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Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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ender's game is pretty awesome, when it's not being boring.
and of course it is just me - in class yesterday the parts i mentioned as being boring TO ME were other people's favorite parts. and this is all due to a design flaw in me: i am physically incapable of visualizing action sequences. in movies, they make it so easy. in books, i frequently have to reread scenes a few times before i can orient myself. throw in zero gravity and weapons that don't actually exist, and i am loster than lost.
but - the parts of this that are good (to me) were very very good. why have i never read this before?? because i thought it was a total little boy book - all outer space and video games. and it is. but it is also about the formative years of a military savant - pushed nearly beyond his endurance into this pit of loneliness and pure strategy and honed into a killing machine. usually i hate precocity, but this was just brilliant. i liked so many of the characters, i loved watching ender progress, i just loved every minute of it. and even the parts i couldn't wrap dumbhead around, they were still fast-paced, even though i couldn't understand "wait, so who is hiding behind the star?? and who has been flashed? and what does that cord attach to??"
and of course, all that it has to say about the role of ethics on the military and about the suppression of the individual in these circumstances is gorgeous.
and if you like this book, be sure to check out o.s.c's many review of snacks and other sundries:
this one is pretty informative
i am sorry this review is crap, but i am supposed to be studying for a midterm. plus, almost everyone has already read this, so it's not like i am discovering anything here.
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and of course it is just me - in class yesterday the parts i mentioned as being boring TO ME were other people's favorite parts. and this is all due to a design flaw in me: i am physically incapable of visualizing action sequences. in movies, they make it so easy. in books, i frequently have to reread scenes a few times before i can orient myself. throw in zero gravity and weapons that don't actually exist, and i am loster than lost.
but - the parts of this that are good (to me) were very very good. why have i never read this before?? because i thought it was a total little boy book - all outer space and video games. and it is. but it is also about the formative years of a military savant - pushed nearly beyond his endurance into this pit of loneliness and pure strategy and honed into a killing machine. usually i hate precocity, but this was just brilliant. i liked so many of the characters, i loved watching ender progress, i just loved every minute of it. and even the parts i couldn't wrap dumbhead around, they were still fast-paced, even though i couldn't understand "wait, so who is hiding behind the star?? and who has been flashed? and what does that cord attach to??"
and of course, all that it has to say about the role of ethics on the military and about the suppression of the individual in these circumstances is gorgeous.
and if you like this book, be sure to check out o.s.c's many review of snacks and other sundries:
this one is pretty informative
i am sorry this review is crap, but i am supposed to be studying for a midterm. plus, almost everyone has already read this, so it's not like i am discovering anything here.
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my actual "to-read" pile is an embarrassment
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Me, too! I always get completely lost, and usually I don't bother trying to go back through and decode WTF is happening. I just try to pay attention to whether anyone dies or not.
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karen wrote: "i am so glad it is not just me. when i was reading truancy, i knew it was because it was poorly written, but i know osc can write well... but i was fine in graceling and hunger games. they are so b..."
Oh, but that's likely because there WERE no exciting action scenes in Graceling.
Oh, but that's likely because there WERE no exciting action scenes in Graceling.
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I really liked the movie, though.
Oh, and I've never read Ender's Game either. This review makes me want to give it a try.
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but really in my view the less that happens the better.
unlike karen they bore me to death in movies as well. I fall asleep in lord of the rings during the battles
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In A Madness of Angels: Or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift the action happened in real time (like, here he's getting chased down the street, then he ducks into the alley and hears the monster coming, etc) and I had no trouble following it.
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doesn't that take a long time? I feel like that would be like the classical theater rules about "no more than 24 hours, not change of location etc." that really constricted plays to I don't want to say a less interesting genre, but perhaps a less diverse genre.
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In A Madness of Angels: Or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift the acti..."
yeah, it's not my shortcomings, it's theirs!!
i prefer this take.
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The social implications the book addresses makes it viable. Card's prose? Eh. He's really not a great "writer," for lack of a better word.
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karen wrote: "i liked his writing style, but it might just be because i am reading it in the context of a teen fiction class, and some of the more recent selections have given me lower expectations."
don't want you to think i missed that.
don't want you to think i missed that.
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Tatiana wrote: "I do wonder if your opinion of the author changes after reading this blog of his. I have to say, mine did, and not for the better.
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merry, is this my virgo?
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I FEEL THE SAME WAY! (about the trying to visualise/process all the action.)
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