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I think The Dispossessed is the best book in the Hainish cycle. And possibly the best book out of all LeGuin's books people usually recommend.

• mulderc 3y ago
  It might be my favorite book. I read it during the pandemic and started sending copies to friends as I loved it that much.
  • adbachman 3y ago
    In my top five, too. I have two copies right now, the second is a first edition I found at a free bookstore. I've given one other away, will probably send another with a kid when they move out. It's the dryness, for me. She evokes the setting so clearly and in so few words, it took me by surprise. Also my first exposure to thoughtful anarchist ideas, which has been fun. That and Wizard of Earthsea. Which is as spare, poetic, and strange as any YA magic fiction book wishes it could be.
    • mulderc 3y ago
      I grew up in the Pacific NW, not far from where Le Guin lived, and this book is the clearest picture of the political philosophy of the area I have ever seen. They don't call it the People's Republic of Portland for nothing.