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So, uh, you do eventually plan to have octopi in your octopus book, right?

Oh, so EVERYONE is racist.

This is beautiful and poetic and takes forever to get through. I like movies.

I'm still reading this, I swear!!! I'm an anti-racist!

I was wondering if this was ever gonna get horny.

You guys - Tom is REALLY TRYING to not kill anyone. There's just certain circumstances, you know?

Needs more shark

Wow, this is not very good.

Ok I'm starting to remember why I gave up on this book about halfway through - the narrator is becoming insufferable and the [spoilers] are not interesting enough to power through. I will endeavor to continue this time.

Apparently I've read this before, but have no memory of it. I would cast Jim Carrey.

Cadillac Desert reference!

Started over. This is heavy.

Needs more SPHERE.

This.... is not very good

They called Sputnik "a metal box" 🧐

maybe this dinosaur island was a bad idea

At no point in reading this have I thought "this would make a good musical"

Words words words! The book's narrator is an insane librarian in the midst of a midlife crisis. Someone please hide her thesaurus.

This book is full of gobbledygook like "How can blind unplan produce a string thick with desire to reveal its own fundament?" that is - trust me - deep and profound and moving in context, and no, not quite as insufferable as it seems.

Or maybe the opposite: surface profundity and brilliant language-play hides a vacuous core?

Is that the mystery? Either way, it's taking me a while to get through this. Good luck.

Halfway through Planet of Exile, and it's a slog compared to Rocannon's World, which was a bit of a drag after the excellent first chapter/short story. I'll stick with this but I'm afraid Le Guin's first novels are not gripping me the way her later work does. Sci-fi filtered through fantasy does seem an interesting approach.

I'm beginning to believe there is such thing as too much Brian Eno.

Literally narrated by a librarian, I haven't decided yet if the obsession with words and references is brilliant or obnoxious, but leaning latter. Powering through for the so-far-so-good character development and sleuthing.

📼🤯

"There was always an alternative" p105
This book Hainish-cycles.

Terrifying: in the future, arguing on the Internet will be the only activity left for humanity. That, and eating sandwiches.

Do restaurants exist in the future? Everyone is constantly cooking and doing dishes. Is this socialism?

We're so fucked.