<i>Ender</i> was innovative, <i>Speaker</i> was fucking brilliant, <i>Xenocide</i> was somewhat better than meh, and everything else he&#039;s done is crap. (And I say this as one who has read quite a bit of it).
Three thousand years of thinking about what the damned thing might actually mean. As opposed to &quot;Hey, it means what it says! Can&#039;t you read English?&quot;
Assuming you mean <i>Ender&#039;s Shadow</i>, it had some good points, mostly the change of viewpoint. But it already started to display the geopolitical stereotyping that screwed up the rest of that line of novels.
Incidentally, I haven&#039;t read all of Card&#039;s pre-Ender stuff, but what I did read just wasn&#039;t very good.
The idea that Jesus was a great moral teacher has always baffled me. Yes, there&#039;s plenty of good stuff about being nice to others, especially the poor and defenceless, but it&#039;s hardly original. Take that away, and what are you left with? &quot;Take therefore no thought for the morrow.&quot; Makes sense if you think the apocalypse is imminent; otherwise not so much. &quot;If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.&quot; The less said, the better. &quot;but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.&quot; That&#039;s just plain stupid.
I&#039;m married but I had to do some preemptive fornicating to make sure I made a good choice. Am I still a fornicator?
BUT WHAT IF YOU MARRY A CHRISTIAN AND SHE/HE BECOMES A PAGAN? DIDN&#039;T THINK OF THAT, DIDJA PYLES?
&quot;As you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.&quot; (Matthew 25:40)
Sadly, this is probably too late in the thread to gain the fisting it deserves.
A nation without fornication is like a day without sunshine.
Or Klute-era Barbarella.
<i>Ender</i> was innovative, <i>Speaker</i> was fucking brilliant, <i>Xenocide</i> was somewhat better than meh, and everything else he&#039;s done is crap. (And I say this as one who has read quite a bit of it).
Something tells me that the Dirty Sanchez is not on the menu.
I gotcher &quot;grok&quot; here right under my desk.
Lubriciously speaking, yes.
For values of &quot;bit&quot; equaling &quot;inch&quot;.
Sadly, no.
Three thousand years of thinking about what the damned thing might actually mean. As opposed to &quot;Hey, it means what it says! Can&#039;t you read English?&quot;
Sundays are slow days here at the Wonket.
Assuming you mean <i>Ender&#039;s Shadow</i>, it had some good points, mostly the change of viewpoint. But it already started to display the geopolitical stereotyping that screwed up the rest of that line of novels.
Incidentally, I haven&#039;t read all of Card&#039;s pre-Ender stuff, but what I did read just wasn&#039;t very good.
The idea that Jesus was a great moral teacher has always baffled me. Yes, there&#039;s plenty of good stuff about being nice to others, especially the poor and defenceless, but it&#039;s hardly original. Take that away, and what are you left with? &quot;Take therefore no thought for the morrow.&quot; Makes sense if you think the apocalypse is imminent; otherwise not so much. &quot;If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.&quot; The less said, the better. &quot;but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.&quot; That&#039;s just plain stupid.