Reviews

Los desposeídos by Ursula K. Le Guin

baffi's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

savaging's review against another edition

3.0

This was a book I liked talking about more than reading. Which means it's a book of ideas, a political essay in story-form. And though it's too complex to be purely didactic, it still suffers from some of the dryness attendant on a Pilgrim's Progress adventure.

Or maybe it's because if you unmoor me from both space and time all at once and so drastically, it's impossible for me to suspend disbelief enough to enter the story. If we're both far from earth and far from the present, nobody would be wearing shirts or walking on grass, no one would say these words or have these relationships -- my forebrain maintains that a book from that kind of otherness wouldn't be legible, and so rejects all this familiarity. I most like Le Guin when she stays close to home.

terryskylark's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

studydniowka's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I want to be a scifi girlie so bad, so I have to like it, yes?

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Content Warnings

Minor: War

willowthebitchette's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

llvaralli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

destryhawk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

cchapple's review against another edition

5.0

Slow and beautiful. A great and honest vision of what an anarchist society might look like.

sarahdan413's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

wormposting's review against another edition

5.0

loved everything about this book, the incredible premise of a physicist from an anarchist moon colony, and the character development where we learn so much from him but also learn alongside him as he grows from childhood, experiences hardships and blessings, and faces the realities of capitalism for the first time