The Left Hand of Darkness

As with all the books written long ago that I have read this book was horrible. First of all, it was incredibly boring. I could not finish it. I got halfway through which I think gives me the right to have an opinion. 

The stream-of-consciousness way of writing was horribly boring as well as hard to read. The whole reason I wanted to read this book is because it supposedly was very progressive and totally groundbreaking about gender, which I found to be absurd. How could anyone have ever said that about this book.  It isn't talked about much and never really goes anywhere apart from both sides of the coin talking about how weird and disgusting the other is. If anything the gender roles are even more pronounced in this book than usual. The main character comments on the seeming femininity or feminine characteristics of various people he meets, almost always in a condescending or insulting way.  

The whole political part of this was also terribly boring. In general, I wanted to fall asleep and could not get through this whatsoever. I think I will just stop reading classic for a while because it never ends well for me.