The Telling (Audible Audio Edition) Ursula K Le Guin Gabra Zackman Audible Studios Books
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Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth will discover a group of outcasts who still practice its lost religion - the Telling.
Intrigued by their beliefs, she joins them on a sacred pilgrimage into the mountains...and into the dangerous terrain of her own heart, mind, and soul.
The Telling (Audible Audio Edition) Ursula K Le Guin Gabra Zackman Audible Studios Books
Listening to this novel as a audiobook made it very real to me. I haven't read the book in hard copy. Usually I read hard copy and then listen to an audio version. I am reluctant to read the book for fear it might diminish my full appreciation of this reading. The reading is excellent. The story, as have been all of Le Guin's stories which I have read, was deeply moving.Product details
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The Telling (Audible Audio Edition) Ursula K Le Guin Gabra Zackman Audible Studios Books Reviews
I love Ursula K LeGuin. She created amazing worlds and engaging characters. The Telling was a great addition to the Hannish Cycle.
Fine character, Sutty, and fascinating potential for the concept, but the story bogged down in the last quarter and eventually fizzled out in my opinion.
It is not often that I read a science fiction that is Taoist in character. I am also reading her translation of the Tao Te Ching, and they say much the same thing. The ancient religion on this planet is non-judgmental, non-theistic. Its focus is much on living in the moment and accepting what is happening.
The book is as much about our present world as about the imaginary world. Could the right wing fundamentalists become Unists and destroy the world? Only if allowed. Is there a move to the world of the maz? I think so, though it is not big or overly popular. Many have taken up meditation, and much of New Thought out of the late 19th Century and New Age from the late 20th Century tend to that. On the other hand, the secularization of Europe and its turn from religion -- fueled frequently by the scandals of the Roman Catholic church and the callousness with which it has been handled -- could lead to a spiritless and bureaucratized Europe perhaps presaged by the mindless bureaucracy of the European Union.
This is a lovely, delightful book. It is not a zininging pseudo-military adventure, but a quiet walk in the forest. Enjoy.
Poetic, moving, sensitive and, in her typically gentle way, didactic, is how I felt while reading and after finishing The Telling. As it has been ever since The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, LeGuin's SF is not just a good story but tries to tell us something about ourselves and the cultural-political-economic state of the present. This novel also has a journey in it that reminds me of the glacial trek of Genly Ai in The Left Hand of Darkness, through a mystical mountain wilderness, while the protagonist is being pursued by a representative of the world's dominating corporate culture. Are the comparisons with our own corporate culture obvious and caricatured? Are intolerance and religious fanaticism portrayed negatively? Yes, and all to the better. Is LeGuin lecturing us? Maybe, but because her prose is so beautiful, her characters so interesting and full, her alien world so well-rounded and diverse, her world's native, highly literate, non-corporate way of life so appealing and its destroyers so depressingly like those of our own world, that I sat through the entire lecture not caring that I was being taught a lesson.
My favorite author went back to her SF roots and gave us a novel that I will treasure forever.
In "The Telling", as well as in all her books, Le Guin unveils a whole civilisation, its religion and language, its customs and practices. This is its strong point.
Also, the book has an LGBT aspect. The protagonist is a lesbian who has fled formerly Theocratic Earth. Living in modern Aka, a modernist yet homophobic regime, she finally discovers the Old Aka's liberal attitube towards same-same couples who even have the freedom to join the clergy.
It is mostly a book about religion and oppression, topics that are still relevant today. Even when I read the final page, I wanted to keep on reading. Overall, a great book and a pleasant read.
Technology/ consumer driven society vs. the past.
Interesting story about the past has being deleted by technology/ consumerism.
We were afraid of such society as we only embraced new things.
But with the vintage trend and hipsters bringing back old ways, thankfully, a society where technology is valued
seems a bit farther away (whew...).
Ursula LeGuin has created a universe, in her Hainish series, in which the millennia-old wisdom and tolerance of one ancient species provides a perspective with which other cultures can be evaluated dispassionately, and in which a series of other cultures provide subjects well worthy of such evaluation, and themselves serve as a mirror on our own society. In masterpieces such as The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Word for World is Winter, she uses these invented societies to offer a deep perspective on feminism, gender, militarism, and more
In The Telling, LeGuin turns her focus to religious fanaticism. Needless to say, she doesn't think much of it. The protagonist grew up on an Earth in the last stage of an era of fanaticism that will look all too familiar to many modern Americans, and is now a diplomat serving on a world that is very different, but no less fanatical, than the world of her youth. LeGuin sheds a gentle light on why people embrace fundamentalism, and the forces behind its rise and fall. It's not an overwhelming masterpiece like The Dispossesed, but it's still a great and thought-provoking read.
I'd recommend The Telling for anyone who is already a LeGuin fan, and in particular a fan of her Hainish novels. If that doesn't describe you, I'd recommend starting with either The Dispossessed or The Left Hand of Darkness, and moving on to The Telling if, like me, you simply can't get enough of the world she's created.
Listening to this novel as a audiobook made it very real to me. I haven't read the book in hard copy. Usually I read hard copy and then listen to an audio version. I am reluctant to read the book for fear it might diminish my full appreciation of this reading. The reading is excellent. The story, as have been all of Le Guin's stories which I have read, was deeply moving.
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