the dispossessed

As I excitedly announced last month my favorite book won the Gazette’s book club poll.1 I reread it for this occasion to freshen up my memory of it and I enjoyed it all the more for it. As Kami said, it’s an astonishing book on a technical level that is not that easy to get into and takes time to pick up steam, but that doesn’t bother me personally at all. I went into it for the politics—it definitely changed my outlook on life—and knew it didn’t have the YA novel pacing that I was so used to expecting before starting my studies. Let’s say the kind of literature I have to read for my degree kind of hardened me into a more patient reader who doesn’t expect a climax and just relishes it when it comes. All this to say that political theory/philosophy is pretty dry unless you’re a nerd for it, which I am. What I really liked in this book was the world-building. The author wrote the story as if Anarres existed in my world and just dropped information as the plot went on. It wasn’t…