false 7967 27 Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in [book: Ender's Game], receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. 2327777 book 1986 Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, # 2) total:18911|5:5652|4:7310|3:4641|2:1082|1:226| 18911 73813 22698 999 5 8 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Jun 01 20:53:34 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 20:58:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false true Thu Aug 14 14:08:13 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 14:08:13 -0700 2008 Speaker for the Dead, though a sort of sequel to Ender's Game is a completely different kind of story than Ender's Game is. Where Ender's Game is a story of one boy's training, a story of education and manipulation, and, finally, a story about the consequences of not seeing or even attempting accur...more...]]> 4 7 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 22:32:26 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 18:51:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 7 false false Sat May 26 10:45:05 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 16:23:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 4 false false Sat Aug 18 12:00:08 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 12:00:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false true Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Mar 07 20:33:47 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 20:55:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 07:07:02 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 07:15:52 -0700 2007 Ender's Game, I was all excited to read this one, and it . . . was pretty boring. It wasn't TERRIBLE -- I finished it, but it was mostly boring.

The only really interesting things about it were a) biological concepts that are totally different from what we have here on eart...more...]]> 1 4 false false Sun Dec 28 15:57:21 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 16:06:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 23:09:30 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 23:09:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Jul 05 20:01:05 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 20:06:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed Jul 30 13:32:15 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 17:44:59 -0700 2008 5 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Mon May 21 17:35:04 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 22 20:14:51 -0700 2008 Ender's Game, although not at all similar to it.]]> 3 1 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:50:18 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 13:43:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false true Mon Jul 06 18:22:42 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 19 18:29:01 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 06 18:22:42 -0700 2009 Earth's first Alien Encounter with the Formic...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 19:38:06 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 22:11:01 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 19:38:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Feb 24 10:00:16 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 10:21:46 -0800 2008
Card's gift as an author is in his storytelling and his bend for the magical/fantastic. In Ender's Game, Enchantment and a few of his other works, we are drawn into a different universe and captured by the d...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue May 08 08:15:02 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 08:24:50 -0700 2007
But I'm sick of his subtle racism; I'm a bit sick of how Ca...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Mar 30 08:26:41 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 30 09:15:07 -0700 2007
Hundreds of years have passed since Ender defeated the Buggers and destroyed their homeworld. Where once he was regarded as humanity's saviour, now he is seen as history's greatest...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Apr 29 22:32:20 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 29 22:38:00 -0700 2007
The book has elements of mystery, religion/mysticism, anthro...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:08:58 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:40:03 -0700 2009 more...]]>