Books I Love: The Dispossessed

[@revdrjon]

I read it as a youngster, in the late 70s, and it's stayed with me thereafter. I'm inclined to agree with your assessment.

[@winterburden]

Thanks for sharing this neat book!

[@YosemiteJohn]

Ownership of land was a nearly incomprehensible concept to indigenous people in the New World until long after Europeans started trading and those who came after the early trappers and hunters later began laying claim to it to such an extent that they came to realize much too late that this is maybe going to be a problem. I had one book by Ursila Le Guin that I thought was tourture to read even though it won a Hugo Award. This one sounds like it may be worth a look though: good book report Miss Cole

[@DanaColeDares]

I know I'm not the first person to say this, but we don't own land. If anything, the land owns US! It will be here LONG after we're gone. One of my teachers gave me the book The Left Hand of Darkness when I was in 7th grade. I just COULD NOT get into it. I finally read it a few years ago, and it was amazing. But I'm really glad that I waited to read it; even recently, I had to take my time with it and go slowly and reflect as I read. It wasn't something I would have appreciated (much less enjoyed!) as an early teen.

[@YosemiteJohn]

@@DanaColeDares Oh, I was in 7th grade too: well maybe I will try that one again if it is among the books I didn't have to part with in a garage sale just before selling my house after moving to an apartment 5 years ago [I still have 2 big boxes that haven't been unpacked yet]. They are fillled mostly with paperwork that was on my desk and basement table that my Nieces didn't know what to do with and it is possible a few books got tossed in there as well

[@pillmuncher67]

I think the greatest novel of the 20th Century might be At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. But I haven't read all 20th Century novels, so I might be wrong.

[@wolfiebassache4146]

For me it has to be 'The Chrysalids' by John Wyndham. It's a sci-fi study of religion, evolution and conservative decay in a fictional society. It's written subjectivity and no explanation of the culture in which the characters are living in is offered. You have to work it out for yourself by piecing together the misinterpretations of the society's history. After 40 years it's still a book that if I'm not reading, I often find myself thinking about.

[@pillmuncher67]

Space Anarchism FTW!