This was about the dumbest thing I've recently wasted time on. I can't believe I kept going, but I was listening and doing other things, so that is my only consolation. I even said out loud several times--this is just dumb.

There were a few good characters and I guess I kept hoping something better would happen. It felt like it was written as an assignment in high school. Don't waste your time.

Ok, this was as close to taking drugs as I have ever come to. Yeah . . . it was psychodelic.

Orson does his magic again by taking you into the lives of several black teenagers in a small cultisac that has some interesting secrets.

Have you ever run into the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth, she tries to tempt you, but you somehow unbelieveably have the power to resist her temptation. This is what happens to the main character in this book and he not only resists her, but slowly peels back all of the layers of magic surrounding the woman and the world in which she came from.

Shakespeare on Heroine. Amazing.

I give it 5/5 because it always keeps you on the edge of your seat reading more and more to finally realize that what you are readiing, takes you back to the beginning of where it all started.

Cheers!

This is a VERY wierd book!

Novela de Scott Card y eso siempre es buena señal. Es de las flojas, no obstante tiene un tratamiento muy interesante de personajes y tramas. 3,75

I had no idea what to expect from this book. I hadn't read anything about it, but I saw it was from Card and so I listened to it on our way to and from California. I didn't even read the jacket cover since it was an audio book I downloaded. I won't say too much other than I really enjoyed it. I think saying too much other than that would ruin it for anyone.

Quite strange. Didn’t care for it.

Every once in a while, an author whom you know has talent is bound to fail you. Card was my favorite author as a teen and I devoured nearly all of his (many) works. Chances are, if you are even reading this, you've already read Ender's Game and/or others of the Ender series. Stick with them.

A lot of press has been devoted to saying how brave, insightful, or groundbreaking Card was to use a black character as his main protagonist. Unfortunately, this statement seems to say a lot more about our culture, or at least the sci-fi/fantasy genre than it does about Card. Unlike others of Card's protagonists who drive the story forward with their strength (Ender, Bean, Petra), Mack is just plain off. I don't need to be black to know that Mack is not a realistic character. This is because Mack is not a realistic character as any young adult in any culture. All of the other characters in the book have the distinction of being completely unbelievable too, which pretty much makes the book unreadable past a certain point.

Gran inicio me agrado mucho la forma en la que mezcla la magia, sueños y tintes religiosos aunque decayó un poco a la mitad el final fue muy acertado.

Orson Scott Card is such a great writer that even his mediocre books are very, very good. This book cannot begin to compare to Card's books about Alvin Maker or Ender Wiggin - partially because this book is a stand-alone story, not the beginning of an epic series.

But as a stand-alone story, Magic Street is an epic. This one story spans a length of years and brings together a cast of characters large enough to feel like an epic. And the evil which must be fought to save the world is unimaginably powerful and transcendent (and yet believable) enough to be an epic. But at 400-something pages, this is the shortest epic you'll ever read.

I won't bother discussing the story, because even the basic premise of the book comes as a surprise - just as Card said it was for him half-way through writing it. Plus, as with most fantasy stories, trying to explain the premise in a nutshell usually makes the story sound childish, which this book is certainly not.

Put simply this book is more than meets the eye. It may not be Card's best, but it is worth your time.

Interesante libro de fantasía pero que es algo flojo y se me hizo lento... El capítulo final sí me gustó y la historia general es interesante pero no he logrado conectar con los personajes. Por ahora el libro del autor que menos me ha gustado.

I hadn’t read Orson Scott Card in years, and had forgotten that he’s one of the few writers (along with Bradbury and Gaiman) that can make magic seem present and tangible in the real world. This is a fun, interesting and thoughtful mashup of modern day LA and Shakespeare, and it mostly works.

Promising beginning, uneven middle, and a sappy ending. There are things to enjoy here though.

Props to Card for writing a novel with all black characters (there isn't a single white person). The reader is excellent.