So... Ender's Game *OT* (Off-Topic)

by Chewbaccawakka , The Great Green Pacific Northwest!, Tuesday, November 05, 2013, 13:31 (4039 days ago) @ Leviathan

I don't think I'll see it anytime soon. Not saying it couldn't be good. It's just one of those books that worked so amazingly AS a single book that I'm not interested in supplementing that special space in my brain where the experiences reside. Same reason I didn't read any of the sequels.

Man, I understand wanting to preserve the original experience, but you are missing out! When I first read Enders Game I immediately jumped into the sequels and I hated them. They were such a departure from the original, that eleven year old me didn't know what to do with them. But I read them all, and then I reread them, and re-read them.

The Shadow series, I could take or leave, they're good books but not my favorite. However Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind weave such a complete tapestry of Andrew Wiggins adult life that they easily reside at the top of my list of favorite sci-fi. Xenocide alone might be my favorite sci-fi novel, period.

Don't read them if you don't want to, but as a long-time Enders fan know that I absolutely loved the sequels. (Except the recent Ender in Exile, that one was kinda meh)