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Title: Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card, David Birney, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, John Rubenstein ISBN: 1-57453-552-8 Publisher: Fantastic Audio Pub. Date: April, 2004 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 9 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (168 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: CLEVER LINE GOES HERE: The Story of Ender's End.
Comment: Let's be frank - if you're still reading all these reviews by now, you're a hardcore Ender Wiggin fan. Which means that you've already read the book, which means you don't need me to summarize any further. I would like to tell you my experience with the Ender Saga - I started in my early pre-pubescence and ended Children of the Mind in the last year of high school. It has paralleled my development most interestingly - starting out with incredible surety and pride and ending in self-conscious philosophy. Be honest - no real reader would tolerate Children of the Mind if he (or she, but most likely he) was not tied up in the series. The writing sags alarmingly, the plot frays like old rope and the characters' emotions are stamped directly onto their cardboard surfaces. I think part of the intense appeal of the Ender saga is that most of us read it in our youth. We all love the story of the boy genius - we all dare to draw the parallels between his life and our own. By reaching such an uppity segment of the reading populace, intentionally or not, Card has unmasked one doozy of a love/hate relationship. So feel free to read Ender from his first moments of brillance to his tragicomic death. But if you compare yourself to him, even if only in your head, remember that his life has turned out just as absurdly as anyone else's.
Rating: 3
Summary: A good ending...not great, but good
Comment: Card is one of my favorite authors. The only reason he's not my declared favorite is just because I haven't read everything by him yet. The Ender series stands as my favorite serious sci-fi series; I hold that Card serves up the perfect formula of adventure, levity, technical science, technically skilled writing, and just plain fun. The second half of the Ender series is noticeably more self-indulgent than the first. It seems stuck in that twilight zone where it might have been better if it were shorter, but everything seems to be vital to the storyline!
While not as gripping as the previous installments, I found the continued development of Ender and his doppelgangers satisfying, but I would have liked more about Novinha (though I can always refer back to Speaker) and some of the others. Card's ideas are still fresh and engaging; I thought the ending was well-done (after all, how DO you end such a stellar series? The pressure was immense and he came through), and furthermore, Card had the intelligence to know when to quit - to know when the story is over and not try to drag it out forever just to make more money. My hat's off to him - this was a great series, the ending is exemplary; not too long, not too short. And now it's on to Ender's Shadow.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great conclusion to Ender's tale!
Comment: First there was "Ender's Game", then "Speaker of the Dead", both Hugo winners, and now this great book that unravels and reweaves Ender's life and surrounding events and situations. This book is fantastic and I eagerly added it to other great books ranging from the Old School of science-fiction like "Foundation trilogy", "Childhood's End", "Stranger in a Strange Land" to cyberpunk like "Neuromancer", "Cryptonomicon", and "Darkeye: Cyber Hunter". Get it!
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Title: Speaker for the Dead : Author's Definitive Edition by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812550757 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812565959 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 09 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shadow Puppets (Ender, Book 7) by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0765340054 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812575717 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812550706 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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