Great loss. It's hard to name one's favorite book *ever* but people do ask. I usually waver between saying The Dispossessed or the Left Hand of Darkness—both hers. Ursula K. LeGuin was a great American novelist with such great range and imagination. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html …
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My mind is just looping on the ending of The Dispossessed. When I read that book first (because I read it many times!), I had just learned English. I remember feeling so so so thrilled that my new language gave me access to such an amazing story. What a gift it was.
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My favorite passage from "The Dispossessed" "For each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tomb of the dead kings, and each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger."pic.twitter.com/nQR3gkhFZp
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Mine is "Everything is beautiful, here. Only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces, the men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other" So true and deeppic.twitter.com/BDAb0pk7E6
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