The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

4.07 AVERAGE

denw's review against another edition

4.0
adventurous mysterious reflective 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
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erwils's review against another edition

4.5
so much to digest. i loved it all
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thorster's review against another edition

5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

rusulania's review against another edition

4.75
adventurous challenging 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: No

rubypanda's review against another edition

3.0
adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
I liked the concept that the people don’t have gender and anyone can get pregnant but I found the book quite confusing to understand the plot 
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bobomcfoe's review against another edition

5.0
adventurous challenging reflective sad 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
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ech0reads's review against another edition

3.0
adventurous challenging medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
The people of Winter being able to change their gender was really interesting. The rest of the book was kind of meh. I didn't like Ali at all; he was really judgemental and weirdly closed-minded for being an envoy.

ihokan's review against another edition

3.0
I doubt I will recommend the book to anybody. But the raised topic inside is still important nowadays. Is a gender just a social construction? We will go through a hard journey with the main character trying to answer that question. That’s how I saw it and that part was interesting.

#buckwheat #bookclub

cdelligatti13's review against another edition

4.75
challenging dark sad 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

jackiethenoel's review against another edition

5.0
I wish I could give it 10 stars... I think it might be my #1 favorite of all time. My second read-through was better than the first, although everything felt even more tragic in the last few chapters, since I knew what was coming