shadow9d9
Just a few comments on some of your ratings:
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Wizard of Earthsea- 3.5 Stopped at 80 pages in... very average and by the books compared to today's standards
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I think you should try again with this one. It blows away any modern fantasy in my opinion.
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The dispossessed- put the book on hold after page 20-seemed to be the all too familiar characters put in a strange land and must adapt story that I read already in Left hand, rocannon, exiles, and illusions...
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It seems to me here that you have overlooked one of the key themes of this book that set it apart from her other works (and indeed that of most other authors). It is above all else a meditation on a social system of anarchy and how it might work out in practice. This anarchic society is also compared in stark contrast to the capitalist society (resembling a futuristic vision of our own society) of it's sister planet through the eyes of a disallusioned anarchist. The scientific theme of the book is almost incidental and little more than a plot device really.
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The Lathe Of Heaven- 3.6 stopped at page 110-too simple, not much substance
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Again, I feel that you overlooking the substsance of this work which is primarilly concerned with the philisophical implications of trying to control our own destiny.