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Posted By: blkchaos Oct 16, 2004 - 07:49 am

It is stupid for anyone to try and make enders game into a movie it losses everything that makes enders game great such as your ability to see into the enders mind to feel everything he is feeling after a while reading the book you start to think like ender thats the power the book has that a movie will never have and i kinda like peter i just think orson uses him badly the other books distroy the first awe you had for him in enders game

Posted By: Queen Ehlana Dec 18, 2004 - 08:43 pm

Interesting how many people say this book is their favorite... I just started reading it yesterday. My G.T. teacher assigned it to me for the Christmas break. He let me borrow his signed copy, so I'm trying to be really careful with it. He must really trust me. He said that if it's not his favorite book, it's very close.

The story of the signed copy is that one year a student asked him to recommend a book to her. She ended up reading the whole series and getting the rest of the class to read it. Then she got the first four books signed for him. Card has a very strange signature...

Needless to say, I'm enjoying the book so far... I've never actually finished a sci-fi book before, unless you count Frankenstein or one of Anne McCaffrey's horrible books called something like Menolly's Song. Oh, I forgot about Anthem, but that was extremely short and didn't really have anything to do with science except for a light. Well, I just don't think of any of those as science fiction, even though I know they are.


Edit: Okay, I finished the book. It's amazing. Now I can't believe there are seven more bloody books to read.

Posted By: DungeonMaster Dec 31, 2004 - 06:56 am

theyre all different i think, all books in the series i mean, i think theres like a sub-series, the ender ones and the shadow ones.

ender's game and ender's shadow are the best in my opinion, dont you thnk?

speaker for the dead and the other shadow ones (well the ones ive read so far) make me think more and arnt very straight out. you need to read the good ones to want to read the others i think...

Posted By: ProfCrash Jan 01, 2005 - 03:41 pm

Well, the Enders Shadow series is much better then the Speaker for the Dead and the like. The Shadows series continues to follow the children while the other books follow a grown up Ender and then later generations. They are good but really are loosely tied to the original concept. Speaker for the Dead is really good.

Enders Game is some of the best Science Fiction available. I would highly recommend the other series by Orson Scott Card as well.

What do people think about the morality of training children only in the skills needed to be an Officer in the military?

Posted By: Queen Ehlana Jan 01, 2005 - 04:48 pm

"What do people think about the morality of training children only in the skills needed to be an Officer in the military?"

**shrug** I think it's brilliant. Haha... I dunno if it'd work out so well in the real world. But hey, there are far worse things... It's nice to pretend that this is a perfect universe where we can just let pure chance decide every individual's fate. You know, in this world, the parents are everything when it comes to the children. They pretty much get to decide what they're children turn into... It's not about morals. C'est la vie.

Posted By: UberNeoGuy Jan 05, 2005 - 06:39 am

what is morality anyway? just a series of guidelines dictated by ones community. Morals are not universal, no matter what we think.

Posted By: Aldan Jan 05, 2005 - 06:28 pm

Morals are always a societal issue, because if you do something damaging (or potentially damaging) to society or other people in general, then it is considered to be immoral by society, IMO. You could say that religion is societal as well, but if there is a god, then morality would have to be based on what that god says is moral (though it would probably match what society says in most respects, anyway...).

Posted By: Queen Ehlana Jan 08, 2005 - 06:52 pm

"if there is a god, then morality would have to be based on what that god says is moral"

God doesn't have to have morals. God doesn't belong to society.