Enders Game

[Harbringer]

I have recently read this book and I have to say it was definately much more than I expected. One look at the cover almost made me shy away but after hearing such great things I just coudlnt resist checking it out. Needless to say it was absolutely incredible and I plan on picking up the multiple sequals someday......so if read what ddi you all think of it?

 

[El_Machinae]

I haven't enjoyed a single sequel that I made partway through, to be honest.

But Ender's Game really is foundational Sci-Fi, imo

 

[CaptainF]

I read Ender's Game and loved it.

If you do like those books I really recommend you check out the Ender's Shadow series, which focuses on the young mutant prodigy Bean.

 

[Endim_Analys]

Be careful with the sequels in the ender-suite, speaker for the dead, xenocide and children of the mind. They are great but of a very different kind. Some people I know who really loved Ender's game read the sequels and got their image of ender destroyed because of it. But if you don't really LOVE the book, go ahead.

 

[Quiet Sound]

I seem to be about the only person that didn't like the book. Nothing specific about it, I just didn't really care for it. I don't regret having read it once though.

 

[warpus]

Be careful with the sequels in the ender-suite, speaker for the dead, xenocide and children of the mind. They are great but of a very different kind. Some people I know who really loved Ender's game read the sequels and got their image of ender destroyed because of it. But if you don't really LOVE the book, go ahead.

I loved Ender's Game.

I loved the 3 sequels even more.

But see, the thing is that you have to look at Ender's Game as a separate story and enjoy it as such.

The 3 sequels lie on a totally different plane than the original; they have to be enjoyed in a different way.

 

[eddfire3]

Yea, I loved Ender's Game, it is one of the few books I have read multiple times. The sequels are also very good, but like Warpus has said, are very different. I myself am still reading Xenocide, and I would have to say that both it and Speaker for the Dead are much more philosophical, and deal with moral and ethical issues a bit more than Ender's Game. I think this just shows off Card's writing abilities even more; how he is able to write in two very different styles about the same character.

 

[MobBoss]

I liked Enders Shadow as much as, if not more than, Enders Game.

 

[Red Door]

I read Engers Game and really enjoyed it.

 

[El_Machinae]

Oop, I never read any sequels with Bean as the main character. So my distaste for the sequels doesn't include those.

 

[CaptainF]

I liked Enders Shadow as much as, if not more than, Enders Game.

Indeed. Achilles De Flandres is a helluva villain.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I read Game and Shadows; I was hoping to read the rest in chronological order but the library is missing the book that comes next (despite having 3 copies of the one after that!).

Anyways, I really liked Game but I thought Shadow was even better.

 

[woody60707]

Indeed. Achilles De Flandres is a helluva villain.

They are all great books. but as everyone said, the tone really changes.

Like in Speaker for the dead, it seemed Card was somewhat anti-religious, but by children of the mind, it seemed to be a 180.

 

[warpus]

They are all great books. but as everyone said, the tone really changes.

Like in Speaker for the dead, it seemed Card was somewhat anti-religious, but by children of the mind, it seemed to be a 180.

I wouldn't say he was anti-religious; that doesn't really make sense, as he is a devout Mormon.

I think he was just being critical of certain aspects of organized religion.

 

[woody60707]

I wouldn't say he was anti-religious; that doesn't really make sense, as he is a devout Mormon.

I think he was just being critical of certain aspects of organized religion.

you're right, anti-religious was bad wording on my part. "critical of certain aspects of organized religion" is a better way to put it.

 

[LightFang]

Ender's Game is really excellent. Its sequels, as people have pointed out, are really different but worth it.

woody brought up a point I was about to. It really did seem like he was critical of religion in general, but I realized that he was just being, as warpus has nicely said for me, "critical of certain aspects of organized religion."

 

[Kraznaya]

I loved the Game but I think Shadows really wasn't up to par. None of the characters in Shadows fit their original archetypes in the Game (Bean, Alai, Petra, and especially Peter all had their personalities radically changed).

 

[Julian Delphiki]

If you do like those books I really recommend you check out the Ender's Shadow series, which focuses on the young mutant prodigy Bean.

QFT.

I loved the Game but I think Shadows really wasn't up to par. None of the characters in Shadows fit their original archetypes in the Game (Bean, Alai, Petra, and especially Peter all had their personalities radically changed).

Hey, people grow up and change!

 

[Julian Delphiki]

Double post, edited.

Spoiler -- the thing that really bothered me with Shadow series.

Spoiler :

How the hell could Bean not realize someone could be after his kids? I guess O.S.C did it for plot, but still..

 

[Narz]

I started reading it this summer and was enjoying it immesely.

But then I left it back East when I visited and have to wait until Thanksgiving to finish (well, I suppose I could rent it from the 'brary but I have a bookmark in the book back home ).