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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
I'm nearly finished the second Peabody book on my re-read, and am 1/4 of the way through The Left Hand of Darkness. Peabody is definitely fun, although I'm discovering I have to be in the mood to find her idiosyncrasies amusing, not something I remember having felt when I read them 30 years ago. I'm still not sure how I feel about Le Guin's classic, for reasons utterly unconnected to its core, central conceit.
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Fiction is conceit. Possibly most non-fiction is too (there's a reason why they call it "non-fiction" rather than "fact"). Some we like and happily become complicit in, others not so much.
I find Amelia is one of those things best taken in small doses; (at least) a few books between each new Peabody book seems the way to go. Quite unlike reading the Discworld stories where I'm more than happy to binge-read, and only break them up with other reading in order to make them last longer.