Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Ender's Game

2006-04-19 Thread Laileana
I also liked Bean better than Ender. Bean was complex and interesting. I liked Ender in the first novel, but in the sequels he began to get on my nerves. He seemed to get older but not wiser. The Shadow books diverge from the Ender sequels. The Ender books jump into the far future and the

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Ender's Game

2006-04-18 Thread bootlegcomedian
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I loved Ender's Game but I enjoyed each successive book set in that universe a little bit less. One day I'll try to finish the series. Do i smell a reading partner? B Community email addresses: Post message:

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Ender's Game

2006-04-18 Thread Chris Hayden
I never cared much for Orson Scott Card so I read Ender's Game a long time after it came out to see why people thought it was so hot. I have to admit that he wro;te a book that touched his audience--a story of gifted children waging a computer war. As such I thought it was a very timely book

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Ender's Game

2006-04-17 Thread bootlegcomedian
I didn't notice much about the race issue. I did find it a bit encouraging to notice that he was muslim. It was a touching scene when Alai blessed Ender. Perhaps i didn't realize the race issue because i was so enamored (in both books) about the wonderfulness of battle school. But Ender's

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Ender's Game

2006-04-17 Thread B. Smith
I loved Ender's Game but I enjoyed each successive book set in that universe a little bit less. One day I'll try to finish the series. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished Ender's Game. I already read Ender's shadow so i kinda knew the

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Ender's Game

2006-04-17 Thread Nora
But Ender's Spiritual development? I didn't think of it much as development as a reactive growth. There's a difference between striving and getting somewhere because of pressure. I don't think of it as 'spiritual development' because in the beginning he didn't want to have the power and