On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:41:52 -0500, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I've read the Farmer, the Le Guin and the McCaffrey. > > I first read _Dragonquest_ when I was about 13. (Probably within 3 > months of my 13th birthday one way or the other.) > > I first read _Lathe of Heaven_ when I was about 15. (After I'd read & > purchased every McCaffrey paperback I could find at Paperback Booksmith, > I started into Le Guin.) > > I read _To Your Scattered Bodies Go_ when I was 23. And after I'd read > a much more assorted bunch of SF than I had when I was 15. > > Plus I married a guy who's read only 1 Le Guin novel, and that one is > it, and he likes it so much that he doesn't want to read any more Le > Guin for fear of disappointment. I keep telling him he really ought to > read _The Dispossessed_. (You may disagree, but you don't know him as > well as I do.) > > Julia
What was the one great le Guin book that makes the other unreadable for fear of disappointment? The _Dispossessed_, a good book. I just reread _Rocannon's World_, one of the all time great openings. Gary Denton - Earthsea Maru #1 on google for easter lemming favorite science fiction
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