2011 Reading #72: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
71. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
72. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. Holy fucking crap this is good. The influence of PKD is obvious, here, but married with Le Guin's humanism and deft character work, and also to the setting--I've only been to Portland once, but reading this book made me want to go back. It also made me think of Lethem's Amnesia Moon, a book which also travels through a world which keeps shifting under the character's feet, but doesn't work because it's too gimmicky and not grounded enough in the cause or mechanism of that. I wish I had read this years ago.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
71. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
72. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. Holy fucking crap this is good. The influence of PKD is obvious, here, but married with Le Guin's humanism and deft character work, and also to the setting--I've only been to Portland once, but reading this book made me want to go back. It also made me think of Lethem's Amnesia Moon, a book which also travels through a world which keeps shifting under the character's feet, but doesn't work because it's too gimmicky and not grounded enough in the cause or mechanism of that. I wish I had read this years ago.