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I'm not sure if I've read this fully before. I know I started it before. This really is very accademic in the style, and it ends up being off putting in ways. Also there's a lot of justification as how the sexism, isn't.

I've read this at least once before, I'm pretty sure twice before. It's likely to stay in my collection despite not really liking much of what it has to say. As my mum said opening it randomly, "It looks like a lot of psychobable." I could give more specific criticism, but one thing I felt bothered me a lot about it is that it probably tended to be rather "cis-het" in ways that kind of are offputting. It expends beyond that, but it kind of ends up being rather conservative in terms of social constructs, and also rather prescriptive in a lot of ways.

I feel the nice writing was good. Not sure what it was about it. But really? It is otherwise not much worth it. And not like some of the "not much worth it" books I've read which it has felt like, "at least I can say that I've read that, and give an honest opinion of it." It feels like the only way that's going to be a topic of discussion would be if suddenly I became less than half my current age...

OK, this is distinctly readable... But really terrible plot/character/setting wise. OK, not fair to say that about the setting, the location isn't all that bad, it was just the "sub locations" and related to why those characte4rs (most of the main ones) were there. I honestly enjoyed reading it, but I can't say I'm that interested in reading any more of it. I do have another similar sized book in the series, it's not the next one. It would be the one after the next one if I were to pick the similar version of the next one. I don't really feel that skipping ahead is a terrible idea.

There is a rather diverse selection of topics, some of them I disagreed with, but then this was published 1985, and I have to say that part of the disagreement, is changes that have occurred since that time. Other sections I had a hard time reading. I have tried to read this before and it's a big book... And I think part of what makes it hard, is that the tone/topic can change and become "boring" for a longer period than is really comfortable to really read through. It was a nice deck reading book where I'd read a bit, take a break and get back to a bit later in the nice weather.

It's actually been a while...

This is a book that I probably wouldn't have picked up if it wasn't at the library's "free books" shelf. Not really because it wasn't good, it was pretty good, but other than being poetry I wouldn't have even picked it up there, as I know nothing really about this. So... Was it good? Yes, mostly. It's just that it wasn't as much to my liking (and it could have been the time I was reading as it wasn't the good reading time of year exactly.

Dates are certainly not right, but I didn't note what the reading times were.

I have read this multiple times and probably will continue to read it. I have found it interesting, there's times in the story that I go... "no that's not right..." But that is also part of the story.

This was tricky to read. I can't entirely say why, but I've found that Ursula K. le Guin is kind of hard to read. The stories are good, but I find the writing tricky. The main story was kind of hard, but the stuff after it was a bit better.

Or maybe not, I shouldn't judge your experience, but made me cry multiple times. Sometimes because bad things happen, sometimes because good things happened. Sometimes because it was just beautiful. The stories tend to mostly pretty good, and I'm sure some people will find different ones good. There were a couple that fell flat for me, but it could well be just when I was reading it.

I've read some of this, quite some time ago. Want to read it again. Maybe finish it this time.

I've had this for a bit, and probably not properly read it.

This took ages to read, it was a sauna book, probably for over a year.