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Post by GRWelsh on Nov 11, 2013 12:13:42 GMT -5
Anyone see this movie yet? I haven't seen it yet, and I'm expecting disappointment. It's one of my favorite books, but I can't see how a two hour movie will be anything other than a truncated let-down. Ender gradually overcoming all of the obstacles in battle school over a period of years is the meat of the book, and I can't see the movie doing that justice. I would like to see how they visualize the "game" at the end, however, with the "Little Doctor" weapon!
ENDER'S GAME is one of those books that is just great as it is, a stand alone novel. It doesn't need any sequels, prequels, parallel novels, or any more detail. Yet it has somehow been turned into a franchise of books by Orson Scott Card. Link it to the Ender series, and I guess it helps to sell books...
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Post by geneweigel on Nov 11, 2013 21:22:26 GMT -5
I don't know, I haven't been in a rush to go to the movies lately. The kids seem more excited about HOBBIT II than I am at this point.
ENDER'S GAME I've never read it but its probably because it was never recommended by anyone.
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Post by GRWelsh on Nov 12, 2013 8:59:58 GMT -5
I recommend it.
I also read SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD, and it is also worthwhile, but not as good. It is a story that could have been told without having to be a sequel to ENDER'S GAME, because it deals with completely different themes and situations, set far away and thousands of years in the future. Ender is still alive because of the time dilation effects from near-light speed space travel. But at this point he is an adult and essentially a totally different character. It has nothing to do with Battle School, or Ender being a military commander -- it's more like a mystery sf novel.
XENOCIDE is the next book in the series, and I'm not sure if I'd recommend reading it or any of the other books after it, because they begin to seem like vehicles for Orson Scott Card's philosophical and metaphysical musings. And some of the things that happen in these later books seem more magical than science fiction, and I for one just wasn't buying it.
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Post by grodog on Nov 15, 2013 21:19:30 GMT -5
I read Ender's Game for the first time in the past 10 years or so (while we were still living in CA), and while did enjoy it, it didn't have the major impact to me that I think it might have if I'd read it when I was a child or teenager.
When did you read it, Gary?
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Post by GRWelsh on Nov 16, 2013 7:27:55 GMT -5
When did you read it, Gary? When it first came out as a paperback, around 1986 when I was 17.
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