Reviews - Il pianeta dell'esilio

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Il pianeta dell'esilio

Ursula K. Le Guin

3.62 AVERAGE

stevegoble's review against another edition

5.0

An early Le Guin novel, and an excellent. I admire the way she can build a complex, detailed world in such an economical way, and how every character has many facets.

katastrophism's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bethkitty182's review against another edition

5.0

This novel is about a colony of people that have been stranded on a foreign planet for many years. They came to this planet to study its in habitants. However, they have become stranded and have been so for 10 years of this foreign planets cycle—equalling 600 regular years. This group is regarded by the natives as a group of witches they refer to as farborns. The natives themselves are a nomadic people, only settling down for the winter to withstand the cold and the savages know as the gaal. This year, the gaal have become a large pillaging army rather than small, trickling groups of families migrating south. They now pose a great threat to the natives and the farborns. Although these two groups have many differences, they must now decide whether to come together and work toward a common goal: survival.

So far, I have read four of Ursula Le Guin’s novel’s and I think this one was my favourite. I really liked this book. I thought it was really interesting how Le Guin explores so many different sides of humanity. What I like most about this book was that there was a lot of character development and relationship-building. I have found that in some of her other books, such as the City of Illusions, the main character is more on a solitary pilgrimage. However, in this novel, many interesting (and not necessarily romantic) relationships develop adding deeper meaning (for me, anyway) and making it a more compelling read. Now that I have read some of her other books from the Hainish cycle, I understand more details about this book. For example, that this planet is Werel, that the Farborns are Terrans, and that these Terrans were a part of the League of All Worlds. However, having not known this while I was reading it, I found it interesting no being sure which group were really the humans! Le Guin seems to make a mystery of that a times! Over all, I really liked it! Thumbs up.

fireblend's review against another edition

3.5

This second novel (more of a novella) in the Hainish Cycle essentially depicts two communities struggling to get past their differences to endure a siege from a third, much larger one. The sci-fi elements are, once again, there mostly for flavor, as one of the communities is composed of far descendants from a marooned space-faring expedition and that's about it, though it does allow LeGuin to sprinkle the world and the human (alterran) characters' experience with great tidbits about the knowledge that has managed to survive since that expedition's arrival, the effort of trying to preserve a culture and laws that have lost relevance with time and the consequences of disrupting a planet and its peoples' natural development with their arrival. The plot itself is pretty straightforward, including a romance that I don't think really gets the time it needs, but LeGuin's prose is as good as ever and generally a joy to read.