Yeah, there's been a couple of people where I've picked nothing. Or I've picked "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" only, which makes me feel like a bit of a tool. :-)
Oh! I forgot I am America (and So Can You!) on my booklist, probably because it was audio. (I'm not sure it comes in non-audio, though. I mean, who would choose that over the audio reading by Colbert?)
My father-in-law took his six grandkids to see Santa and he groused about the Photo-Parents and the adults who sit on Santa's lap and such. Thus, I had to re-read The Santaland Diaries from "Holidays on Ice". XD
What did you think of "The Left Hand of Darkness"? A friend recently asked my opinion of it, so I became curious about others' opinions of it.
I thought "The Left Hand of Darkness" was a good story, but one without a whole lot of heart. For something that was intended to show the overall essentialness of a human being without gender, I didn't feel like I got a lot of strong human emotions out of it, which was a bit disappointing.
Also, the story doesn't really start until the main characters get on the ice, to me, which is pretty late in the book.
That being said, the worldbuilding in the book is absolutely amazing, and I was engaged reading the story. (One of those books that's hard to pick up, but harder to put down once you get going.) So overall I have to say that I like it and I do think it's earned its place in the "Feminist Sci-Fi Canon", so to speak.
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What did you think of "The Left Hand of Darkness"? A friend recently asked my opinion of it, so I became curious about others' opinions of it.
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Also, the story doesn't really start until the main characters get on the ice, to me, which is pretty late in the book.
That being said, the worldbuilding in the book is absolutely amazing, and I was engaged reading the story. (One of those books that's hard to pick up, but harder to put down once you get going.) So overall I have to say that I like it and I do think it's earned its place in the "Feminist Sci-Fi Canon", so to speak.