stuebinm replied to Emily hiding in a stack of books :3's status
@chwiggy@books.theunseen.city it's deservedly a classic & this book means a lot to me, but you can def smell the 60ies sometimes (I am honestly unsure if Genly Ai is meant to be unsympathetic and weird about it (tm) sometimes, or just an everyman relatable to a culture which is thankfully no longer quite as bad)
(oh also, re the pronouns thing: Le Guin did write a follow-up story set in Karhide using a generic "she", and then first an essay defending her choice of non-they pronouns, and then ten years later a re-edited version of the same essay but with a complete reverse of her earlier opinion, including several sentences of the old version interrupted by her shouting "no!" at her younger self :D)
@chwiggy@books.theunseen.city it's deservedly a classic & this book means a lot to me, but you can def smell the 60ies sometimes (I am honestly unsure if Genly Ai is meant to be unsympathetic and weird about it (tm) sometimes, or just an everyman relatable to a culture which is thankfully no longer quite as bad)
(oh also, re the pronouns thing: Le Guin did write a follow-up story set in Karhide using a generic "she", and then first an essay defending her choice of non-they pronouns, and then ten years later a re-edited version of the same essay but with a complete reverse of her earlier opinion, including several sentences of the old version interrupted by her shouting "no!" at her younger self :D)
