Ursula’s Reviews > The Left Hand of Darkness > Status Update

...decided to drop it afterall.
I'm sure it's outstanding and whatever praise it got deserved, but i guess it's just not for me and i can't be bothered to trudge through when there's other books to check out

Furthermore, i don't want to give up on it just yet, but since it's quite tedious i might read something else alongside, so it doesn't fully kill my drive to read :')
Sad about it though; not sure what i expected but still

So far feeling quite indifferent about things :x
The part with the foretellers was interesting, and i like that Estraven has a pov now too, but lots of stuff is confusing/boring

I'm gonna assume it's bc it's from the view of narrowminded humans, but the fact that a huge part is that all gethians are genderless when outside of a certain timeframe makes it weird to then keep reading small stories/recountings of them were multiple individuals keep being referred to as 'man' and he/him pronouns as default...

Hoping that will change either with "newer" stories or at least with our main...