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A review by kitvaria_sarene
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
2.0
Finally at the end... This one was a real slog for me.
First off - there isn't much actual plot. The book is more about characters and society, than things actually happening.
I liked the idea of people being neither male nor female, but having the potential to be either. But while in "Ancillary Justice" it worked perfect for me, in this one it bored me on the one hand, and annoyed me on the other one.
The main character always refers to females as weak, and he dislikes the people there for not being real males, but too soft and not substantial enough...
Besides that there was a lot, a whole LOT, of explaining going on. I'd have liked more "show don't tell" or the learning curve somehow packed into the plot. In "Three Body Problem" there was a lot to learn too, but it never felt as boring, tedious and longwinded to me.
I didn't really like any of the characters. The main character was annoying, the others felt a but like cardboard cutouts to me. I didn't really get to know them.
The world also stayed quite blank. It's cold, the people are neither/both sexes, but otherwise there wasn't much interesting or engaging new things.
Overall this really wasn't my book at all. I was bored 80% of the time, and my thoughts kept wandering due to that. And despite that I never felt like I really missed anything important.
First off - there isn't much actual plot. The book is more about characters and society, than things actually happening.
I liked the idea of people being neither male nor female, but having the potential to be either. But while in "Ancillary Justice" it worked perfect for me, in this one it bored me on the one hand, and annoyed me on the other one.
The main character always refers to females as weak, and he dislikes the people there for not being real males, but too soft and not substantial enough...
Besides that there was a lot, a whole LOT, of explaining going on. I'd have liked more "show don't tell" or the learning curve somehow packed into the plot. In "Three Body Problem" there was a lot to learn too, but it never felt as boring, tedious and longwinded to me.
I didn't really like any of the characters. The main character was annoying, the others felt a but like cardboard cutouts to me. I didn't really get to know them.
The world also stayed quite blank. It's cold, the people are neither/both sexes, but otherwise there wasn't much interesting or engaging new things.
Overall this really wasn't my book at all. I was bored 80% of the time, and my thoughts kept wandering due to that. And despite that I never felt like I really missed anything important.