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Although I love most of her fantasy works, I found 'The Dispossessed' to be too difficult for me. However, that's probably because her interests were broader th
by dtgriscom 8mo ago
Although I love most of her fantasy works, I found 'The Dispossessed' to be too difficult for me. However, that's probably because her interests were broader than mine.
- eternauta3k 8mo agoIf you want some help then check out Mythgard Academy's course: https://mythgard.org/academy/dispossessed/ https://mythgard.org/academy/dispossessed/
- dtgriscom 8mo agoThanks, but watching an eighteen-hour seminar on a book so that I can enjoy that book doesn't seem worth it to me. (Note that "to me"; I'm quite open to being a literary lightweight. My experience of AP English in high school was that it inoculated me against the great works of literature.)
- scarecrowbob 8mo agoI eventually dropped out of a PhD Lit program, but damn the AP English syllabus did everything it could do to dissuade me from enjoying literature. I feel you on not wanting to read stuff that can't be read without footnotes.
- scarecrowbob 8mo agoAs a person actively organizing with anarchists and who has had a lot of long, fraught relationships leading to my late 40s, I found the Dispossessed to be relatable is ways I wouldn't have if I'd read it earlier in life. I don't know if it's a difficult book, but I can see how it might land differently for me in different situations.