We had a good roll up to Nice Guys and talked about this month's book, The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin. We felt that the book was good, with the sort of middle third of the book really crackling along and very tense. Towards the end of the book it becomes a bit confusing and almost incoherent as the different threads of the dreams seem to become ever more convoluted.
One of the things that Mark has said in the past is that a good story has character development and while one of the main protagonists, Haber, does develop from being power hungry to being blindly obsessed with changing the world to his whim, there's not much change in the other characters.
While it's nominally a sci fi story, I felt as though there were elements of horror that came in as the reader wonders what else is going to go wrong. That's not a bad thing, it certainly built tension.
Our next book is The Lover by Marguerite Duras. Look forward to seeing everyone at Nice Guys for our last book group meeting of the year on Dec 6 at 8:00.
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