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Title: Is Ender's Game actually a good book?
Post by: bagofeyes on August 07, 2007, 10:41:35 PM: It won awards and shit, but the plot sounds childish and boring. I've had a copy of it for years but have never tried to start it.
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Post by: demi on August 07, 2007, 10:42:41 PM: It has naked boys wrestling in the shower - yes!
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 07, 2007, 10:43:55 PM: it's shit. it's like Left Behind: The Kids only instead of fundamentalist Christianity it's Objectivism
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Post by: demi on August 07, 2007, 10:45:03 PM: n a k e d

b o y s
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Post by: bagofeyes on August 07, 2007, 10:46:03 PM: Isn't Card a mormon too?
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Post by: tiesto on August 07, 2007, 10:47:15 PM: Didn't Card write the plot to Advent Rising?
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Post by: Candyflip on August 07, 2007, 10:59:18 PM: I liked it.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 07, 2007, 11:15:53 PM: you know, i hated ender's game as a teen, and everyone gave me shit for not liking it and told me i was a snotty asshole nitpicker fuck. now i realize two things from this: i should have stuck to my guns and continued to berate them for their shit taste, and that i am in fact a snotty asshole nitpicker fuck so why not embrace it. fucking teenagers! where were you, patel, when i wanted to be right!
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Post by: bagofeyes on August 07, 2007, 11:21:22 PM: Teenage years >:(
I got given shit for ages cause my super-christian mum wouldn't let me go to a Slayer concert.
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Post by: Ichirou on August 07, 2007, 11:27:35 PM: I read Ender's Game and thought it was pretty decent as a kid. Later on, I read the conspiracy theory of Card having written it as an apologia for Hitler and LOL'd.
Title: Re: Is Ender's Game actually a good book?
Post by: bagofeyes on August 07, 2007, 11:28:33 PM: Quote from: Ichirou on August 07, 2007, 11:27:35 PM
I read Ender's Game and thought it was pretty decent as a kid. Later on, I read the conspiracy theory as Card having written it as an apologia for Hitler and LOL'd.

I gotta check out this theory
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Post by: Candyflip on August 07, 2007, 11:49:41 PM: Quote from: Ichirou on August 07, 2007, 11:27:35 PM
I read Ender's Game and thought it was pretty decent as a kid. Later on, I read the conspiracy theory of Card having written it as an apologia for Hitler and LOL'd.
That was such complete horseshit it was laughable.
Title: Re: Is Ender's Game actually a good book?
Post by: DJ_Tet on August 08, 2007, 12:14:44 AM: Ender's Game is well worth reading, that's really the only answer you need.

I loved it, but I could give two shits about some theory about shoehorning christianity into a book. I just loved the ride for what it was. It was a really cool idea that lent itself to a novel format, they have been talking about a movie adaptation for years but I just don't see how it's possible. I'd love to see one if they could somehow pull it off, but I'm nearly convinced if they did make it into a flick that it would have to suck.

Just read the book.
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Post by: Ecrofirt on August 08, 2007, 01:46:07 AM: First off, I'm a little bit drunk, so I'm sorry if this message is shitty.

I loved Ender's Game. It's my favorite book. The companion piece, Ender's Shadow is pretty fucking awesome too. I enjoyed the rest of the books in both the Ender and Bean series, but I don't think many people did. Fuck 'em though. Fuck 'em hard. I liked the books. Fuckers.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 08, 2007, 01:47:06 AM: there are so many good books you haven't read yet, why read Ender's Game
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Post by: Ecrofirt on August 08, 2007, 01:48:24 AM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on August 08, 2007, 01:47:06 AM
there are so many good books you haven't read yet, why read Ender's Game
Fuck you, that's why.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 08, 2007, 02:06:21 AM: Oh, I'm sorry, did I hurt your feelings?

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Title: Re: Is Ender's Game actually a good book?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 08, 2007, 02:26:31 AM: Actual conversation I had at work a few weeks ago. Boss A has excellent taste in books. Boss B is a great guy but not as widely read within the genre:

Me: I'm looking for some new SF authors, can you recommend anything?
Boss A: You've read Zelazny, right?
Me: *disparaging look*
Boss A: Haha, of course. Okay, check out Clark Ashton Smith. He's like proto-Lovecraft.
Me: Sounds cool.
Boss B: Have you read Ender's Game?
Boss A: Shut up, men are talking.
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Post by: bagofeyes on August 08, 2007, 02:33:30 AM: Did you bust a cap in his ass?
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Post by: Fragamemnon on August 08, 2007, 07:13:38 AM: sorta OT, but Get Your War On is so great. I had a chance to hear David Rees, the creator, give a talk, and he is this super-meek guy who was worried that his parent's wouldn't like his comics!
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Post by: Ichirou on August 13, 2007, 05:16:31 AM: One of my friends and I were chatting and he recommended a book to me, Ender's Shadow, which is supposedly like a sidestory to Ender's Game that takes place around the same time as the original novel. Talk about getting desperate and going back to the same well for ideas, lol.