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USMC_Karl posted:*edit* Finished chapter 4. Man, the family structure on Anarres is all kinds of messed up. Poor Shevek must have some weird mommy issues to work out. It's unusual to our eyes, but not without precedent in human history, the Israeli kibbutz being the most recent and arguably most extreme; there's a great Guardian article about it here, and it's interesting to compare the description of the kibbutz's communal lifestyle to that of the Anarrans. Le Guin is the daughter of notable anthropologist, and you can see that discipline's influences in most of her work. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that most of the strangeness in both societies of The Dispossessed had direct real-world analogues somewhere.
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Anyone who feels the way USMC_Karl does should run, not walk, to the nearest place they can find Le Guin's other great sci-fi sociology / anthropology novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, which was rightly the BOTM for January 2014. It is just as good as The Dispossessed, possibly better, and is incredibly relevant today - possibly more so than when it was written. Like Dispossessed, it's a slow burn until around the halfway mark, but absolutely worth it.
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