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Ender's Game
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Have you read it? I don't normally read SciFi other than the classics (H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, etc.), but I thought that this was really good.
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Eh it's a bit over hyped. I also think OSC has diminished it somewhat by milking it for 25 years.
To say nothing of the fact that OSC has gone completely off the deep end and is insane. |
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Fair enough...this is a valid criticism.
I do question your logic here though. If you were to filter your appreciation of the arts by the mental state of the artist, you would miss out on some of the greatest works known to humankind...Poe, Van Gogh, Beethoven, Whitman...the list goes on. "The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact" -William Shakespeare |
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Edited by Soulsphere on 11/15/11 10:24 AM (PST)
This whole series is pretty great, Ender's Game is a little juvenile, still a good read but it get's much deeper as the series goes on. As Ender grows up and the focus shifts to moral dilemmas the targeted audience seems to grow with the character.
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I have heard amazing things, but Orson Scott Card's political beliefs taint the book for me, so I am afraid to read it lest I try to find reason to fault him for it, and I hated biased reading.
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I enjoyed Enders. If i had to give it a score out of 5, I'd give it a 3.5. Parts of the book where great, You really felt that ender was alone in the battle games, yet Ender's brother and sister just didn't make sense to me. If the brother was too cruel ( which to me seems like what you want if you are fighting a war for all the dice.) and the sister too nice, then how was Ender the perfect balance? He was just a cruel as his brother, but it just took alot of goating.
The part where Ender is in Greensboro also struck me as a odd seeing as the military pretty much should have just said, "Well now we need a forth" going by their logic of scrapping his siblings. However Speaker imo wasn't that good. It didn't feel the same to me, I can't really say why, but it felt more like a chore to finish. And I only liked the computer earring who for the life of me the name alludes me. |
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According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the Ender's Game movie will be released in 2013. Some fans have already created their own trailers for it. I like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzuW9j7fXgk This Lego movie is pretty cool too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBrZcgmKXQI |
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According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the Ender's Game movie will be released in 2013. Some fans have already created their own trailers for it. I like this one: I wouldn't get your hopes up. While it's possible, they've been talking about making an Ender movie for a solid 20 years. And as for looking at the book objectively and not including OSC's insanity...yeah I can understand that and I understand that's how it would work in an ideal world. But it's hard. |
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Songmaster, Hart's Hope, Ender's Game, and Wyrms are the four books I've read by Orson Scott Card that I thought were worth the time. The rest of the Ender's Saga just got progressively more obnoxious, and Ender in Exile was just insulting.
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Casting Ender would be very difficult. Finding 6-8 year old kid with the capacity to pull of his character seems unlikely.
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Edited by Varqov on 11/30/11 1:39 PM (PST)
I enjoyed Speaker for the Dead the most out of all of the ender series. By the end of the series, around 50 pages before Xenocide was over, I felt that OSC took a bit too many liberties with things. Also, in almost first place was Ender's Shadow, it totally throws the world OSC creates around Ender upside down. I love the whole Shadow story, very interesting stuff.
Just found my copies of the books recently, Might have to read them again, especially Enders Shadow, Speaker, and Xenocide. As for the movie, I am not sure about if that will happen... in the mean-time check out the comics that were done by Marvel, good stuff. |
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I enjoyed it. Its a deep book that reflects on humanity and in a way spirituality. The spirituality part is the part people might get disconnected with and just say he's insane.
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Any of the Homebound series? |
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Edited by Verelyse on 12/11/11 6:37 AM (PST)
Songmaster, Hart's Hope, Ender's Game, and Wyrms are the four books I've read by Orson Scott Card that I thought were worth the time. The rest of the Ender's Saga just got progressively more obnoxious, and Ender in Exile was just insulting. Interesting, somehow those completely slipped through my net. Need to check them out. I'd also add Seventh Son from the Alvin the Maker series. I hated the second book and never finished the series, but Seventh Son was a really fascinating alternative universe story about the early United States. It's weird how OSC had such incredibly imaginative story premises early in his career, and then somewhere along the line he just completely lost all touch with reality. -.- |
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I learned in the 9th grade that people had to read it in the 10th grade so in order to get ahead, I tried reading some of it. Unfortunately I liked it so much that I couldn't put it down. I even got in trouble with my biology teacher for reading it more than I payed attention (although, granted I wouldn't have payed attention anyways because it was boring enough already). So I got through the book before the 10th grade, loved it, then I had to reread it. Unfortunately, it's a great book when reading it for the first time, not so much the second time though.
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Proud owner of ALL the books in this series! Altho n truth my favorite character in the whole series was Bean. Julian Delphiki as far as was conserned mad Ender look slow. But that was also in the later books n the Shadow series. Overall i have read this whole series more tmes than i can count and regardless of OSC's political view(for christ sake's he's a mormon) the books hold there own.
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