• frank
    18.9k

    It's a Hugo winner. It's in a collection of winners I have, edited by Asimov.
  • Jamal
    11.6k


    I've haven't taken any notice of Hugo or Nebula for a long time, ever since I realized how many of the winning novels were rubbish. For example, Larry F. Niven and L. Ron F. Hubbard (the "F" is my own addition) have won the Hugo, Niven many times.

    Forgive my snobbery, Frankie. I'm glad Le Guin got recognition for it.
  • frank
    18.9k

    L. Ron Hubbard didn't win a Hugo. In my collection, Asimov talks about the convention where his followers showed up demanding that he win. There was this weird tone in Asimov's writing when he talked about it.
  • Jamal
    11.6k
    L. Ron Hubbard didn't win a Hugofrank

    Ah, maybe I was looking at nominations.

    I like some Asimov quite a bit.
  • T Clark
    16.1k
    Sounds fun.Jamal

    I’ll put it on my list. Give us your thoughts when you’re done.
  • Jamal
    11.6k


    Aye aye, sir.
  • javi2541997
    7.2k
    Explosion in a Cathedral (also translated as The Age of Enlightenment) by Alejo Carpentier.
  • Jamal
    11.6k
    Russian Gothic by Aleksandr SkorobogatovJamal

    (Original title, Sergeant Bertrand)

    Excellent story. Written in 1991 but takes on new meaning now, although it also has the feel of the classics, especially Gogol.
  • Jamal
    11.6k
    The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin.

    I’ll put it on my list. Give us your thoughts when you’re done.T Clark

    It's a little more solemn and preachy than I would normally go for but she's such a great writer she won me round. Definitely recommended. It really packs a punch; lesser authors like the more recent space opera guys take 3 or 5 hundred pages to do a lot less than she does in just over 100.

    It's not simply an anti-imperialist allegory for America's actions in Indochina, although it partly is that. It's also classic, masterful science fiction, and more subtle and complex than it seems at first.
  • Srap Tasmaner
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    The Eye of the Heron is another short, preachy one. I'm not sure how she gets away with it, but I think part of it is that she's so smart, you trust her and want to listen. We're used to preaching from people who shouldn't — so there's a sort of double offense — but I just don't seem to mind being preached to by her, which is an odd experience.
  • Jamal
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    I just don't seem to mind being preached to by her, which is an odd experienceSrap Tasmaner

    Exactly.

    The Eye of the HeronSrap Tasmaner

    Added to the list.
  • T Clark
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    Definitely recommended.Jamal

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  • Maw
    2.8k
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • BitconnectCarlos
    2.8k
    Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism - Gershom Scholem
    Culture and Value - Wittgenstein
    Faith in a Hard Ground - Anscombe
  • Pantagruel
    3.6k
    The Ontology of Social Being, Volume 3: Labour
    by György Lukács
  • Baden
    16.7k
    Friedrich Schiller - Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man

    Reread. I think Schiller's ideas are very relevant. I see him in a constellation with Adorno, Luhmann, Deleuze, Berardi, and Stiegler. If you're interested in the philosophy of art, in particular, I highly recommend it (though the implications are much wider than the field of art).
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