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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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4.0

Bueno!! Qué decir?! Este libro ha sido toda una aventura y realmente ahora siento una resaca lectora tremenda.

Empiezo diciendo que este libro es ciencia ficción, concretamente es una utopía. La historia transcurre entre Urras y Amarres, un planeta y su luna. Son dos lugares totalmente distintos y eso dará pie a que nos sorprendamos con nuestros personajes de cosas de ambos lugares.

La autora hace mucho énfasis en que la revolución no es algo puntual, sino que se hace día tras día para conseguir una sociedad justa. Y esa es solo una de las ideas, ya que habla de tantos temas !! Tantos !!

Este libro hace que te cuestiones un sin fin de cosas sobre la sociedad, la libertad, la política... Es tremendamente crítico y aunque se centra mucho en el tema político, no trata solo de eso. Da pie a mucha reflexión sobre la igualdad de hombres y mujeres, entre todos en general, el consumismo, las guerras, incluso sexo en algún momento.

Me ha hecho cuestionarme cosas que no se me habría ni siquiera pasado nunca por la cabeza.

Es verdad que el libro es algo de sito aunque lo he disfrutado enormemente. Digo "denso" porque tiene TANTA cosa que se trata sobre multitud de temas mientras se desarrolla la historia... Que siento que al acabar este libro mi cerebro se ha sometido a un entrenamiento super riguroso jajaja

Hay algunas escenas que tengo ya grabadas en mi mente y no se me van a borrar nunca. Es cierto que debo admitir que no es una historia de personajes, sino más carga sociológica.

La historia me ha gustado mucho, pero siento que si la historia hubiera tenido más acción el libro sería mucho más fácil y ágil de leer. Definitivamente, este libro es de los que dejan muchísisisisimo poso.

reidrussom's review against another edition

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5.0

Ursula K. Le Guin is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. She's a master at world-building. Each of her societies feels unique and real; they are compelling even when they are clearly references to real-world cultures. I can't wait to read more from her.

pazelso's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

lucaswordcraft's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

ethanleventhal's review against another edition

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5.0

She sets out a society that sounds exactly like ours, then makes it seem like the worst thing in the world. Instead, the anarchists in space are the answer.

While not a surprise that we could do quite a lot better than our current society, the way in which Le Guin describes each aspect of a near-utopian society is excellent, and shows she has clearly thought about every little thing. She has proposed us a new form of government, one in which people are actually kind to one another, and yet, nearly 50 years later, our world is more and more starting to sound like the capitalist hellscape that Urras is.

People may think her unnuanced by that explanation, but even as she explains this utopian society, we find it not without faults, but faults not supporting of a reverting to capitalism: instead, the faults within Anarres are caused only by the inane bureaucracy of a society that stemmed from capitalism.

Possibly the best book I’ve read. Deserved every award it won, and probably more.

maudesmeeiris's review against another edition

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5.0

Oh so good. Invigorating and challenging, philosophical and radical. I loved it. An antitdote to our current capitilist world.

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4.0

Embarrassed to say this is my first Le Guin book. It won’t be my last. Heard about this book on a podcast and didn’t know it was the sixth in a series, but that didn’t matter. Hard to say anything about this book that hasn’t been said better than I could say. Philosophy with sci-fi.

ckcombsdotcom's review against another edition

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5.0

Le Guin is a master of the genre and I always feel that I've returned from a long stay at a temple to the craft when I finish one of her books.

sara_ann_martin's review against another edition

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5.0

Amazing. And I don't use that word lightly.