“What books didn’t influence me?” she writes. “If only someone would ask that! I’ve been waiting for years to answer it. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, I will say, had absolutely no influence on me except to cause hours of incredulous boredom. I thought in all fairness I ought to try The Fountainhead. I gave up on page 10.”
- Ursula K Le Guin
Everything I read from her is gold, if Le Guin actually had any bad takes hide them from me: I need this.
As you wish
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For one she aggressively defended copyright and opposed book digitalization
I read a comment on it a while ago which underlines your point, though it was from her fear that the more is digitized, the less authors have control over their work and thus only capitalist expedient books and authors are able to sustain their life from that. So it remains a bad take, based on her own relations in the production process and the antagonism between her being the producer of wares and us who want to consume (and are in demand of culture for the masses since we are free of capital).
Thing is that this is true. I can't think if any now, but I know that a few digitized books have had revisions done to them post-publishing, with the originals unable to be now purchased. Like, the author finished the book a certain way, its not cool for the publisher to go back and edit. Like Lucas changing the guns to walkie talkies.
She said she doesn't consider herself an anarchist because she doesn't do any praxis
Fun fact: I can't remember where I read it but I know Le Guin stated she read the entire LotR trilogy in 3 days when she was young.
