I could not put off reading this book any longer.
There are two collections of Le Guin’s articles/essays on my Mt. TBR shelf and this is the one that was only recently published (November 2017).
No Time To Spare is a collection of articles from her blog, which you can check out here.
Having read only a few pages so far, it just drives home just what a powerful force of mind we have lost.
One of my favourite post on her blog so far is this one about Amazon – and I am fairly sure that she deliberately abbreviated “Bestseller” and that the term “BS Machine” does not refer to “bestsellers”.
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I admit my only contact with LeGuin so far has been the Earthsea movie which…well put me of her books. Since then I have been repeatedly assured that her books are very different and much better but so far I never got round to it. Perhaps I should take the sad occasion and finally pick up something.
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The only novel of hers that I have read was The Left Hand of Darkness, and I did not like it. I even tried to re-read it (ironically that was last weekend!) and I still got totally lost after Chapter 5. It just wasn’t for me – but then I am not a SF reader. I will try two others of her SF books, but if I have the same response to them as to LHOD, then that it ok with me.
I’m okay with just absolutely loving her essays, talks, reviews, and other non-fiction thoughts.
Have you visited her blog?
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Not yet. I really only knew that lots of the books she wrote were considered fantasy classics. But now I will have a look.
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