The Left Hand of Darkness

Tough book to review. It's ambitiously scoped, it opened my mind, and presented a lot of interesting ideas. But most of the writing was uninspiring, dare I say boring, the book is poorly paced (everything falls into place in the last 20 pages) and I found the use of the first-person past tense throughout to give a disconnectedness to the narration. Parts of this book were riveting, yes, and there are a couple of chapters where the writing is beautiful, but it mostly drags along slowly.