Current Events > Started reading Ender's Game

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I think at this point this is my most read book

Thoughts on the book?
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it's my favorite book besides Night. ive read it a dozen times.

I liked it a whole lot. Good stuff, lots of ponder material for after its done.
Really decent world building.

Great series. I also liked the Ender's Shadow series about Bean.
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Heard the movie is a joke compared to the book, which makes me be interested in reading the books because so far that's what i've done with every movie adaptation of books and it usually holds true (like how they butchered war of the worlds compared to the book for example)
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Flintlock_Staff posted...

Great series. I also liked the Ender's Shadow series about Bean.

I like the Shadow series more than Enders 4, but I like Enders Game the best out of them.
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Cookie Bag posted...

Heard the movie is a joke compared to the book, which makes me be interested in reading the books because so far that's what i've done with every movie adaptation of books and it usually holds true (like how they butchered war of the worlds compared to the book for example)

Definitely agreed. One that comes to mind recently is the Maze Runner series. Booms were amazing but the movies were meh. Might not even watch the 3rd one coming out.
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Cookie Bag posted...

Heard the movie is a joke compared to the book, which makes me be interested in reading the books because so far that's what i've done with every movie adaptation of books and it usually holds true (like how they butchered war of the worlds compared to the book for example)

yeah i didnt even try to watch it

Flintlock_Staff posted...

Cookie Bag posted...

Heard the movie is a joke compared to the book, which makes me be interested in reading the books because so far that's what i've done with every movie adaptation of books and it usually holds true (like how they butchered war of the worlds compared to the book for example)

Definitely agreed. One that comes to mind recently is the Maze Runner series. Booms were amazing but the movies were meh. Might not even watch the 3rd one coming out.

I didn't even know maze runner was a series of book before the movie, and the movie was god awful, i should read those books too some time...
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Cookie Bag posted...

Flintlock_Staff posted...

Cookie Bag posted...

Heard the movie is a joke compared to the book, which makes me be interested in reading the books because so far that's what i've done with every movie adaptation of books and it usually holds true (like how they butchered war of the worlds compared to the book for example)

Definitely agreed. One that comes to mind recently is the Maze Runner series. Booms were amazing but the movies were meh. Might not even watch the 3rd one coming out.

I didn't even know maze runner was a series of book before the movie, and the movie was god awful, i should read those books too some time...

Yeah there are 5 books. The first 3 are in order then the last 2 that came out were prequels to the original.
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I don't think I finished the Enders game movie. Or shit, maybe I did. That's not a good endorsement at all.

I remember them making a few key changes that really pissed me off. There were a few other changes that seemed unnecessary and completely changed the tone.

It was upsetting, especially considering how long they waited to make it in order to "get it right".

Game was great, Shadow was amazing. 2 of my favorite books by far. Never read any others in the series though
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HighOnSolar posted...

Game was great, Shadow was amazing. 2 of my favorite books by far. Never read any others in the series though

Yeah, I always switch back and fourth on which book I like better. I remember after I read Shadow thinking that this was way better than Ender's Game, but then after I re-read Game again, I thought it was really close

So I kind of rate them equal, and that's hard to do with perhaps my favorite book of all time
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Probably gonna reread them both now after seeing this topic lol.
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HighOnSolar posted...

Probably gonna reread them both now after seeing this topic lol.

lol

They really are great books
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Having read all the Ender and Bean books, they.... get extremely weird in the last couple. You're best served reading Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and then all the Bean books and pretending like the remaining Ender series books don't exist.
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I kind of want to read Card's book that is like the Book of Mormon
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Interesting book. I can see why it's a classic. The real big problem with it is mostly the horribly anti-climactic ending. Orson Scott Card being a horrible human being doesn't help things, either.

One of my favorite books.
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Dash_Harber posted...

Interesting book. I can see why it's a classic. The real big problem with it is mostly the horribly anti-climactic ending. Orson Scott Card being a horrible human being doesn't help things, either.

I don't let people's personal shit mess with the things I like about them. Chris Benoit was a scumbag for what he did, but I have zero issues watching his matches or still calling him one of the best to ever work in Pro Wrestling.
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did the author do something bad?
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MakoReizei posted...

did the author do something bad?

He's a homophobic piece of shit
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Bad_Mojo posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Interesting book. I can see why it's a classic. The real big problem with it is mostly the horribly anti-climactic ending. Orson Scott Card being a horrible human being doesn't help things, either.

I don't let people's personal shit mess with the things I like about them. Chris Benoit was a scumbag for what he did, but I have zero issues watching his matches or still calling him one of the best to ever work in Pro Wrestling.

In some cases, I agree. It get's more difficult with mediums that tend to use allegory and symbolism to convey ideas and messages, such as literature and music. It's easier with sports, where their ability is based on their physical capabilities and almost completely independent from their ideas or opinions, but when someone writes a book it's almost entirely based on their thoughts and ideas.

I mean, I'm not saying Ender's Game is an anti-homosexual author tract, but you can see where I am coming from too, right?

Yeah, I can get behind that.
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He's a Mormon right?
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MakoReizei posted...

He's a Mormon right?

Yep, he is. That's why I want to read this Science Fiction book about The Book of Mormon by him, even though it's already kind of scifi.
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For such a homophobic bastard, he sure had a lot of naked boys running around.
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Is there any book in the series that talks about Peter's time at Battle School? I want to know how he was so evil there
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Bump for an answer
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IIRC Peter was never in battle school. He was monitored when young and rejected for being too aggressive.

The Ender's Shadow series does go quite a bit more into Peter's character and growth though.

Yep, I've read the Shadow series

He never went to school? I just took about 10mins to re-read what I just read to prompt this post, but I must have misread something because I don't see what I "read" lol
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Bad_Mojo posted...

Yep, I've read the Shadow series

He never went to school? I just took about 10mins to re-read what I just read to prompt this post, but I must have misread something because I don't see what I "read" lol

There's school, which is where we find Ender in the opening chapters. And then there's battle school, which is where roughly half the novel takes place.
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hollow_shrine posted...

Bad_Mojo posted...

Yep, I've read the Shadow series

He never went to school? I just took about 10mins to re-read what I just read to prompt this post, but I must have misread something because I don't see what I "read" lol

There's school, which is where we find Ender in the opening chapters. And then there's battle school, which is where roughly half the novel takes place.

Yep, I know that

I just clearly misread something. I thought when the two "voices" at the start of most Chapters they said something about Peter while he was in Battle School, but that's clearly not the case.
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