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Title: This book left me bored...
Review: I read this book for a scifi/fantasy lit class I was taking at the time. The teacher started off with this book because it was one of the first real popular fantasy books that was non-tolkien. I have varying tastes, but all I really desire in a fantasy book is enough detail to make the world feel real, characters that I can care about, and a unique story. This book seemed to be lacking all of those things. I guess it was just to simple for me, and too short to really get invested in the story. I believe it was written in the late 60s and you can really tell, it shows it's age compared to more modern fantasy. I haven't read any of LeGuin's other stuff, but one thing I do know, is that I just did not like this book at all. Also, stay away from the movie version, after watching that I suddenly didn't think the book was so bad.
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