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A review by alreadyemily
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
3.0
This was a hard book for me to read in 2019. Spending a lot of time in the POV of a cocksure, ignorant, aggressive, sexist, racist, anti-intellectual, colonialist and oppressor construing facts as “fake news”, spreading lies, and pushing his own agenda ahead in the face of all common sense, ethics, and the censure of his peers!?
FAR too familiar and something I could easily get from simply watching the news. Sorry Le Guin, your idea to include the perspective of the bad guy is nice and all, and the story's concept is solid, but in my current when/where it was often excruciating.
FAR too familiar and something I could easily get from simply watching the news. Sorry Le Guin, your idea to include the perspective of the bad guy is nice and all, and the story's concept is solid, but in my current when/where it was often excruciating.