Orson Scott Card set a high bar with Ender’s Game and I emphatically say that he not only surpassed that bar, but left it far behind. Speaker for the Dead redefined for me what intricate plot and character depth are.I love this idea of a Speaker for the Dead, a person who will ask the hard questions...
NOTE : see this review and more on http://cocainepages.wordpress.com This was a perfect second book for a series! Everything develops, the characters grow into a much more complex pattern and it all comes to an universal feeling of harmony, with this work. Or at least that's how I felt it. Orson Sco...
This is a great series, can't believe I haven't picked it up before! Didn't live this as much as Ender's Game but its still a great book. Looking forward to the next instalment now!
We give up. I thought this book would be an expanded version of the last chapter of Ender's game -- a chapter that reads like a novel with the air sucked out. That chapter *ought* to have a novel version. Instead, I've got a clunky, didactic book that starts with a morally shaky premise: the idea th...
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
5 Star all-time favorite best book. I have no idea why this second reading of Speaker for the Dead was so moving. My previous rating of 3 Stars is now incomprehensible to me. I am not a very emotional person and I have seldom been moved to laughter, tears, heartache or sheer joy while reading but th...
Ender's Game is one of those rare sf classics that are placed in the top 5 of most "All-time best sf books", I have seen it occupy the pole position in a few such lists. Such accolade is not undeserved as Ender's Game is a great book, and one of the best military sf novels ever published, alas milit...
Definitely a well written sci-fi novel with some depth, though personally I find the idea that a person has no privacy to his or her spouse creepy, yet this is true in the WHOLE settled space and never get challenged in the story. Ender also comes up a bit like a Sue imho.
It has been 3 thousand years since the Xenocide and Ender is still alive thanks to his planet jumping. But on another planet an alien race has been found, the piggies. Humans have been trying to study them without interfering with their culture. But they are very different from us and that can lead ...
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