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Planet of Exile

Ursula K. Le Guin

3.62 AVERAGE

cyireadbooks's review against another edition

2.0

Well...I don't get what the attraction is. Perhaps I need to start with the first book in the series -- Rocannon's World.

yiannakin's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

ibexian's review against another edition

4.25

fast-paced

kaymrenee's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous reflective tense fast-paced

If there is any book by Le Guin that I've read thus far which clearly shows her upbringing under 2 anthropologists, it is this one. While other stories of hers challenge or subvert our expectations on gender, race, and class by directly choosing to not follow the modern cultural norms in western society from which she wrote, Planet of Exile chooses to display those biases and bigotries through the characters and in doing so challenges the reader to consider their own. Le Guin, through characters on two sides of a cultural divide, similarly challenges traditional anthropological paradigms in an almost post-modernist critique of the classification of societies and culture. I cannot more highly recommend this book to Le Guin fans, and to those exploring her works for the first time.