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She REALLY likes using "whatever" as an "etc." And I think ChatGPT is at least partially trained on her writing, because the pages are absolutely littered with em dashes!
I'm slogging through this because there are scraps of interesting takes and useful information that I want to learn and know as a writer. But on the whole, NOT a book I would recommend.

Good grief she's wordy!!! I found myself tripping over the lack of sufficient and well-placed commas, the tendency to write long, and to interject heavily with punctuations that made difficult sentences all the more harder.
She does it so much, I'm writing tediously long sentences now!
Her words choices are also ... a lot. It's a bit pretentious and a bit insufferable, especially compared to Lamott.

Schwarzchild must have read this book in preparing to teach his Creative Writing class. I see a lot of his limited beliefs in the pages of Le Guin's advise. (Yes, I'm still salty 13 years later!)

The advise around POV shifts is feeling a tiny bit dated, because everyone and their mother is doing multiple POV these days. Granted, as Le Guin warns, you've got to do it well or you'll leave the reader feeling very twisted and turned about.

Some of this advice feels a tiny bit outdated. Le Guin approaches POV with a rigidity that I don't think is as necessary in today's fictional and narrative writing.

Guin is so based