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GLP Book Club: Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 38706893:MV8yMjgwMTE5XzM4ODE3NDU0XzhDOEU0QzVE] [quote:AlkaliDesert:MV8yMjgwMTE5XzM4ODE1MzU5XzVENzlFRUVF] [quote:Anonymous Coward 6203940:MV8yMjgwMTE5XzM4ODEyMDY1X0UwNzM3N0U2] I love this book. I have not found any other book that truly understands what its like growing up as a gay boy! Card I love you! [/quote] Card is no great friend to gay people. Which is odd, since he writes some of the most sympathetic gay characters I've every read in some of his earlier books. Stick to his earlier books, don't read too much about him, and avoid disillusionment. [/quote] Haven't read that book for years, but aren't the bad guys called "buggers"? And we all know what the definition of that is, don't we? [/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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