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[usernamenumber]

I finished Ender's Game recently and started thinking about how Card's vision of a networked society could map onto the way things actually turned out. Sure enough: demosthenes locke. *snerk*.

Sadly, their existance is the most amusing thing about them (unless you know the owners, I guess). They're just ordinary journals. So much potential wasted.

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[ryca.livejournal.com]

I read Ender's Game to my class and they were mesmerized. One of my favorite books of all time.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

I've just started Ender's Shadow, which is the events of Ender's Game told from Bean's point of view. So far it's very good (but I'm only a chapter in).

[ryca.livejournal.com]

I loved that one so much, too. I've read all of the books written in that world (except the newest one). All great, in different ways.

[rhosyn-du.livejournal.com]

I was really disappointed in the Shadow books. Disappointed and infuriated, actually. But I'll wait until you're done with them to explain why, exactly, so I don't color your reading.

[jodisays.livejournal.com]

i have to say i like game and the first shadow best. as the kids get older, card has a harder time writing them in a way that i consider realistic.

[predundant.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Ender's Game goodness.

I thought Ender's Shadow was alright, though I was disappointed in the transition from Bugger to Formic. It seemed like a hackneyed politically correct change that wasn't motivated by the storyline. It takes place at the same time as Ender's Game and involves many of the same events, so why have two different vocabularies? That just never sat right with me.


Anyhow, I read Speaker For the Dead last year and absolutely loved it. Totally different feel from Ender's Game but still with that same Card charm and depth of character. Hooray for Archeological sci-fi.

[rhosyn-du.livejournal.com]

Speaker for the Dead is one of my favorite books ever. :)