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Re: Ender's Game ( was: Re: Dragon magazine comics)
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Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:46:57 GMT
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I absolutely *LOVED* Card's earlier books. I'd put him on the caliber of
early Stephen King. His short stories were especially provoking, if a bit
gruesome. He authored an excellent anthology on dread -- as opposed to
terror and horror -- which forever changed my outlook on horror flicks. (1)
Andrew Lynch wrote:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <37E8C910.60366C1E@voyager.net>...
> > Cool. I was sure the 4th book was about all that could be done there, I
> > was thinking Card had pretty much mined out that theme.
> > Does it suffer from the run-on tendency that recent Card works seem to
> > exhibit? It's like, "Orson, get to the point! I'd pay just as much for a
> > shorter book."
Alas, Card suffers from the Stephen King Syndrome -- the utter and complete
lack of editors with backbones, typically induced by too much success. The
only cure is to again make him earnestly work for the advance. Give me a
starving artist any day. :-,
> I
> was hoping that "Ender's Shadow" was the book that follows "Children of the
> Mind", but it is not. It is actually the story of Bean, one of Ender's best
> generals, and the book takes place at about the same time as "Ender's Game".
> Card wrote in the preface that it was a challenge to tell some of the same
> events from a different perspective.
This sounds interesting. The ending of _Xenocide_ was so limp, I never
picked up _Children of the Mind_. It'd be nice to see what he's done with
the story without having to have read book 4.
I haven't read _Ender's Game_ for so long, though. My only copy is a
mint-condition, personally autographed copy which I am really really really
afraid to open. :-,
> And I'd like to see if
> he makes them out to be varelese or raman also.
Raman are nice if boiled in water with ham and carrots, perhaps with some
chicken stock. And they're ten packages to the dollar at the store! Yum!
:-P
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. I just saw _The Mummy_ last night. I absolutely howled. I laughed so
hard I almost wet myself. (2) Barbara thought is was scary...
2. I know, it was supposed to be funny. Funny thing that it worked, too.
:-, It's going into my collection, next to the remake of _The Fly_.
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Remember -- the enemy's gate is DOWN.
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <37E8C910.60366C1E@v...er.net>... <snip> (...) <snip> Run on tendency? Hmmm. I'm not really sure what you mean, but I haven't read very many of his recent books. I have read some of his "Tales of Alvin Maker" books, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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