olorc wrote:I only read Ender's Game and started on the Speaker of the dead and kinda got bored... maybe it's just me but all the stuff about Ender's Game that got me addicted like crazy just went away. I like Ender's game for the strategy and coolness of kids training in an elite place for outspace combat with aliens. Also the cool plot lines with the brother and sister too. Then with Speaker for the Dead (or is it of the Dead, oh i don't know) that all went away and I was left with sorta boring stuff. Anyone care to reasure me that the series picks up or does it continue in the fashion of Speaker of the Dead?
juvey wrote:Ah, Orson Scott Card. One of my favorite and least favorite authors at the same time.
juvey wrote:Cap'n Crack, I agree with you. I was very surprised to learn Card was a Mormon, considering the basic storyline of the whole Speaker for the Dead, etc. series. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that [spoiler]he basically ended with the 'truth' being reincarnation? That the philotes, or whatever they were in the other universe waiting to be 'born' into this one just keep going back and getting recycled, and such? That with all of the examples you gave puts a... I don't know, but the books seemed, as you said, defeatist, and also just depressing, in a way.[/spoiler]
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