leasttorque 's review for:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

3.0

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This almost 50-year-old novel of contrasting sociopolitical systems in a science fiction setting probably deserves another star, but it was too much of a slog sifting through it all. There were many astute observations and I appreciated the attempts at, if not balance, then complexity. This is certainly a book that could be discussed at length. Utopia is ever partial and relative. Human nature is variable and confounding yet sometimes lovely.