I read those Dispossessed and LHoD in the 80s, and then reread them more recently, and I’m amazed at how well they hold up. So often stories and sensibilities feel dated when you get to many decades from when they were written, but those two books could have been written yesterday. Both masterpieces, for sure. I’m not sure who you feel they’re inappropriate for teenagers though.
I never read City of Illusions - at least I don’t think I have. I’ll add it to my list. What do you think of Three Body Problem? I read the book and didn’t really care for it (I know I’m in the minority there).
City of illusions is to a degree a sequel to Planet of Exile (which is the only book of hers I think doesn’t hold up), which is kinda a sequel to Rocannon’s World so I definitely recommend reading all three.
I’m enjoying three body Problem but not to the degree I’d recommend it to people. Well made and all that, but it has issues that I feel come directly from cultural differences and from the writing.
Yeah, I wondered if my problems with the 3BP book were culturally-based from the translation, though it was pretty universally lauded as masterful. The motivations and actions of some of the characters just seemed so unlikely to me.
I read those Dispossessed and LHoD in the 80s, and then reread them more recently, and I’m amazed at how well they hold up. So often stories and sensibilities feel dated when you get to many decades from when they were written, but those two books could have been written yesterday. Both masterpieces, for sure. I’m not sure who you feel they’re inappropriate for teenagers though.
I never read City of Illusions - at least I don’t think I have. I’ll add it to my list. What do you think of Three Body Problem? I read the book and didn’t really care for it (I know I’m in the minority there).
City of illusions is to a degree a sequel to Planet of Exile (which is the only book of hers I think doesn’t hold up), which is kinda a sequel to Rocannon’s World so I definitely recommend reading all three.
I’m enjoying three body Problem but not to the degree I’d recommend it to people. Well made and all that, but it has issues that I feel come directly from cultural differences and from the writing.
I’ll put them on the reading list.
Yeah, I wondered if my problems with the 3BP book were culturally-based from the translation, though it was pretty universally lauded as masterful. The motivations and actions of some of the characters just seemed so unlikely to me.