Orson Scott Card Books

[Tailin]

If anyone wants to talk about one of the greatest writers ever, do it here! I've read the Ender Quartet, am reading The Shadow Trilogy, and the Alvin books, and have read the stand-alone Enchantment. All these books are good. Anyone want to talk?

[Grand Admiral Reese]

Card rules. Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon are great books.

[Tailin]

Have you read Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind? They're all great, though a little different than Enders Game. If you haven't read them, do it. And while your at it, look for a book called The Seventh Son. That's great too.

On another notice, if anyone wants to check out Orson Scott Card books, go to www.hatrack.com

[Bregalad]

I love the Ender series! I haven't read past "Xenocide" but I love all the ones I read. I think the first ones will always be my favorites. I just love the game! I want to play the game! But I'm sure I'd suck and be flashed right off the bat! Every time I read them I'm both jealous of Ender for getting to play the game, and furious with how unfair it all is to Ender.
But my favorite Orson Scott Card book has nothing to do with Ender. I love "Songmaster". Anyone read it?

[cee2lee2]

Yes, Songmaster was very good. The characters seemed very different from Card's previous ones.

Ender's Game was intense. I think it was powerful writing and will probably become a science fiction classic. I was not so captivated by the sequels.

I very much enjoyed the Postman short stories, but have not seen the movie.

Whoops, that wasn't Card was it!:o Was it David Brin?
(edited to acknowledge my mistake)

[flya152]

I also think that CArd is a great writer. Has anyone read any of the "Bean" books??


Eric

[galadriel]

I absolutely love Card's writing. I've read the Ender Quartet, Seventh Son, and The Memory of Earth. All of these were really great, although Ender's Game and its sequels are still my favorite.

I'm reading Ender's Shadow right now, a companion novel to Ender's Game that features Bean. It is, of course, incredibly good. It's really cool, because you get to see many of the events in Ender's Game from another point of view. Bean is a great character. I think I might even like him better than young Ender!

[Bregalad]

I've never read Ender's Shadow, but Ender's Game was my favorite, so I'm going to have to get a copy! I'd love to see it all through Bean's eyes!

[Treebeard's apprentice]

I like Card, too. I haven't read any of the Ender books, but I have heard a lot about them. Maybe I'll check it out one of these days. I have read all of the Alvin Maker books to date, though, and I must say, they are really great. There is some thing nice in thinking about the America that could have been. It is a very creative idea and lots of fun to read.

[Santee]

Card's books are for the most part pretty good. I liked Ender's game, but Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Speaker for the Dead were a tad bit out there for my tastes. They tended to take me to far into the mind.

I did like the Shadow series so far though. Of the two books I have read that is. When is the next one due out...

[Legolas_Frodo_Aragorn]

in TAG we read ender's game...i though it was VERY good, and i cant wait to read the rest....but my teacher is projecting this project to the max~!

[Duddun]

I've been planning to read these, because I'll my friends are reading them. I have Ender's Game sitting on my shelf because I got it for Christmas but haven't had time to read it.:(

[galadriel]

Originally posted by Santee
Card's books are for the most part pretty good. I liked Ender's game, but Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Speaker for the Dead were a tad bit out there for my tastes. They tended to take me to far into the mind.

I did like the Shadow series so far though. Of the two books I have read that is. When is the next one due out... I've finished Ender's Shadow now, and read Shadow of the Hegemon. I really liked the first one, but Shadow of the Hegemon was slightly disappointing. The whole second half of the book dragged a bit, especially since the focus left Peter so much. However, since Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets were supposed to be one book, I'm hoping for Card to redeem himself in the third book (which is already out; I'm just waiting for the paperback edition.)

It was still worth reading, however. The characters were great; I especially loved how Peter was portrayed.

[Estel13]

I have read Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide, and Children Of The Mind.
Ender's Game is the best. I want to play the Game so bad sometimes, it's freaky! Peter is such a little ****! The Fantasy Game is wierd! I would probably be good at the Game, because reality is whatever I want it to be. Usually. :D There aren't any bugger-lovers in here, are there? 1st time I read Ender's Game, I dreamed that night about the Game. I've always dreamed about being weightless, but that was the ultimate! Ok, I've run off at the mouth long enough. Later...... :p ;) :p ;)

[galadriel]

It is one of those books that you can talk all day about, isn't it? I first read it when I was about nine and the fantasy game especially disturbed me to no end. It was just so bizarre....

[Estel13]

yeah........*looks thoughtful*

[LeniFreak]

I read all four of the books about Ender and just finished "Ender's Shadow," and I love the books so much. Slight obsession case, actually. Has anyone here read "Pastwatch"? My friend Sarah made me promise not to read it until I'd read every other Orson Scott Card book I could get my hands on, she's that impressed with it. What I want to know is: is it THAT good, or should I just go ahead and read it? IT IS SITTING ON MY BOOKSHELF AND DRIVING ME NUTS.

[galadriel]

Pastwatch is enormously impressive. Card's so good at making historical figures come alive, and the sci-fi aspect of it is really cool too.

I still like the Ender's Game series best, but I love (or at least strongly like) all of his books, so it's difficult to pick favorites.

[Elf Girl]

I read Ender's Game, and the Ender trilogy, (can't seem to think of them as a 'quartet') and just recently finished Ender's Shadow. Looking for Shadow of the Hegemon. My very very favorite science fiction. REALLY great books.

Estel13: You would want to play the Game?

...to each his own.

[Estel13]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
Estel13: You would want to play the Game?

...to each his own.

Yes...And it's HER own, actually. :p

[Diaxion]

Sometimes I wish i could play the games and go to battle school like Ender.:cool:

[cassiopeia]

I just started to read Enchanted, and it's very good so far. A very nice blend of myth with today's world. I will definately be reading more of his books.

[Jinnigan]

Enchanted is very good, but also very different from Ender's Game.

Anyone read his 'thrillers'? You know... Homebody, uh... Lost Boys... hmm... yeah. Those?

[Elf Girl]

Ooh, I'm reading Shadow Puppets now. Very very good!

[Elf Girl]

*sniff* Finished Shadow Puppets. Who else has read it?

[cassiopeia]

I have just finished the Homecoming series and Speaker for the Dead. Speaker for the Dead is the best book that I've read in the last few years (apart from the LOTR). Homecoming was excellent, but I was slightly disapointed with book five and the ending. Expecially since there was only one original character left.

I'm reading every Orson Scott Card book I can get my hands on. Now I'm reading Ender's Shadow. Poor little Bean...:(

[Elf Girl]

Speaker for the Dead has sequels to. Xenocide and Children of the Mind.

(Sorry if you knew that. Just didn't want to deny you the joy of them if you didn't. :) )

[hectorberlioz]

So far I've only read 'Enders game'. I really loved it. I'm going to read all the ender books when i have time...

[eowyngirl14]

speaker for the dead is my new favorite book. Enders Game is really good too, but i didnt like Enders Shadow...

[johnnyrod]

Am I the only person who thought Ender's Game was trite and predictable? Perhaps this was the first book from OSC and since then his style and skill has extended itself somewhat, but this book has been criticised for its lack of sufficient realism and rightly so IMHO, as in, regardless of the backdrop, are there a believable story and characters there? I'm not convinced, and this is where SF usually falls down.

[Elf Girl]

Ender's game is only the setup for Speaker for the Dead and its series. I would recommend you read those before criticizing

[peperheart]

I loooooove "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" :D

[Scondren]

Ender's Game is a sweeet series.

I do have one complaint about the Bean series however: It makes Ender look like quite an idiot sometimes. He loses some of his...heroness? Coolness?

[samwiselvr2008]

I'm almost finished rereading Ender's Game, which is a great book. I read all of the "Shadow books" about Julian Delphikie (however you spell that, AKA, Bean), but I haven't read all of the Ender books, only Enders Game. I started reading the books last year when I was required to read Enders Game for school, and since Enders Shadow was a parralel novel, and I really liked Enders Game, I read that. Then I just followed into the Bean books. I really liked the last book, Shadow Puppets, about Bean and Petra, I just loved those parts, I didn't really cear to much about the world and everything that was happening with that, I just wanted to find out what was happening next in the Bean/Petra love story.

Is Orsan Scott Card planning to write anything else in the Bean series? I got a filling, for some reason, that he probally wouldn't, becasue of how the last book ended, but I still want to here about when Bean dies, the posability of him meating up with his family again, and Petra with the baby. I think that if he wrote another book, I would probally crie when Bean dies, I can just imagine him, a giant looking down at everyone, posabley holding his baby before he dies, eather still conserned about the other babys out there somewhere that don't know they're father and mother, or having the eggs securely safe in a hospital ones agian. Couldn't you imagine the baby? It would learn to walk at a much younger age then most kids, and would learn to talk at a younger age to. Petra, if she wasn't to busy somewhere else, then she would probally home school the baby so that it would be able to learn at it's own pase, instead of being bored during class at school while he should be doing Algebra 3 in second grade, and instead the teacher is teaching the students how to subtract 32 from 51 and multiply 1*3 and 2*3. The kid would be brilliant, a genouse. Petra seems like she would make such a great mom, in Enders Game, she seemed so tuff, but as a mom, she seems like there couldn't be anybody better then her. Anyways, I'm probally ramballing, and this should probally be made into a fan fic. thread, so i'll shut up now.

[Elf Girl]

I think we won't hear more from Bean. OSC is never conclusive... *sigh*

[samwiselvr2008]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
I think we won't hear more from Bean. OSC is never conclusive... *sigh*

I wish he was conclusive, I want to here more about Bean! *begins to cry* I might just have to write my own fan fic. ending to it! Anyone cear to joun me in a RPG? What forom would this go in? The RPG forom is for Lord of the Rings, would I pute it here? *looks confused but hopefull*

[Elanor]

Well, Shadow of the Giant is out know. More on Bean is available!

Orson Scott Card is my newest favorite author (out of many!). When I find an author I really like, I have to keep reading until I've consumed just about everything they ever wrote! With OSC, there's a lot to keep me going. So far (in the last month) I've read Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Homecoming (Memory of Earth, Call of Earth, Ships of Earth, Earthfall, and Earthborn), Alvin Maker (Seventh Son, the Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman, Heartfire, and most of Crystal City), and Enchantment. I love them all, but my favorite is the Alvin Maker series. It's so original and full of ideas, and I like the historical aspects too.

Next in my list is Shadow of the Giant-- convenient that it came out just in time for me to read it! Orson Scott Card actually came to my school to sign copies, but I was sick so I didn't get to meet him. Oh, well. He comes every year!

[eowyngirl14]

omg Orson Scott Card come to your school??? thats so cool! im jealous
where do you live?
i mean that in a completely non-stalkerish way, lol

[Elanor]

I go to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, which is where OSC went.

[Elanor]

And now I no longer go there, so I guess I've lost my chance to get his autograph. Oh, well.

I'm currently re-reading Shadow of the Hegemon, having recently re-read Ender's Game, its sequels, and Ender's Shadow. I've heard that OSC is planning/writing two more books in this series, one to tie up the loose ends with Peter and Petra on Earth, and one to continue after Children of the Mind, and have the characters on Lusitania confront the "descoladeros" or whatever-- the possibly sentient aliens that communicate (apparently) by biological signals and have interstellar capabilities. I most would like to see what happens to "old" Valentine after her exposure as Demosthenes.

I've also recently read Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Colombus. In this book, far in the future, humanity has decimated the planet and is dying out from food shortage; it will take millions of years to replenish the resources, and by then humanity (or at least civilization) will be gone. So they develop the technology to send something, or someone, into the past, and decide the pivotal point in history is when Colombus "discovers" America. I found this fascinating, and if anyone else has read it, do you think we would be justified in changing the course of history to preserve humanity as a whole?

[Alec]

I also think that CArd is a great writer. Has anyone read any of the "Bean" books??


Eric
Great book