Anybody here read "Ender's Game"?

[crimsonblue]

I just read the short story, and it fucking kicked ass! I can't wait to get the book series and read them!

[Lyric]

1. Yes. I like it, too, although the rest of the series isn't nearly as good

and Orson Scott Card is a fundie, right-wing nutcase.

[quakerboy]

6. Seconded

And I was sad but not surprised when I decided to do my due diligence about the author.

[krispos42]

2. I did one about 10 years ago

Intesting concept. Makes me feel important when I'm playing first-person shooters... :-)

[murielm99]

3. I used to love Orson Scott Card's books.

Now I will not read or buy them. He is an uptight, vicious homophobe.

[Starry Messenger]

4. The first book is great.

I say that about all of OSC's series. He tends to lose his way. Ender's Game is a book I reread nearly every year though.

[XemaSab]

5. You should be aware

The author's interpretation is different than yours. :(

[tigereye]

7. great books and an interesting story

[mzteris]

8. don't bother -

the rest of the series totally sucked -

And, if you really really think about it - the premise of Ender's Game is pretty sick, too. . . .

OSC is a complete ultra rightwing whackjob with a "Christ-complex". He has some very bizarre and disturbing themes that run throughout his books.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. Ender's Game suffers from the same problem as Sword of Truth.

Good first book with an interesting premise that devolves into a heaping pile of shit because the author starts preaching at you.

[BulletproofLandshark]

10. The side series with Ender's second-in command is much more interesting IMO. n/t

[wickerwoman]

11. One of my favorite books in high school

and Speaker for the Dead wasn't that bad but OSC is a bad, bad human being (as pointed out repeatedly upthread) so I would buy the books secondhand or get them from the library to avoid giving him any extra money. Or you can read almost all of it free here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=yDtCuFHXbAYC&pg=PA47&dq=Ender%27s+Game&ei=yWTYScm4IIzckQTxktn0Ag#PPP1,M1