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[color=pink]Ok, I'm going to assume that half of you can read.

I'm also going to assume that half of you who can, do.

So I'm hoping at least one other intelligent person has read this book.

I really liked this book. The simple way it is written reminds me of Eric Nyland's style a bit, and the stories are similar too. Child prodigy, taken at a young age, given the responsibility of saving humanity. Really interesting end, the plot twist was kind of touching. One to Ten I give it a 9.[/color]

  • 06.04.2004 7:26 PM PDT
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The real question though is, does it have as much violence and action as the Halo novels?

  • 06.04.2004 7:29 PM PDT
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Check one off under ''Hasn't read the book, and posts inane comment.''

  • 06.04.2004 7:30 PM PDT

I hate everything, but it's not my fault.

Yes it's a good book, but the ending sucked. Everything up to the last chapter or two was good.

  • 06.04.2004 7:36 PM PDT
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The Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow series are both real great reads.

Bean > Ender

  • 06.04.2004 7:39 PM PDT
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You aren't comparing the greatness that is Card with the average stuff by an author who writes a book whose story is already told by Bungie's game, are you? The games and their storyline are awesome, but I think you've gotta be a total religious fanatic to worship the Halo books so. I read the first two Halo books and their coolness is significant, but it's not even close to Card's characterization! The Halo books tell a dramatic story in a fantastic yet realistic world masterfully crafted by Bungie, but the characterization falls short of great. Ender's Game did the same but in a world of the author's creation and with proper characters. Card puts the reader in the head of his characters so completely that they can empathize with all sides. There's just no blamn comparison there!

  • 06.04.2004 10:20 PM PDT

bah

Ender kicks the crap out of Bean any day. Ender is the charizmatic leader, Bean is just the smart kid (among smart kids).

Have you read the rest of the series? Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are all great books too, although they get into some weird theories so some might not like them as much.

There are amny paralleles between Ender's Game and Halo. The boy soldier, the super intelligent being (Jane in the latter books), the race trying to destroy humanity. I would recommend to anyone here who has read the Halo books to read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It is truley impressive although many people won't know what to make of the latter books.

  • 06.04.2004 10:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Rip Saw

Have you read the rest of the series? Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are all great books too, although they get into some weird theories so some might not like them as much.


Yes. Have you read Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, and Shadow Puppets? If you haven't read those, you don't know much about Bean. Calling him "smart" is an understatement.


[Edited on 6/4/2004 10:59:27 PM]

  • 06.04.2004 10:59 PM PDT
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I'm trying to get my mitts on Shadow Puppets. I've read the Ender stuff to Xenocide/Children of the Mind and I've read the Bean stuff to Hegemon, though most of it was a few years ago. Once I've got all the books in both series, I'll reread 'em all without big time gaps in between. The buggers, little friends, Jane, and the subdivisions of the characters who rode Jane's Naglfar dealy were all new when Card wrote about them- or, at least, I haven't yet found earlier uses of the ideas. All of them have been ripped off by other writers since then, though. It would be interesting to see different strands of me projecting separately from the shadows into this life, with multiple simultaneous interfaces... We wouldn't seem so stranded, lol.

  • 06.05.2004 4:48 AM PDT

Forumrunner: This will help you look smart next time you have to type up an essay of some kind. When you are typing the title of a novel (as opposed to hand writing it), you italicise the title, not underlining. Italics is the direct typed equivalent of hand written underlining, so anything you usually underline, you should italicise.

Why they have an underlining option in word-processors is so that you can give stuff an added emphasis, but should never be used when referring to a text, or in something that will be published in some form. Just so you know in future. It also looks better. :)

- Reiginko

  • 06.05.2004 7:59 AM PDT
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I've read all the books, and they are some of the best I have read. But, what happens after Children of the Mind? It's been digging at the back of my mind since I read it.

  • 06.05.2004 8:35 AM PDT
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I read Ender's Game a while ago. I also read Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, and Shadow Puppets. I tried Xenocide, but it didn't catch my interest and I never read any books from that vein of the series. My personal favorite was Hegemon - ground combat is so much more interesting, and so is the character of Achilles. Peter was my favorite character, though.

If you're tired of reading about fragile little genius kids, you might try my other favorite, Neuromancer. Absolutely perfect - and remember that it is the founder of cyberpunk genre. You'll see many things that the Matrix blatantly ripped off and other things that Deus Ex included as a kind of tribute.

[Edited on 6/5/2004 10:44:39 AM]

  • 06.05.2004 10:42 AM PDT