Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott CardkatiskingJanuary 18 2011, 01:39:13 UTC
Bean's story of how the Bugger wars went down. I thought the story was well written, but I found myself getting a bit bored with the genetics story line. I don't think that's because it was poorly written, just the genetics tagline before (Flowers for Algernon, Ceres, Idlewild). It will be interesting going forward to see how Card develops the issue that Bean is continually growing (genetic interference continues to burden the body as the mind grows stronger).
I also liked Bean's personality and seeing everything that the grownups were doing without Bean's knowledge. Lots of catholicism references, with Sister Carlotta being one of the main characters.
I also thought the idea of childhood gangs on the war torn streets was pretty interesting too. The idea of "papas" and gangs were really intriguing.
It was cool to see how Bean and Ender's story lined up with each other, when reading Ender's Game right after this.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott CardkatiskingJanuary 18 2011, 02:06:29 UTC
This was Ender's story of the bugger wars.
I liked the underlying psychology of this book better than the other book. In this book, Ender acts like a kid and doesn't "discover" the adult's plans of having them literally command the war from battle school. This innocence against the adult's cynicism worked well as a shock factor. I liked how Card portrays kids as actually being acutely aware of what's going on.
I liked the dynamic of Ender, Peter, and Valentine. I especially liked Peter's character, and was actually hoping for him to return to his old dark self because I would have liked to see how Ender reacted to that.
Ender was a bit angsty about being like his big bro, which was annoying and I wish Valentine would have stepped it up better.
The book did get a little boring after reading Ender's Shadow. I thought that what really made it worth reading though was the last 50 pages or so where Card explains how the Buggers communicate and exploring their technology.
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I also liked Bean's personality and seeing everything that the grownups were doing without Bean's knowledge. Lots of catholicism references, with Sister Carlotta being one of the main characters.
I also thought the idea of childhood gangs on the war torn streets was pretty interesting too. The idea of "papas" and gangs were really intriguing.
It was cool to see how Bean and Ender's story lined up with each other, when reading Ender's Game right after this.
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I liked the underlying psychology of this book better than the other book. In this book, Ender acts like a kid and doesn't "discover" the adult's plans of having them literally command the war from battle school. This innocence against the adult's cynicism worked well as a shock factor. I liked how Card portrays kids as actually being acutely aware of what's going on.
I liked the dynamic of Ender, Peter, and Valentine. I especially liked Peter's character, and was actually hoping for him to return to his old dark self because I would have liked to see how Ender reacted to that.
Ender was a bit angsty about being like his big bro, which was annoying and I wish Valentine would have stepped it up better.
The book did get a little boring after reading Ender's Shadow. I thought that what really made it worth reading though was the last 50 pages or so where Card explains how the Buggers communicate and exploring their technology.
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