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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
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:
N/A
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
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:
Complicated
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
challenging
informative
inspiring
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
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
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
adventurous
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
A book of ideas, the characters and plot aren’t hugely important so much as they are a device to draw and illustrate a hypothetical post-capitalist society as well as its dissidents and challenges. Yet this alone is more than enough to make it a captivating work of imagination. You read it because it thrills the mind. Certainly interested in checking out the other Hainish Cycle books now.
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A really enriching, beautifully imaginative story that perfectly encapsulates the use of fiction and storytelling as a way of understanding the world.
I think my favourite thing about the story is the subtitle - an ambiguous utopia. It would be easy to take the stance of 'look how perfect and beautiful an anarchist society would be', but throughout there are reality checks - it wouldn't be easy, it wouldn't work perfectly and there would certainly be trade offs. The conversations and discussions around true liberty, and ownership, will definitely stick around for a while.
Doesn't stop me being convinced though!! Anarres FTW!!
I think my favourite thing about the story is the subtitle - an ambiguous utopia. It would be easy to take the stance of 'look how perfect and beautiful an anarchist society would be', but throughout there are reality checks - it wouldn't be easy, it wouldn't work perfectly and there would certainly be trade offs. The conversations and discussions around true liberty, and ownership, will definitely stick around for a while.
Doesn't stop me being convinced though!! Anarres FTW!!
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated