{"id":855,"date":"2003-09-02T22:56:32","date_gmt":"2003-09-02T22:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=855"},"modified":"2012-04-24T22:57:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:57:34","slug":"the-other-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"The Other Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Other Wind<\/em> by Ursula K. Le Guin<\/h3>\n<p>Eleven people attended this discussion at the home of the Brothers Siros. \t\t\tTen people finsihed the book, which was deemed an &#8220;easy read.&#8221; Seven \t\t\thad read Le Guin previously and six had read all or some of her EarthSea \t\t\tseries. The readers of EarthSea found this to be intriguing and well tied \t\t\tin with the previous storyline. A classic fantasy with dragons and magic, \t\t\tthe book dealt with deep philosophies of love, death, and identity. \t\t\tEveryone spoke on how well Le Guin handled prose but for many the novel \t\t\tlacked ACTION. One reader described the pace of the book as \t\t\t&#8220;glacial.&#8221; This lack of ACTION hampered many readers&#8217; enjoyment, \t\t\tand much we discussed if a new writer could have gotten away with  \t\t\twriting such a <!--more-->delicate novel. (Agreement: No) Many people commented on \t\t\tthe distant viewpoints, which made them feel disconnected from the characters \t\t\tand their stories. One reader felt the characters were all people whose \t\t\tmain emotions happened prior to the start of the novel. For the readers who \t\t\tcould survive the last of ACTION, the book explored some interesting ideas. \t\t\tOne person felt that Le Guin was on the brink of making a main statement \t\t\ton the nature of power but backed down for some reason. Afterwards several \t\t\tpeople had burgers at Fuddruckers.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Judy Strange<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin Eleven people attended this discussion at the home of the Brothers Siros. Ten people finsihed the book, which was deemed an &#8220;easy read.&#8221; Seven had read Le Guin previously and six had read all or some of her EarthSea series. The readers of EarthSea found this to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}