Interesting about the books, you'd think they'd all be fantastic but I don't fancy any of them from your description. I am reading The Left Hand of Darkness.
I wouldn't bother with them if they don't scream out to you Lesley. Quite a shame in my opinion. I don't know any Le Guin but she was quoted a fair bit in the robert Macfarlane books I just read, so I trust she is good!
I understand it now, what it's got that MacFarlane likes is a very long journey with landscape descriptions. Snow and ice, dragging a sledge, frostbite threatening, volcanoes. I feel very moved by this book, as Ursula LG said in her introduction, I feel as though I have met someone new. I'm going to read it again. Xx
Interesting about the books, you'd think they'd all be fantastic but I don't fancy any of them from your description. I am reading The Left Hand of Darkness.
I wouldn't bother with them if they don't scream out to you Lesley. Quite a shame in my opinion. I don't know any Le Guin but she was quoted a fair bit in the robert Macfarlane books I just read, so I trust she is good!
That's astonishing - I would never have guessed that Macfarlane, with his love of this natural world, would be reading speculative fiction.
What can't he do? Stay tuned...
Best
George
I understand it now, what it's got that MacFarlane likes is a very long journey with landscape descriptions. Snow and ice, dragging a sledge, frostbite threatening, volcanoes. I feel very moved by this book, as Ursula LG said in her introduction, I feel as though I have met someone new. I'm going to read it again. Xx
Sounds great! It goes onto the list