 | | Re: How to conduct an interview and not actually listen —Daniel Jassim
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| | | Pretty sorry stuff as far the interviewer goes. She needs to get her head out of... As far as the author, Mr. Card, I have no clue who he is but judging from the explanations of some of his stories, the guy is either a complete nutcase or total (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: How to conduct an interview and not actually listen —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) _Ender's Game_ isn't intended as (nor does it come off as) comedy. You'd have to actually read the book(1) to see why the premise of child warriors, in context, isn't nutty at all. The author does a pretty good job of setting the stage for why (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: How to conduct an interview and not actually listen —Daniel Jassim
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| | | | (...) Sounds kind of freaky. I've never been much of a novel reader so I'll probably never get to it. But I imagine the author's choice to use little tykes as protagonists serves his commentary on modern societal values (or lack of)? (...) "South (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: How to conduct an interview and not actually listen —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Mark the above sentence as "exhibit A" (...) It's not "freaky". Really. Trust me. I won't go into why, except to say you would have to read it, and accept the premises. (...) That's unfortunate. I suspect that these novels would not translate (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: How to conduct an interview and not actually listen —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | (...) Card is writing the screen play for Enders Game as a current project. IIRC, he has scrapped the project a couple of times because of movie-company constraints and is keeping insanely tight control. I suspect A) it will never be made or B) it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: How to conduct an interview and not actually listen —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Although I prefer B), I am OK with A) as long as we don't get "C) it will be a travesty of the original work the way most SF movies are". (...) I'd go with "nothing" except both involve apparent humans. I tried saying that twice, actually, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: How to conduct an interview and not actually listen —Mladen Pejic
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| | | | (...) snip (...) Isn't it very easy to mislead adults too? Aren't adults the one who mislead children? What if an older child mislead a younger one? Who is *really* to blame? I'd personally say propaganda, issued either by the news (CNN comes to (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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