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GLP Book Club: Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
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Anonymous Coward |
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Great book. One of my favorites.
The rest of the series should be avoided though.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 300884 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... 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 tension. 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 tension of the first book. They're all well written enough, but I think the first is a far superior reading experience.
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