At 100 pages I have to DNF this book, which sucks because I was looking forward to this one due to its praise. While I found the androgynous race interesting and the role of genders, Le Guin's writing style is just not for me. I kept hoping for more fluidity to her structure and it never came. The book will make interesting observations and points, but in the most long winded way possible. Then there is the story and characters, and how the reader is just being thrust in to the middle of everything going on. I didn't find myself caring about a single character as things were happening. There's just no character buildup at the point I got to for me to really give a damn.

This is the first time I have DNF'd a book in a very long time, but when I started skipping pages to move things along I realized I stopped caring.