ender's game

POSTED BY: est120
UPDATED: Thursday, October 21, 2004 04:34
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FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:47 PM

Nothing I can really say that hasn't been, cep't to add my 2 cents.

Enders Game is supreme, yes.

The sequels are acceptable, but definately second rate.

Treason wasn't half bad neither.

But of his work, Enders Game is definately the crown jewel.

-F

SIGMANUNKI

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:04 PM

It seems we have a consensus (one I will add to) that Ender's Game is an excellent book. I found Ender's Shadow to be almost as good and very interesting as it was interesting to see the story from a different angle.

The only other one I've read so far is Shadow of the Hegemon. Which I found OK, nothing special, especially compared to the other two.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

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STARPILOTGRAINGER

Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:06 AM

My sig quote is of course from Ender's Game, so one would expect I'm a big fan of it.

As to the sequels? My opinion is:
Speaker for the Dead: Quite good, but not as good.
Xenocide/Children of the Mind, okay, but not really needed and has a bit too many things that I wasn't satisfied with.

Ender's Shadow: Very good, probably the closest to Ender's Game in quality. Still not as good, but nearly there, and I like reading them both regularly as, really, they're two different views on the same events (am annoyed at a couple of the things they changed).

Shadow of the Hegemon/Shadow Puppets: Still pretty cool, I rank them maybe a little worse than Speaker for the Dead. Still, I'm reading the series and will continue when the next one comes out.

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THRAWN

Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:17 AM

I liked Ender's Shadow almost as much as Ender's Game, and found the rest to be more or less intolerable.

I would reccomend reading that and Speaker For The Dead, though...Ender's Game is sort of the source, and then each of those books I view as starting its own spinoff storyline. If you don't enjoy either, all of the sequels to that particular storyline aren't going to be good either.

ANOTHERFIREFLYFAN

Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:31 AM

Children of the Mind is really just one long conclusion to Xenocide. It's really *part* of that story.

I recommend the series, but agree. Things get much more complicated later on. There were parts of Xenocide (the Chinese girl side-story anyone?) that outright bored me and were a drag to read through.

~AFf

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DESANGRO

Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:46 AM

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Originally posted by AnotherFireflyfan:
There were parts of Xenocide (the Chinese girl side-story anyone?) that outright bored me and were a drag to read through.

~AFf

Keep flying

See, I thought that that subplot was really cool... but that's just me.

Wang-mu was neat.

DINGOACTION

Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:08 AM

I adored Ender's Game, and thought Ender's Shadow was fun to read--the whole alternate POV idea hooked me; I've always wanted to read a book like that. I haven't gotten around to the others yet, they seemed a bit more political than I usually like.

I did enjoy Card's writing enough to pick up Enchantment, though, which I throughly enjoyed. Has anyone read Pastwatch? Opinions?

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ANOTHERFIREFLYFAN

Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:34 AM

The sub-plot improved, it was fun when it finally joined the story. But it was a lot of work reading through all of it just to lead up to that. Kinda disturbed the pace. *shrug*

But I loved the series, and eventually plan to read more of Card's books.

Keep flying

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