stermy4u@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 13 days agoWhat's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?message-squaremessage-square207linkfedilinkarrow-up1226
arrow-up1226message-squareWhat's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?stermy4u@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 13 days agomessage-square207linkfedilink
minus-squareProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-211 days agoThe Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. Few other sci-fi books do as good a job of depicting how a gift/library economy could work like in practice. It’s quite a hopeful vision of where we can collectively go in the future.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·12 days agoThat reminds me that I really need to put more le guin into my book pile
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 days agoIt also shows a realistic version of utopian hope. An eternal struggle for better
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.
Few other sci-fi books do as good a job of depicting how a gift/library economy could work like in practice. It’s quite a hopeful vision of where we can collectively go in the future.
That reminds me that I really need to put more le guin into my book pile
It also shows a realistic version of utopian hope. An eternal struggle for better