Books: Oops. I forgot.
Jul. 30th, 2009 01:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbBooks 2009: 66.
66. Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed.
This is perhaps the most fabulous, most perfect novel about self and exile I have ever read. It is doing a very interesting thing with narrative, as well - for a book whose central character's research is in the theory of time, to have alternating chapters telling the past and present narratives so that the book opens and closes in very nearly the same point - well, I'm not putting it right, but it's clever, and it adds weight to the thematic undercurrents.
I don't know how it slipped my mind while I was writing up the books I read while away. I plead exhaustion. I read it in two hours in my tent and it took me places I had never imagined. Emotionally. LeGuin is beyond good.
66. Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed.
This is perhaps the most fabulous, most perfect novel about self and exile I have ever read. It is doing a very interesting thing with narrative, as well - for a book whose central character's research is in the theory of time, to have alternating chapters telling the past and present narratives so that the book opens and closes in very nearly the same point - well, I'm not putting it right, but it's clever, and it adds weight to the thematic undercurrents.
I don't know how it slipped my mind while I was writing up the books I read while away. I plead exhaustion. I read it in two hours in my tent and it took me places I had never imagined. Emotionally. LeGuin is beyond good.
