Reviews and Comments

Finished Planet of Exile, the second book.

I like how the History of the League of Worlds isn't the main focus in her novels. Although new hints appear here and there.

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Finished Rocannon's World!

I liked that it's full of action! It's peril after peril in an alien world. That was a surprise after reading the earthsea sagas.

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Now, to read the scifi novels and stories.

Finally! It was a great reading. Ursula's notes are an interesting insight to her writing process and inspiration.

Me entretuvo mucho y parece bastante bien documentado, al menos a lo que se sabía en la década de los 70's

Zizek reduce hechos culturales, políticos o sociales a su mínima expresión en forma de chistes. Esta es una recopilación de los chistes que aparecen en sus obras.

Finished the story "Darkrose and Diamond". It's a love story about two teenagers finding out what they want to do with their lives.

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I've finished the third and fourth entries of the saga.

In "The Farthest Shore" the magic is running out of the world; Ged and the prince of Enlad part in an adventure to find out what the problem is. It's a book full of adventure, visiting many Islands in the archipelago.

In contrast, "Tehanu" has a slower pace. It's a fantasy novel in which dragons and magic are not in the foreground. It answers the question How does the dispossessed, children, women, handicapped, live in a world with magic? And doing so makes you think about the power relations in the so called real world.

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I finished the second book in the saga titled "The Tombs of Atuan". It's great.

It follows the story of Tenar, a girl taken to an old temple in the desert to be the priestess devoted to the "Nameless Ones", ancient gods long forgotten.

She was very lonely there; all her life changed when she met Ged, the first book's protagonist, who was in the underground labyrinth under the temple looking for an ancient relic. This encounter completely changes Tenar's life.

The main topics of the book are freedom, gender, and the power relations emanating between those, reflecting the anarchist views of Ursula.

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@bookstodon@a.gup.pe Finished the first book 'A wizard of Earthsea'. I like how the book is not about good vs evil. It's more about a personal search of oneself. #fantasy #UrsulaKLeGuin

The tittle is inspired in a tale attributed to Saint Augustine of Hippo. In the tale, Alexander the Great's navy arrests a pirate who was ravaging the Mediterranean; the pirate argues that both him and Alexander plunder the Mediterranean, the difference being that Alexander has an army and navy.

With this framework, Chomsky studies the war on terror from the late twentieth century and early twentieth first century.

I found it instructive in understanding current events, and it's well documented with many references to further reading.

Colección de ensayos de Noam Chomsky escritos durante la última década del siglo pasado. Para Noam, un Estado canalla es aquel que tiene un cierto grado de poder e influencia a tal grado de retratar sus actos, y los de sus aliados, como justos y gloriosos; al mismo tiempo, las acciones de quienes reciben su castigo son de las más atroces.

Con este enfoque, Chomsky critica la implicación de EEUU en el embargo a Cuba, su intervención en Latinoamérica, etc.

Lo que me pareció más interesante es el rechazo histórico de EEUU ante la declaración universal de los Derechos Humanos.

Fue una lectura algo pesada, no voy a mentir. La interrumpi antes del 7 de octubre y después la retomé.