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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
(It does irk me a little that she went into recovery mode a bit in response to criticism. This sounds much like JK Rowling's insistence after the completion of publication that Dumbledore was gay.)
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Rowling's my poster girl for someone who should have shut up about her books long ago.
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Originally Posted by latepaul
Has anyone else read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas? It's also by LeGuin but is a short story rather than a novel.
I just realised I had a similar experience with it as with The Left Hand of Darkness. It contains a strong central philosophical "what if?" question which I knew before I read it, and it left me feeling like it hadn't explored that question in much more detail.
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I hadn't read it, but I bit as my OD library had it and it was short.
I didn't know the premise before reading it. In fact, I'm less inclined to excuse the story than the novel, as I found the story too facile to me. It certainly wasn't nearly as effective as a famous story on a similar theme by a different author a quarter-century earlier.