<story><title>Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pkkim</author><text>I want to plug one of her lesser known books, Always Coming Home. It&amp;#x27;s set among a tribe of people living in the Bay Area way, way after some apocalypse has erased the memory of our civilization. Much of the book is reports from an anthropologist studying the people.&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of her books are about how many different ways of life and types of society and culture are possible, and this book is one of her best at bringing you in to another culture.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>goostavos</author><text>How timely. I just finished reading The Word for World is Forest last night.&lt;p&gt;Nobody likes a poo-pooer, but, holy moly, I thought it was unbelievable trash. Are her other books better? This one was &amp;quot;noble savages: the book&amp;quot;. The Creechies can&amp;#x27;t even &lt;i&gt;conceive&lt;/i&gt; of inter-species murder until Big Bad Comic Book Evil Guy (who just &lt;i&gt;loves&lt;/i&gt; being evil) introduces it. The creechies don&amp;#x27;t know evil. They settle their disputes as all superior noble people would: through &lt;i&gt;art&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I probably just got in my own way while reading. There was a lot of &amp;quot;wait.. they&amp;#x27;re sending _wood_ through interstellar space?&amp;quot;. They have an ecology that can support a supply chain that produces food in excess to perform 40+ year round trips through space, but... they can&amp;#x27;t grow a tree? A tomato plant? Sure. A tree? Nah.&lt;p&gt;It might be a good kids book, if not for all the... raping.</text></comment>