Play Book Tag discussion

What can I say about a book that is hailed as one of the greatest pieces of fiction of all time? Nothing. I really can't. I will not disrespect this book by saying anything negative about it. I think my opinions about this book may have changed over the years, but that by no means makes this a poor read. Instead of being critical about the book, I am going to celebrate it with some of my favorite quotes from this book:

“Like and equal are not the same thing at all.”
(No wonder this book is considered to be allegorical! Definitely some political innuendo there..)

“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

“If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we’d be—we’d be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.”

This book is a masterpiece. However, it simply didn't resonate with my older self as it had with my younger self. With that said, I can still recognize this for what it was: A book ahead of its time that was extremely controversial. It has seen much success and has been exulted by fans everywhere.

I had many of the same feelings when I read it last month......I remember loving it as a kid when I read it, but I didn’t remember much of the plot.

I felt the opposite, when I reread it recently I saw again everything that made me fall in love with it when I was a kid!

I can't wait for the movie!

I hadn't even heard of it until comments on PBT recently, and I had no idea it was such a classic. Then I saw it at Melbourne airport on Monday, so that dealt with some of my flight to Singapore, lol. I liked it and can appreciate how startling it would have been when it came out, but I didn't love it. If it had been a favourite book from my childhood, though, I think I'd feel very differently about it. Ursula Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea occupies that place in my heart - my introduction to other worlds and challenging ideas.

I want to reread this before I go see the movie!

Nicole, that's why I read it! I wanted to reread it before the movie.. and I am definitely going to go see the movie!!