Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds

Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds by svsucculents on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:19AM (#19084996)

Le Guin is hard to stomach as you get older. I can read CS Lewis and Tolkien with a forgiving eye but not Lewis. Rowling is terrible. Susan Cooper should have had her success.

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Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds by vidarh on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:05AM (#19085862)

I don't find Le Guin hard to stomach at 43. CS Lewis on the other hand is heavy-handed religious propaganda.

But I can understand some taking issue with Le Guin. The language of the Earthsea books in particular is intentionally simple. My 9 year old has read most of the Earthsea books, and the series was initially explicitly targeted at teenagers.

For some that's hard to look past.

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Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds by RosanaAnaDana on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:29AM (#19086819)

Some le Guin is a little, unpolished. Some of her magazine short stories; Rocannon's World, which is vaguely set in the ecumenical universe, but flying cat horses?

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Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds by RosanaAnaDana on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:26AM (#19086792)

I think I've reread her whole earthsea cycle about every decade since ~1996, so maybe its time for another go.

I will say, some of her magazine fiction didn't age well. Some of the shorter stories and dime novels are fun, but, well wonky and incoherent. Not that I think she was going for coherence, but it distracts from the narrative once you are bit familiar with her worlds.

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