Ender's GameFollow

I read the first one. Maybe it was just me, I don't know, but I really did not enjoy it. For whatever reason people worship this author and I just don't understand it. I thought the book was extremely slow moving and at points the story was almost painful to read. Just based on my reading the first one I refuse to read any of Card's other novels.

Did you ever just find an author where despite all the rave reviews you hate their writing style? That's where I am with Card.

Tarv touched my no-no spot.

Great now i feel soiled

I just couldn't get into the book. Just wasn't my style. It moved extremely slow for me. Though it could have been because it was so painful to read.

I really enjoyed Ender's Game, simply because the hero was so kick-***. It's like The Fountainhead with fewer {******* Sword}s and more aliens. I really don't think Card ever understood the appeal of his own book though. He's even said that he wrote the novel-length version just to set up Speaker for the Dead.

Ever since then he's written to get his (nearly cliche) ideas and (almost bigoted) philosophy out there, instead of the cerebral swashbuckling we've come to expect.

Ender's Shadow and it's sequels fit more in the spirit of the original, but the plots are not as believable. Still I've reread both series a few times and I enjoy them.

This is one of my favorite books and I have a copy signed by Card.

If you found this story painful to read, I wouldn't read any more of OSC's stuff. I'm a big fan of OSC. In fact, I'm re-listening to the Ender's Game audiobook now. But he has a habit of making the me care for a character or characters in a book and doing something to them right in the middle of the book that just breaks my heart. I've come to expect it now.

As far as rave-review authors that don't impress me, Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Huddard are my picks. I think the characters these guys create are consistently shallow. I still enjoyed Hubbard's Mission Earth series and Heinlein's book Starship Troopers in spite of this though. Stranger in a Strange Land is one of Heinlein's signature stories, but about three quarters of the way through, I couldn't take any more. I just put it down and never looked back.

Edited, Sep 26th 2007 9:41am by BigDaveB

I can't stand hubbard personally.

In retrospect, I find it pretty funny that there was this futuristic world or aliens and space ships and zero-grav laser-training centers and, in it all...

Ender's brother and sister gain massive political power across the known galaxy by debating in lengthy political screeds on blogs. It's good to know I can rise to power one day if I spend enough time on Politico and Daily Kos.

But, hey, it sounded good back before the internet was the thing it is today.

Anybody else read and enjoy this series?

Read, yes. Enjoyed, no, but then again I'm not nine years old.