Ender's Game

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hey, I just read this book (and really liked it, though the end, with Combat School seemed a bit rushed). I'm looking at some of the sequals on wikipedia. Apparently, Speaker of the Dead, the 1st sequal won the Hugo and Nebula awards as well (first time an author won them twice in a row). Xenophobia seems to be ok, and then the 4th book apparently was crap.

The first book of the 2nd (Bean) series sounds cool (kind of like a Rosencranz and Gildestern version of the story), but I don't know about the rest of the Bean story.

Any info would be appreciated. Though I don't need it right away, I'm going to be reading the 1st book from the Ice and Fire series.

[KrazyHorse]

Shadow of the Dead

Speaker for the Dead

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, that one.

[Verto]

I've heard that all the others are trash, and also that the one written right after Ender's Game is ok


I liked Ender's Game, but haven't read the others.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

The whole series is good--at times, some books (particularly the middle Shadow books, the last one was better) meander off into some fairly heavy-handed religious areas. That's my only complaint...it really didn't fit the tone or subject of the series.

[Ecthy]

Which is the one right after EG, and what the hell is Rosencranz and what?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Dumb Germans... not reading their Hamlet

[Tassadar500]

I preferred the Ender's Shadow series to Ender's Game.

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Dumb Germans... not reading their Hamlet

Actually, I presume he was referring to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard. An excellent play, and one I've had the fortune to see twice.

[Ecthy]

We did Hamlet in school but I never followed the lessons. Some weeks ago I triedto read it again, got bored after 5 pages. It's such a shyte book, but then so is Romeo and Juliet, so it's probably Shakespeare's fault. I did enjoy my Faust and my Nathan, is it in bad translations or what?

I do rememebr there was some Rosencranz character in Hamlet now, BTW.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Actually, I presume he was referring to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard. An excellent play, and one I've had the fortune to see twice.

Well Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are IN Hamlet .

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Ecthy
I do rememebr there was some Rosencranz character in Hamlet now, BTW.

Andz CAN be taught!

And we didn't even have to isolate him .

[Ecthy]

Excuse me? Are you feeling a bit 1919-ish?

edit: ah, Ender...

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Verto
I've heard that all the others are trash, and also that the one written right after Ender's Game is ok


I liked Ender's Game, but haven't read the others.

Enders Game is OK. The rest is crap

I liked Cards Alvin Maker series better, good quality fantasy!

[mitch]

Re: Ender's Game

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Any info would be appreciated. Though I don't need it right away, I'm going to be reading the 1st book from the Ice and Fire series.

Read Game of Thrones asap. Amazing book.