Bob Wrote: There's a thread here, where DM also mentions the spines.
Gotta post the hyperlink or it didn’t happen.
RE: RIP Ursula K Le Guin - King Bob - 01-26-2018
I was making them work for it. You can't let them get lazy.
RE: RIP Ursula K Le Guin - King Bob - 01-27-2018
I just realized that I mentioned the wrong book earlier - I really read The Lathe of Heaven, the one where the guy changes the world when he dreams. I haven't seen a copy of it in years. It might be out of print.
RE: RIP Ursula K Le Guin - Drunk Monk - 01-19-2021
(01-26-2018, 12:09 PM)King Bob Wrote: I was making them work for it. You can't let them get lazy.
So I repeat myself here. So what's your point?
What's your point?
Your point?