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Title: boring
Review: The author of this book can boast a number of awards to shame any living writer and the book itself has reaped two impressive ones.Still, I cannot avoid the feeling of its uselessness.The plot meshes the description of the clash of an alien envoy with a local culture with the narrative of a complex political intrigue inside the same local culture.Both are finely drawn but utterly lacking interest. Ms Le Guin deliberately keeps the story's profile low so that even the adventure filled escape of the main hero from an hostile country highlights the majesty of the landscapes of the planet he has landed on.Unfortunately both the impressive landscapes and the political intrigue are not interesting enough to be stretched for 300 pages and what she achieves , more than a believable matter of fact report of a first approach of two cultures, is an unavoidable sense of dullness.Chapeau to the writer's skills, which are many, but, sorry, I still think a book has to be entertaining in the first place.
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