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A review by pinxsol
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.0
This was a hard, frustrating read.
Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that Davidson was, as I understand, something of a caricature of An Evil Man (and there are a LOT of nods to that in the book, literally every second sentence of his is hideous), but it's scary how real the caricature is. It was physically painful to read Davidson's POV. I am, in fact, still in pain.
(Also, I don't usually go for books about colonization, slavery, racism, sexism, war, and bureaucracy surrounding all of the above since it's too heavy to read too much of, but I did greatly enjoy reading this, and imo the themes were dealt with very well)
Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that Davidson was, as I understand, something of a caricature of An Evil Man (and there are a LOT of nods to that in the book, literally every second sentence of his is hideous), but it's scary how real the caricature is. It was physically painful to read Davidson's POV. I am, in fact, still in pain.
(Also, I don't usually go for books about colonization, slavery, racism, sexism, war, and bureaucracy surrounding all of the above since it's too heavy to read too much of, but I did greatly enjoy reading this, and imo the themes were dealt with very well)