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She HATES Ursula Le Guin after Wrinkle. Brave New World I think is a bit meh if you haven't experienced workplace type politics. Have you read Hunger Games, Pie? I'd be interested to hear your take on it. (Yes, it's a teen book)
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Wrong author -- Madeleine L'Engle wrote A Wrinkle in Time. Ursula K. Le Guin wrote the Earthsea series ( highly recommended).
I found the religious themes of L'Engle's works to be utterly heavy-handed. Le Guin, on the other hand, explicitly turns Christian themes on their heads.
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This is a writer who – in the 1960's, decades before Harry Potter and all that – simply seized the patriarchal-Christian fantasy tradition laid down by Lewis and Tolkien by the scruff of its neck and reimagined it from a feminist, post-Judaeo-Christian point of view.
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Le Guin rocks.
No, I haven't read Hunger Games. I will look it up!
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The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.
Last edited by Pie; 03-16-2010 at 08:49 AM.
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