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发帖数: 720 | 1 Really, this review is as intellectual and granted, as dull as the original
novel. sigh. "The Dispossessed" was instantly my favorite. Love the way she
engraved Shevek as a baby, boy, and man. His wife was vivid and lovely as
well. Le Guin had an affectionate wit, bright and tender and shy in turns.
(If a writer could write about kids close to life, with understanding and
sensitive humour, he/she was bound to be a good writer. Le Guin was this type
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发帖数: 4445 | 2 I must confess that "The Lathe of Heaven" is kind of special for people living
near Portland like me :-)
"The Dispossessed" is definitely a better book. I realized the following
thing only after going through it really fast. The time she wrote it was deep
into the cold war. The social structure of Anarres resembles the USSR
propaganda at least superficially. And, am I crazy in thinking that the life
and belief of Shevek is partially inspired by the Soviet physicist Andrei
Sakharov?
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发帖数: 720 | 3 Right. Le Guin's works are more like social science fiction. Maybe she was
handling her father's area using her mother's way eh? I dunno about this
Soviet phycist and am really baffled by all political issues. But Shevek's
native society struck a chord with home. It looked familiar and intriguing,
and that's one reason I liked this novel. But she was not doing satire, was
she? She showed and analyzed and evaluated, but did not condescend. In her
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