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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Anything written by Ursula K. Le Guin is going to be a struggle to read and not enjoyable.
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I first became entranced by SF in the late 1960s and early 70s, and read everything I could find by Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke and Heinlein, basically the only SF writers widely available here at that time.
At the same time, I was also reading huge quantities of other books in every genre and of every quality, and couldn't help noticing the generally poor quality of the actual writing of the SF blokes - particularly Heinlein (God, the bloody awful dialogue) and Asimov (almost schoolboyish).
So the discovery of Ursula K Le Guin's Hainish series of books was a revelation - at last, a genuine literary-quality writer writing interesting and enjoyable books in the SF genre!