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So recently I had that conversation that people who are hardcore into Le Guin are always having - the one where you start talking to someone about her, and they're like "Oh, I've read those books!" and then you find out that they mean that they read Left Hand of Darkness and Wizard of Earthsea and nothing else. Which is fine! As reading goes, but those are also my two least favorite Le Guin books. I read Left Hand of Darkness when I was a teenager - my mother had a copy on the shelf with all the Elizabeth A. Lynn - and I was just not pleased with it. At all.

But I was talking again with someone who said it was one of their favorite books, and I thought, well, I'll give it a try, so I'm halfway through again. ( Spoilers! Gender! Baby boomers! Don Draper? )