enders game:wow that was powerful, now i want to read the rest of the series...

xenoside: a hard book to get into, comes to a good conclusion, I found it hard to stand the description of the godspoken being forced or compailed to complete a retiual that seemed like ocd to me, then to find out it was ocd it was easier to finnish the book...

This series continued on a downward spiral. The more I read the more I disliked it. I couldn't finish the 3rd book.

Great series if you like sci fi. Would make a great movie.

best!

see my review of the first three books.

Whever you do, take these books in measured doses and don't read them all at once. Enders game is good, but they get very long and drawn out after that. Children of the mind was fascinating, to see a society built around reverence for OCD. I wasn't all that enthralled with Jane's story, though it was the second-most interesting part of the storyline for me. The others were, at best, filler for me. I was pretty dissapointed.

I just read Ender's Game...again. I've had a relationship with Card's books for over 10 years now, and we are still going strong. If you want to start reading sci-fi/fantasy, start here. I love Ender. One summer I ended up just reading everything Card wrote: the Bean spin-off, the magic realism series. I love it all!!!

Finished the Speaker of the Dead.

A must read if you are or have read Ender's Game. This book dives into the life after Ender had destroyed a whole race and his obligation to fix the wrong which he did.

If you watched the movie, please read Ender's Game prior to this, since there is a lot of character development which of course the movie did not have time to achieve leaving many fans of the book lacking.

Once you have completed Ender's Game, pick up this book. It starts out a little slow, but by the end you will not be able to put it down. I think you will be able to relate to Ender who is just trying to right a wrong and show the love which he was not able to show in the previous book. (I know sounds a little crazy, but read the book and you will understand.)

Now on to Xenocide.

Once I had read all the books for the original series, these really filled in some answers.

Some parts long and slow as the actual journey

as much as i loved ender's game when it was required reading in our 9th grade english class, i became obsessed with orson scott card's other works and read each of the sequels several times over the following few years. my favorite would have to be children of the mind/xenocide, mostly because i was enthralled by jane, and also those piglet characters who spoke portuguese.

part of the Publisher's Weekly review from amazon said: "The plot is sometimes compelling, but the novel's many flaws make the book more often dull and irritating. Card's style is openly didactic, and when his characters do veer away from lengthy philosophical and scientific ruminations, they venture into contrived personality conflicts and endless self-deprecation. Some, notably Ender, Valentine and the wonderchild Wang-mu, are simply too good to be true--too smart, too reasonable, too kind and generous. The reader quickly tires of such impossible perfection."

in response, while i may feel the same if i were to re-read these books today, as a precocious young teen who enjoyed "lengthy philosophical and scientific ruminations," i for one never tired of their impossible perfection.

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This was a different book, not what i expected. Loved it thou, the religous and political flavor of the book was great.