The Left Hand of Darkness

I'm not sure how to review this even...it's definitely a book where I can look at it abstractly and believe it must have been groundbreaking to read in 1969, or even like, ten years ago. As it is, reading it for the first time in 2018 was a little like “yeah, sure, gender roles are arbitrary, duh” and it was hard to keep the right mindset. It's definitely a slow-paced, world-building type book, which is......not my favorite thing to read? Still, as I kept on and started to understand the world itself, I definitely found it to be a compelling read. I simultaneously want to re-read it and also am not sure when I will have the mental energy to re-read it?