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GLP Book Club: Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 300884:MV8yMjgwMTE5XzM4ODExOTI4X0U3Q0E1QTNF] [quote:Anonymous Coward 21666560:MV8yMjgwMTE5XzM4Nzk1OTA0XzkyMEUxQUQ0] [quote:CharlieMurphy:MV8yMjgwMTE5XzM4Nzk1MTM2XzU5M0U3OTgz] [quote:Anonymous Coward 300884:MV8yMjgwMTE5XzM4Nzk1MDk5XzMyQUNFNkFG] Great book. One of my favorites. The rest of the series should be avoided though. [/quote] Noted, thanks for the heads up. [/quote] don't listen to this guy. the first book is great, an easier to handle, but the other 7 books are excellent as well. the remaining 3 in the first set are about ender's life while out in space/visiting other planets the other series of 4 is about the remainder of Ender's crew back on Earth after he's left the planet. all of the different characters end up in positions of political power across the different nations of the planet. great reading... [/quote] To clarify why I think the series is much worse than the first book: The first book is about mankind facing an existential threat in the form of an enemy that is almost impossible to fight. The only way for the human race to survive is to compromise on moral principles and do some pretty nasty things, like abusing children, raising them to know nothing but war. This combination of mortal threat and moral dilemma gives the first book a very tangible [i]tension[/i]. The rest of the books are instead about how Ender finds out that humans and aliens can all be friends. This may be "enlightened" and all, but it gives no where near the gut-wrenching [i]tension [/i]of the first book. They're all well written enough, but I think the first is a far superior reading experience. [/quote]
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Tomorrow afternoon we discuss once I am done with work. I picked this book off my shelf today after not having read it for at least 15 years. I plowed through it and am almost done, but am a little too drunk to discuss it now. I will wait for tomorrow.
Until then feel free to discuss without me.
The number one thing that strikes me is the day to day technology they use. Card was a fucking visionary, the things that don't even exist today, you can see technology leading to.
The other thing that strikes me is the manipulation his siblings use of "the net" (what we would consider forums today). He wrote the book in 1977, how the fuck did he know about the internet?
Anyways, I will get more into this thread tomorrow, headed to bed now. Going to finish the book and work tomorrow, be back after.
God damn the book was practically falling apart. Old, paperback, turning colors and falling apart.
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