A book for you to read SkeeterFollow

Since the book club thread seems to have got buried under Homosexual marriage and other frivolites i though i better start a new thread

The Book is called Speaker for the dead by Orson scott Card, it is semi Sci-fi in background <since it is set on another world and deals with Aliens> but is more an exploration of how we as a race deal with fear of those not like us.

It is book 2 of four in a series but can be read alone, in fact it was the book the author wanted to write but he couldn't work out how to do it without writing a prequal and then since he couldn't wrap it up at the end of the Main charicters involvement he ended up with 2 more books.

The first book Enders game deals with the main charicter youth and forms the reasons why the charicter becomes involved with the story in Speaker for the dead, it's a good book in it's own right and it might be worth you reading it aswell, but i think that you would love the second book.



Edited, Thu Feb 26 08:25:13 2004 by tarv

Has anyone ever seen Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing"? Its a pretty good movie about how pointless it is to judge people based on thier appearances. I had to watch it in one of the Criminal Justice Classes I took. I know its not a book, but it is still something that I think everyone should watch at least once.

my favorite book is "The Lords of Discipline," by Pat Conroy never read "Speaker of the Dead" but I think I like Orson Scott Card if he is the same author who wrote "Seventh Son"