Book Journal - Speaker for the Dead
3/6 - catching up from vacation
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Book title: Speaker for the Dead
Author: Orson Scott Card
Genre: Science Fiction
# of pages: 382
Total pages this year: 29,961
Books this year: 77
Synopsis:
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
book_fairy rating: ***** (out of five stars) - My hightest rating! Special thanks to loosestrudel who highly recommended it! I admit being intimidated by the cover and sheer density of the book, but it's well written and in a way lends an insight into humanity - the weaknesses & the strengths. I enjoyed how much I really had to THINK about the human alien interaction. Maybe I'm still not quite expressing that right, so to sum it up, this book was amazing. I was moved to tears a couple times.
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Book title: Speaker for the Dead
Author: Orson Scott Card
Genre: Science Fiction
# of pages: 382
Total pages this year: 29,961
Books this year: 77
Synopsis:
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
book_fairy rating: ***** (out of five stars) - My hightest rating! Special thanks to loosestrudel who highly recommended it! I admit being intimidated by the cover and sheer density of the book, but it's well written and in a way lends an insight into humanity - the weaknesses & the strengths. I enjoyed how much I really had to THINK about the human alien interaction. Maybe I'm still not quite expressing that right, so to sum it up, this book was amazing. I was moved to tears a couple times.