iloponis 's review for:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

3.0

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thoughts to be added after book club

it was just ... boring. the concept and characters and setting aren't boring, but the execution just included so much physics nonsense, an overabundance of politics, and lacked any real characterization or development (aside from shevek, i'll admit, his development was basically the entire point of the story but every other character might as well have been a silent extra for all they mattered) i get that the "story" isnt the point, its the questions le guin is asking the reader about society/possession/greed/etc, but i guess i prefer a bit more meat to my fiction, and this was not it. like nothing happens for the first 3/4 of the book, aside from shevek walking around and having thoughts. i wont say this is a bad book because i think it has important things to say but god was i glad to be done with it once i finished