GLP Book Club: Enders Game by Orson Scott Card | |
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User ID: 19616035 Belgium 07/02/2013 03:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yeah i hope they don't ruin the movie like they did with the golden compass, just because they didn't like the storyline. idiots don't get that's what make them good in the first place! |
CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 04:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh? I didn't know they were making a movie and while I was reading it wondered why no one had yet. You know the movie will be a let down. Anyone who has ever gone to see a movie that they already read the book for is dissapointed. Jurassic Park, awesome fucking movie when I saw it, then I read the book. Ten times better. The Hunt for Red October, great movie. Book ten times better. Clancy books have made great movies (with the exception of "The Sum of All Fears"), but they are nothing compared with the books. Fuck Yea! |
CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 04:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Getting back to Enders Game, I remembered some of the ending but not all. I forgot how great the ending was, I am almost intrigued to find and read the sequel, but I get a feeling it won't hold me as much as the original. He said he drew inspiration from Isaac Asimov. Fuck Yea! |
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User ID: 33400049 United States 07/02/2013 04:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great book. One of my favorites. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 300884 The rest of the series should be avoided though. I disagree. The book where Ender is 1000 years old and on the piggie planet was pretty good. It's not great like the first by any stretch, but still good. Kinda like Dune. The first book is amazing, the rest are good. |
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CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've read it about 7 times. Quoting: NewThor Each time was in one sitting. It's one of my favorite books of all time! Yea, if I hadn't put it down to check out things on here and YT I probably would have finished it all yesterday. It is long enough to tell it's story but short enough to make it an easy read to pass the time. Fuck Yea! |
CharlieMurphy
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 42702744 United Kingdom 07/02/2013 05:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. Quoting: CharlieMurphy 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. DARPA was doing the precursor of the Goreian "Interwebs", back in the late 60s, early 70s. Maybe Card had an "in", gnomesayin'? |
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CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 05:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. Quoting: CharlieMurphy 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. DARPA was doing the precursor of the Goreian "Interwebs", back in the late 60s, early 70s. Maybe Card had an "in", gnomesayin'? Hmmm, like Tom Clancy? Clancy was writing about the ECHELON program years ago. Also, you can reason that anything in his books is probably at least 5 years out of date. That is why none of this NSA stuff surprised me, I knew of this ability long before I ever discovered GLP. Fuck Yea! |
CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 05:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BTW, I have read the book, and found it excellent, after a hiatus of about 20 years from reading "SF." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42702744 I honestly don't read much SciFi, considering how much I love the subject and how many SciFi movies I watch. You know, I have Bradburry's The Martian Chronicles on my bookshelf and don't think I have ever read it a second time. It's short and might provide a good escape tomorrow. Fuck Yea! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 42702744 United Kingdom 07/02/2013 05:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BTW, I have read the book, and found it excellent, after a hiatus of about 20 years from reading "SF." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42702744 I honestly don't read much SciFi, considering how much I love the subject and how many SciFi movies I watch. You know, I have Bradburry's The Martian Chronicles on my bookshelf and don't think I have ever read it a second time. It's short and might provide a good escape tomorrow. Go for it Chas! Bradbury was one of the best, and you know that we are the Martians, anyway! |
CharlieMurphy
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CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 05:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OH SHIT! I hadn't gone looking for a trailer yet! Harrison Ford as Col. Graff? Looks fucking epic. Please don't fuck it up!!! As long as they stick tight to the actual story, it could be REALLY good. The actors are top notch in it. It is on the shorter side of novels, so there might be a chance... Fuck Yea! |
CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 05:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OH SHIT! I hadn't gone looking for a trailer yet! Harrison Ford as Col. Graff? Looks fucking epic. Please don't fuck it up!!! I'm sure Hollyweird will find a way to make it politically correct, LGBT-friendly and Zio-Communistic. It's interesting you mention "Communistic" with all the references to the Warsaw Pact in the book. It will be interesting to see how they handle that. Fuck Yea! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 21666560 United States 07/02/2013 05:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great book. One of my favorites. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 300884 The rest of the series should be avoided though. Noted, thanks for the heads up. 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... |
Bluebird
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CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 05:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looking on his wikipedia page now it says he is co-producing it. There is some hope. The above poster is probably right though. There is quite a bit of violence in it to come from a child. Even though the basic premise of the book is how these things helped to shape Ender into what he needed to be to win. One thing it probably won't go a lot into is some of the tactics and strategies he uses. Your average movie audience is to daft to appreciate them and would become bored. It is such an intricate part of the main character though, his ability to quickly ascertain a situation and develop tactics to deal with it. Fuck Yea! |
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CharlieMurphy
(OP) User ID: 21085501 United States 07/02/2013 05:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great book. One of my favorites. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 300884 The rest of the series should be avoided though. Noted, thanks for the heads up. 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... Hmmm, thanks for your opinion. Damn, I wish I still lived in my old town, they had a great used bookstore, could get great books for just a couple of bucks. Maybe I will take a trip out to barnes and noble soon and see if I can find the sequel there. Speaker for the Dead I think it is. Fuck Yea! |
CharlieMurphy
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