Title: Too literal
Product review: Ursula K. Le Guin usually imagines faraway worlds with societies and problems that resemble our own, but are usually unique enough to fascinate the reader. In "The Telling", her producer-consumer society seems too much like China in the cultural revolution, while the outlying mountainous region seems like a carbon-copy of Tibet, complete with old wooden monasteries being buldozed by the new regime. The religious Telling is slightly interesting but seems contrived, unlike the detailed portrait of Odo's anarchic society in the Dispossessed.And as with all her books, the ending is too convienient.
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