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Title: Tedious and Dull
Review: I am a big science fiction fan, but I am forced to review Left Hand of Darkness in a negative light. I just can't see why this book received the great reviews it did; it was such a bore. I expected the 2 Gethen factions to go to war, at least that would have made this novel interesting. I like action in my science fiction; this book was worse than 2061 in terms of action and pace. The most annoying aspect about this novel was the tedious trek by the 2 protagonists to Karhide. That journey used at least 1/3 of the novel space! I thought I was getting my incisors ripped out when I was reading it. The only group of people I would recogmend this book to would be anthropologists due to the cultural emphasis Le Guin puts on the Gethenians.
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