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L'\Education Sentimentale
Gustave Flaubert
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Analyses & reflexions sur Flaubert, L'education sentimentale: L'histoire

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Flaubert: L'éducation sentimentale.
Gustave] [Flaubert
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The National Book Award-winning author takes flight with this bestselling collection of speculative fiction where a woman visits fifteen otherworldly-- yet familiar--societies.

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Fun if not quite brilliant collection of witty stories about alternate societies.......2006-08-06

Ursula Le Guin's new book is Changing Planes, a collection of anthropologically oriented stories about the inhabitants of various different "planes" reached by people sufficiently bored by waiting in airports for delayed flights.

On the whole, it's pretty fun stuff, if rarely brilliant. The best of the stories are mostly those already published, such as "The Seasons of the Ansarac", "Social Dreaming of the Frin", and "The Royals of Hegn". In the best of these Le Guin's imagination regarding alternate social structures, and her wit, are both on display. Some of the new stories are similarly fine. Others are simply routine, or take an okay idea and run too long with it, or in one case, simply reek of contempt for people who don't have Le Guin's taste -- i.e., people who might be so crass as to live in the Midwest or the South, or to have religious beliefs that differ from hers.

Taken as a whole, it's a pretty good book, though as you will gather I wasn't completely pleased. But the stories I've mentioned, and new stories like "Confusions of Uñi", about a constantly-changing world, and "Porridge on Islac", about a plane in which genetic engineering went a bit wild, are very nice stuff.

More enjoyable if you don't read between the lines.......2006-05-06

Changing Planes is a compilation of loosely connected short stories describing a variety of worlds or "planes." Islac, the first plane visited, is a place where genetic engineering has gone haywire and every type of gene splice has occurred (plant-human, human-fish, human-animal, etc). This world is fun, colorful, and bittersweet in a way that gave me great hope for the rest of the collection.

While most of the worlds are interesting, it becomes increasingly clear as you progress through them that each story is a satirical projection against something Le Guin finds distasteful about the modern world. The most obvious satire is found in the plane of Great Joy where a corporation has subjugated a whole people to create a type of Disneyland for shallow American tourists. Goodness is finally achieved when the Great Joy Corporation has been destroyed and the workers socialize the means of production. High five for socialism!

In "Seasons of the Ansarac," a humorless, overbearing industrial civilization tried to impose its culture on a peaceful, celebratory, pre-industrial culture. What a relief that they failed! In each of the planes, the simplistic pre-industrial cultures are in tune with the world around them and their environment. How sweet. The cultures that have gone through industrialization are found in their post-apocalyptic state. I guess that doesn't bode well for our world.

Le Guin's approach often comes across as a lecture because most of the stories are written less like a travelogue and more like an anthropological treatise. Only rarely are individual characters fleshed out -- and in these stories the writing sparkles. As I turned the last page, I wished Le Guin had focused her substantial imagination on inventing compelling new worlds instead of preaching.

PS: If you listened to the audio book, you missed out on Eric Beddows' illustrations for each world. Check out the Ursula Le Guin web site where they have been reproduced.

Quirky and beautiful.......2006-02-25

Oh, why didn't I think of it first? The idea of changing physical planes when waiting in an airport is wonderful! I loved the book, some stories better than others. I've read every one of her adult books I can get my hands on (I own 90%) of them. It is amazing how Le Guin manages to be new every time. What a mind the woman has!

After reading Le Guin, the next book I read has to be a masterpiece not to suffer by comparison. It isn't that Le Guin writes good books. Every sentence she writes is beautiful. And then that they fit together and tell a story is just icing on the cake.

Fun Read!.......2006-01-19

This book makes me think of Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift. It has the appeal and fun of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" through the protagonist's (Sita) travels to varied societies (worlds) which are similar to the many places in "Gulliver's Travels".

The book is written as a pun about the miseries of air travel. The first page will strike a definite chord for anyone who has flown very much. Le Guin calls the worlds she visits "planes" (another little joke here I believe) where the protagonist(Sita Dulip) meets a variety of people. In all Sita goes to 15 different worlds where she meets societies to include a world where applied genetics had gone wrong; a society where the older the people got the less they spoke; another society talks but their words have meanings that change all the time; another world is one of migratory people who like many animals of our own planet trek long distances to mate.

This book is funny, ironic, intelligent, thought-provoking and the ultimate in escapism reading. Even if you've never read Le Guin before, you will be delighted with this book. The only complaint I have with the book is that the drawings in the book are distracting. The artist does a fine job, but I prefer to have my own mental pictures from a book; otherwise, it's a lot of fun to read!

Ursula strikes gold for me..........2004-11-20

I have had a life long love affair with Ursula K LeGuin's writing, though I have not read all of her works, and what I have read of this slim volume so far is absolutely delicious. The chronicles that flow out of the premise are poignant and engaging. I'm already anticipating many more exciting journeys to come. If you haven't read Le Guin before try exploring her Earthsea Series. My mother read it to me as a child and I couldn't thank her enough.

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Delightful, but not perfect
Too Good to be Read in an Airport
Gulliver's New Travels
Good But Not Outstanding
Good for waiting

Changing Planes: Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin
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At first, readers may find Ursula K. Le Guin's collection Changing Planes rather light, if not slight. However, as the reader continues through its sixteen stories (ten of which are original to this volume), the collection achieves considerable weight and power.

A punny conceit links the stories and provides the title of Changing Planes. Conceived before September 11, 2001, this conceit now, unfairly, looks odd. Trapped too many times in the misery of pre-terrorist airports, Sita Dulip discovered how to change planes: not airplanes, but planes of existence. Now the people of Sita's earth travel between alternate universes.

The stories in Changing Planes are strong expressions of Le Guin's considerable anthropological and psychological insight. However, these tales don't follow traditional plot structures or character-development methods. They read more like travelogues, or socio-anthropological articles on foreign nations or tribes. They explore exotic literary planes lying somewhere between Jorge Luis Borges's ficciones and Horace Miner's anthropological satire Body Ritual Among the Nacirema. However, unlike Miner's parody, Le Guin's wise tales are rarely satirical, though "The Royals of Hegn" sharply skewers the absurdity of royalty-worship, and "Great Joy" rightly attacks the boundless corporate criminality familiar to anyone who's read a newspaper since 2001.

One of America's greatest authors, Ursula K. Le Guin has received the National Book Award, the Newberry Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, five Nebula Awards, and five Hugo Awards. --Cynthia Ward

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"Then came a child trotting to school with his little backpack. He trotted on all fours, neatly, his hands in leather mitts or boots that protected them from the pavement; he was pale, with small eyes, and a snout, but he was adorable."
--from Changing Planes

The misery of waiting for a connecting flight at an airport leads to the accidental discovery of alighting on other planes--not airplanes but planes of existence. Ursula Le Guin's deadpan premise frames a series of travel accounts by the tourist-narrator who describes bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own, and sometimes open puzzling doors into the alien.

Winner of the PEN/Malamud for Short Stories

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Delightful, but not perfect.......2006-07-16

This is a delightful little book that takes you on a journey to other planes of existence, other universes, other worlds that are similar to ours.

The best chapter/story in the book is the first one - "Sita Dulip's Method", in which we are told that Sita discovers the "trick" to changing planes - while waiting in an airport for a plane. The description of an airport is great - and absolutely true - especially the line: "In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell."

There are not really any characters, save Sita Dulip, who we don't learn much about, and the narrator, whose name we never learn. We also never learn much about the narrator - except for his? her? curiosity - until the last chapter, when we learn that he? she? is quite the coward.

The chapters/stories are mostly narration & description of the various planes. Some of the stories are veiled commentary on our society, and some are just fun descriptions of a different place.

What makes this collection so special is the author's beautiful writing, and the trips you take to these other worlds.

Too Good to be Read in an Airport.......2003-11-02

This book starts off with a light-hearted introduction, but quickly plunges the reader into a maze of possibilities. It is a book to be read slowly, thinking about each plane as it is presented. The best part of the book is it's concluding story, which is something like a metaphor for Le Guin's life to this point, a blur of possibilities, imaginings, and outcomes. This book is highly recommended for Le Guin fans or as an introduction to her work.

Gulliver's New Travels.......2003-09-25

Waiting in airports can be interminable tedium, OR, a passage to other planes of existence, fascinating new worlds. In fact there is a whole world of such worlds, linked by a loose-knit Interplanary Agency, with Interplanary Hotels for travelers, and Rornan's Handy Planary Guide for guidance. Such is the premise for this collection of fantastic allegorical stories.

Strange stories they are, too, stories of people just a little different from ourselves, people whose foibles and fallacies are just a little different from our own. Stories of people wracked by pointless ethnic conflicts that go on for centuries; people who have ruined their worlds and destroyed their ecologies; worlds in which ancient cultures and traditions are fading away. There is a quality of wistful longing in these stories, longing for a simpler, saner world that has been lost or ruined. LeGuin's beautiful writing is complemented by the inventive, Escher-like drawings of Eric Beddows.

Author Ursula K. LeGuin is a master story-teller. These stories are easy to read, compelling, humorous, engaging, and hard to forget. They will get you to thinking and they will haunt you. I recommend this book highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber

Good But Not Outstanding.......2003-09-13

This is a collection of sketches based on the clever conceit that bored airplane travelers can move from tedious airports to parallel worlds (planes). Each of the stories is a sketch of some key feature of the plane being visited. Several of the stories have a bit of an allegorical flavor, some are mildly satirical, and others feature interesting psychological issues. LeGuin is an extremely talented writer and several of these stories are very enjoyable and all are worth reading. None of these stories, however, comes close to LeGuin's best work. For readers familiar with LeGuin, this is something of a disappointment. Readers new to LeGuin who find this book enjoyable should pursue the LeGuin's older collections of stories, particularly those written 20 to 30 years, such as Orsinian Tales or the Compass Rose.

Good for waiting.......2003-09-09

Ursula K. Le Guin's Changing Planes was somewhat of a homecoming for me, as I've read little speculative fiction lately. I have always enjoyed her style, and this book was no exception.

On the darker side, the introduction bills this as a good airport book (changing planes -- get it?), and its construction as a travelogue, combined with the relatively light-weight stories, bear that out.

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Changing Planes (SIGNED)
Ursula K. LeGuin
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Changing planes.(LABJ forum)(executives talk about regional airports): An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
Gale Reference Team
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Title: Changing planes.(LABJ forum)(executives talk about regional airports)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Los Angeles Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 12, 2007
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Ursula K. Le Guin. Changing Planes.(Book Review): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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David Seed
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Title: Ursula K. Le Guin. Changing Planes.(Book Review)
Author: David Seed
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 24 Issue: 2 Page: 132(2)

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Changing of the guard information guide for-- : the Georgia Air National Guard's proposed conversion from the F-15 fighter mission to the B-1B bomber mission (SuDoc D 12.10:G 29)

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Changing of the guard information guide for-- : the Georgia Air National Guard's proposed conversion from the F-15 fighter mission to the B-1B bomber mission (SuDoc D 12.10:G 29)
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Orbiting serenely above a long-ago poisoned earth, the last bastion of human civilization is the space colonies. After a terrorist attack, the colonists are forced into exile on the blighted planet below. In the confusion, a young mother is separated from her family and is flung into a bleak, uncertain future . . . But Sarah will not rest until she finds her children. Katsuhiro Otomo has explored the dark side of the psyche with Domu and the corruption that comes with absolute power in Akira. Now Otomo has set his sights on the enduring power of hope. Welcome to The Legend of Mother Sarah. This volume collects all eight issues this compelling series, one of the finest ever produced.

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Wanted to be better.......2004-05-31

It's a post-apocalyptic story, with a different political party on each side of the apocalypse. The earth is all but destroyed. The reclamation requires further devastation, in the short term, and that's where the story takes place.

It just does't come across as strongly as it should have. The good guys are poor but honest farmers. The bad guys' downfall is their greed for gold. Sarah's transport from one episode to the next is the comic sidekick, just a little too eager for the next dollar. Good stories can be made from such ordinary pieces, but it takes a little more skill than I saw here.

The line drawing is competent. In fact, the scenery stole the show in most of the underground panels. There appears to be some ink-wash drawing in the first few pages. Sad to say, the coarse half-tone screen lost all of the subtlety that the artist put in originally.

"Mother Sarah" is readable, even enjoyable, just not memorable.

An excellent story of tragedey and the power of hope........1999-01-27

A truly excellent book with a gripping story and sweeping images. I found myselfe becoming attached quite deeply to all of the characters. Ultimatly a superb read , I highly reccomend it to any anemei fan

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This book is a new and original voice in Christian spirituality. A valuable and practical resource for both clergy and laity, a balance vision of the renewal of public life and how the church can contribute to it.

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Public education for democratic renewal.......2001-03-24

In The Company of Strangers, a strikingly relevant book even after nearly twenty years, noted educator Parker J. Palmer describes public experience as our "life among strangers with whom our lot is cast, with whom we are interdependent whether we like it or not." And the educational process is one "which brings us out of ourselves into an awareness of our connectedness." At its core, public education recognizes the fundamental dignity of a "relationship rooted in our common humanity." Public education then, unlike private forms, will consciously underscore the shared primary elements of social experience without giving preferential treatment to limited secondary characteristics based on wealth, economic status, race, religion or ideology.

"In this process," Palmer continues, "opinions become audible and accountable and individuals learn that private viewpoints have implications for the common good. Under the pressure of accountability religious discourse may be forced to reach for the essentials which unite us." In contrast to withdrawal from public participation into private enclaves of conspicuous consumption or of opting to participate only as a convinced crusader invincibly armored to fend of responsible dialogue, Palmer notes that "public life becomes the spiritual guide of our private life." Truth, he continues, "is a very large matter, and requires various angles of vision to be seen in the round." Such an assessment of public experience is, in my view, what makes American education a "very large matter," requiring each of us to renew the commitment to public education. In this way we may be drawn out of ourselves to the point where our angle of vision allows us to see and to respect the common ground we share with others.

Palmer makes public life appealing again........1998-02-19

Palmer depicts public life as pre-political -- a life of festivity
including block parties and theatre. He makes the point that without
public spaces in which strangers can learn to become comfortable
with each other, able to trust each other, a political life is an
impossibility. He makes a case for the significance of the stranger
in Christian and Jewish scriptures. He suggests that the mystery
of God is experienced in the mystery of the stranger, and that
living our religious beliefs in response to the stranger is a way
of encountering the mystery of God. He also sees churches and
synagogues as training grounds for developing the skills necessary
for public life. This is an inspiring book.

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