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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Señoras y señores, he leído a Ursula K. Le Guin. ¡al fin! Tenía muchas ganas de leer algún libro de ella y lo he conseguido gracias a una lectura conjunta con Marenpergamino.
El libro elegido fue “Los desposeídos”, una novela de ciencia ficción que nos lleva a dos mundos: Anarres y Urras. Dos planetas que están muy cerca uno del otro, pero pese a ello no tienen comunicación. Pues claro, ambos mundos son totalmente opuestos. La principal diferencia, fuera del clima y los recursos naturales, son sus sistemas políticos y sociales. Anarres es un lugar que vive completamente en comunidad, sin leyes, sin gobiernos, sin propiedad privada; Urras es un sistema capitalista, con países, privilegios y clases sociales. La historia comienza cuando un hombre, Shevek, un científico Anarresti, realiza una locura... viaja a Urras. Algo impensado, que le permitirá conocer una nueva realidad, despertando el odio de los suyos.
El libro elegido fue “Los desposeídos”, una novela de ciencia ficción que nos lleva a dos mundos: Anarres y Urras. Dos planetas que están muy cerca uno del otro, pero pese a ello no tienen comunicación. Pues claro, ambos mundos son totalmente opuestos. La principal diferencia, fuera del clima y los recursos naturales, son sus sistemas políticos y sociales. Anarres es un lugar que vive completamente en comunidad, sin leyes, sin gobiernos, sin propiedad privada; Urras es un sistema capitalista, con países, privilegios y clases sociales. La historia comienza cuando un hombre, Shevek, un científico Anarresti, realiza una locura... viaja a Urras. Algo impensado, que le permitirá conocer una nueva realidad, despertando el odio de los suyos.
Se podría pensar que esta novela está llena de ideologías y conceptos políticos… la verdad es que sí. Totalmente. Si bien el libro se ambienta en un universo lejano no hay grandes avances tecnológicos ni pistolas de rayos por todos lados. La historia se centra en Shevek y su viaje desde un punto de vista más profundo. Habla del ser humano, sus conflictos familiares y profesionales, planteando temas sociales dignos de analizar y conversar. ¿qué planeta funciona mejor? ¿qué sistema es mejor (o más justo) para vivir? ¿eres team Urras o team Anarres? Más allá de los ideales que uno tenga, la historia me hizo reflexionar sobre cada realidad. Ahora, lo anterior es muy atractivo, pero no fue un libro amigable de leer. No sé si fue por el ritmo que tiene, que me obligó a leer con calma y concentrado; o por sus laaargos capítulos, algunos buenos, otros no tanto; o por esos momentos en que era complejo entender el mensaje que la autora quería transmitir, obligándome a releer algunos pasajes. La verdad no lo tengo muy claro, pero la sensación final fue que algo me faltó.
Pero aclaremos. Pese a todo, estoy feliz de haber leído a Ursula K. Le Guin. Es más, me gustaría leer más de ella y ver que otros temas aborda en sus novelas. “Los desposeídos” despertó mi curiosidad para seguir.
My notion of this book is that Ms. LeGuin read [book: Atlas Shrugged] and said "That's not how you write about an individualist and make the person not look like a sociopath! Here's how you do it." And thus became the Dispossessed. It feels like the kind of book you should read at the same time you read all those dystopias in high school ([book: Brave New World], [book: 1984], [book: The Handmaid's Tale]).
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
slow-paced
Me only finishing this book because I'm on a strike line feels appropriate. I wanted to like it a lot, but it...was boring, and just not for me at this time :(
Not much happens until 75% of the way thru, and that was hard for me. I really only enjoyed the flashbacks to Shevek's childhood/life on Anarres and thought that was much more interesting than the Urras chapters, although I get that you have to have both. I loved seeing how life on Anarres was structured and what the day-to-day living was like. I also liked that not everything was perfect there. The opposition to new ideas and how that was as oppressive as elements of Urrasti society was really interesting, and the worldbuilding was elaborate.
Unfortunately, aside from Efor (goated tbh), I didn't care at all about the Urras chapters, and they were a struggle to get thru. I didn't fully understand what Shevek hoped to accomplish until...the end of the book, if that. I also skimmed thru all of his physics, because I didn't understand it at all :( but I love a man in STEM and support his endeavors
Anyway sorry for being an anti-intellectual hater about this book. I'm sorry Ms. LeGuin. It was really impressive and maybe I'll come back to it someday. Shoutout to Shevek for saying you have to keep changing, taking into account the past and dreams for the future, in order to be in the present. That was cool. He rlly said never kill yourself. What a king
Not much happens until 75% of the way thru, and that was hard for me. I really only enjoyed the flashbacks to Shevek's childhood/life on Anarres and thought that was much more interesting than the Urras chapters, although I get that you have to have both. I loved seeing how life on Anarres was structured and what the day-to-day living was like. I also liked that not everything was perfect there. The opposition to new ideas and how that was as oppressive as elements of Urrasti society was really interesting, and the worldbuilding was elaborate.
Unfortunately, aside from Efor (goated tbh), I didn't care at all about the Urras chapters, and they were a struggle to get thru. I didn't fully understand what Shevek hoped to accomplish until...the end of the book, if that. I also skimmed thru all of his physics, because I didn't understand it at all :( but I love a man in STEM and support his endeavors
Anyway sorry for being an anti-intellectual hater about this book. I'm sorry Ms. LeGuin. It was really impressive and maybe I'll come back to it someday. Shoutout to Shevek for saying you have to keep changing, taking into account the past and dreams for the future, in order to be in the present. That was cool. He rlly said never kill yourself. What a king
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Very interesting to see the different concepts discussed and to see how Le Guin imagined different societies with different ideologies. Otherwise the book doesn't really offer much in terms of a plot, it's very slow-paced, focused on discussion of ideas and ideologies, the characters act more as vessels for these ideas than they feel like real people. It was fascinating and gripped me more than I expected, but I still found it too slow and dense at times.
Nonetheless, it gives me a lot to think about and I think I'll come back to the thoughts in it quite often.
Nonetheless, it gives me a lot to think about and I think I'll come back to the thoughts in it quite often.