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Rodent King
Stabbed in the Eye
posted 07-04-2002 12:40:36 AM
Who's read it? Who likes it? Who has anything to say about it?

(Let's keep it spoiler free for the peeps who haven't read it yet.)

Oh, and Drys; can you make an icon for books? That'd help.

My inner child is bigger than my outer adult.
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Naota Nandaba
Don't ask me about any goddamned bannings!
posted 07-04-2002 12:41:54 AM
I really really liked that book.
Nothing amazing happens here.
Only the ordinary.
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Rodent King
Stabbed in the Eye
posted 07-04-2002 01:11:33 AM
Wow, I liked that book; lots of BUMPing during the better parts.
My inner child is bigger than my outer adult.
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Alek
Not The Rapist
posted 07-04-2002 01:13:39 AM
It's a good book, quite intesting if not unrealistic. I think the author could have done a better job had he modified a few points in the book. For example the age of the kids at the Battle School, I think it's a bit too premature to be teaching combat tactics and strategy. However, all in all, the book is a great story.
"Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will bring you honour. She will be your crowning glory."
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Delphi Aegis
Pancake
posted 07-04-2002 01:14:19 AM
A well written book.. Looking back on it, it was more of an "OMG I R ANGSTY" teenager book..

Read it as an angsty teen, then read it again when yer older, and you'll see why.

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Rodent King
Stabbed in the Eye
posted 07-04-2002 01:15:56 AM
Anyone read the other books? Ender's Shadow, or Shadow of the Hegemon?
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Alek
Not The Rapist
posted 07-04-2002 01:16:17 AM
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Delphi Aegis thought about the meaning of life:
A well written book.. Looking back on it, it was more of an "OMG I R ANGSTY" teenager book..

Read it as an angsty teen, then read it again when yer older, and you'll see why.

I could not have said it better myself. I agree wholeheartedly. Did I mispell the last word of the second sentence?

"Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will bring you honour. She will be your crowning glory."
-Proverbs 4:8-9
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Alek
Not The Rapist
posted 07-04-2002 01:17:10 AM
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From the book of Rodent King, chapter 3, verse 16:
Anyone read the other books? Ender's Shadow, or Shadow of the Hegemon?

I've read all of them except Shadow of the Hegemon... I had never heard of the aforementioned book.

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Elvish Crack Piper
Murder is justified so long as people believe in something different than you do
posted 07-04-2002 01:29:00 AM
I have read all the Enders books, 6 of em, very well written. If you havent read them thenread them.
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Chalesm
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posted 07-04-2002 01:39:45 AM
I liked Ender's game quite a bit, though admittedly I haven't read it in a good 5 years. It mixed the surreal and the real very well. Orson Scott Card can be one heck of an author.
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Aury
My hair is a deadly weapon
posted 07-04-2002 01:41:02 AM
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Rodent King impressed everyone with:
Who's read it? Who likes it? Who has anything to say about it?

(Let's keep it spoiler free for the peeps who haven't read it yet.)

Oh, and Drys; can you make an icon for books? That'd help.

it's a lovely book.

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adenine!
Closet Republican
posted 07-04-2002 02:08:02 AM
I read Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and hated them both. :P
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Aaron (the good one)
posted 07-04-2002 02:09:57 AM
Inferno-Spirit has read it around 7 times
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Lyinar Ka`Bael
Are you looking at my pine tree again?
posted 07-04-2002 05:51:39 AM
Awesome book

I need to read the second one. Never finished it before I had to take it back to the library.

I haven't gotten to Shadow because I want to get through the others first and get the whole story.


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Vorago
A completely different kind of Buckethead
posted 07-04-2002 09:23:37 AM
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Check out the big brain on Delidgamond!
Inferno-Spirit has read it around 7 times

I've read it at least 7, he's probabaly read it around 30 times

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Peter
Pancake
posted 07-04-2002 09:59:55 AM
Crap I read Ender's Game like when I was in 5th grade. I like the book alot. The books that follwed were really odd though, Speaker of the dead Xenocide, were quite difrent from the first one, I have yet to read the newer books.

I belive they were or are filming A movie with Card sitting in on it.

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Naota Nandaba
Don't ask me about any goddamned bannings!
posted 07-04-2002 12:24:47 PM
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Elvish Crack Piper painfully thought these words up:
I have read all the Enders books, 6 of em, very well written.
Nothing amazing happens here.
Only the ordinary.
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Inferno-Spirit
Sports Advocate
posted 07-04-2002 12:30:26 PM
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Delidgamond had this to say about Knight Rider:
Inferno-Spirit has read it around 7 times

Probably about 5 times. And I've read Speaker, Xenocide, and Children a few times each. Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon as well.

All great books, although Speaker through Children are a different style of book than Ender's Game.

The very best book, though, was Ender's Game the first time through.

"He lets the last Hungarian go, and he goes running. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they grew up in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone. Underground. No one has ever seen him again. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. 'If you rat on your pop, Keyser Soze will get you.' And nobody really ever believes." - Roger 'Verbal' Kint, The Usual Suspects
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Blue Angel
Pancake
posted 07-04-2002 12:32:25 PM
I had to read it this year for sci-fi english, I really liked it, though I didnt like what they did to Ender, but I might read the others, though thats not really my genre of books. Still a kick ass book.
Surrounded by familiar faces with no name
None of them know me
Or want to share my pain
They only wish to bask in my light
Then fade away
To win my love, to them a game
To watch me live my life in vain
When all is done and the glitter fades, fades away
They'll get theirs eventually
And I hope I'm there
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Burger
BANNED!
posted 07-04-2002 04:10:26 PM
good set of books, but it's funny, card originally had the concept of speaker, and then he needed to establish Ender's past for the reader, and he got so engrossed in his past that it became a novel all of it's own.

I like ender's game best, and then ender's shadow second best.

Rawr, and for more card fun, try reading "a thousand deaths" which is a short story he wrote.

Bite me.

No, Really. Bite me.

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Lyinar Ka`Bael
Are you looking at my pine tree again?
posted 07-06-2002 08:43:51 PM
If you want to try the same author, different genre, try Enchantment.

A retelling of Sleeping Beauty.

Pastwatch is another extremely interesting Card novel, although it's more sci-fi than anything. Deals with time travel.

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