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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (Tears) The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:17:59 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <vk9vmp$q0pb$1@dont-email.me> References: <vk96gl$e93$1@reader2.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:18:18 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a5646fcbc91b44dc054b7565a9eb7788"; logging-data="852779"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/cnBcrCJpW1J5K8e0qrH+S" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fs82TvXbEVrb8QyKxd35SKJOJbA= In-Reply-To: <vk96gl$e93$1@reader2.panix.com> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 241222-4, 12/22/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 2026 James Nicoll wrote: > The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin > > A physicist determined to complete his research emigrates from a planet > of idealists to a planet of economic surpluses. > > https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-best-things-in-life-are-free > When reading this book for the first time, I had trouble banishing the image of one of my professors. I eventually figured out that privations in the second world war had given him some of Shevek's attitude. Though he was congenial enough, I think he remained faintly surprised, or possibly amused, at the way we ignored the vast wealth in which we lived. Other characters reminded me strongly of some older socialists I knew. Socialists of the "pitch in and get it done" type, not the champagne type. LeGuin must have met some people of this class, as they are very well drawn. William Hyde