wobs,
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I gave Gibbon the old graduate school try, and with the same course of action that I secured my terminal ABD, I did not finish. His verbosity and the ridiculousness of his discussion of early Christianity broke me.

Getting my head back on straight with Ursula Le Guin.

“The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” back on the shelf at the neighborhood little library.
Text from the back cover of "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Text reads: URSULA K. LE GUIN'S GROUNDBREAKING WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION- WINNER OF THE HUGO AND NEBULA AWARDS A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants' gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters... Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of science fiction.
Cover of the book "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin, 50th Anniversary Edition. The design is split into light and dark halves with the title text spanning both sides.

mrcompletely,
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@wobs now that's a good book! Gibbon is useless from a modern perspective, while Ursula gains force and depth over time. With a clearer perspective of age I now believe she's the single most important SF writer in the history of the genre.

wobs,
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@mrcompletely I'm excited to get going on this one. I'm looking forward to an experience where I'm not constantly trying to get through the same sentence for 15 minutes.

mrcompletely,
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@wobs Ursula loves you and wants you to be happy

reading history can be hard enough without archaic prose and even more archaic ideas

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