| Re: Ender: too much of a good thing?
Ender's Game seemed like a "stand alone" to me. Similar to the Matrix, it was so well done that I could enjoy it over and over again. However, when I learned it was a series, I eagerly asked for the sequel for Christmas. Like with Matrix Reloaded, I was severely disappointed. "Speaker for the Dead" is sub-par and morbid at best, dogmatic and masochistic at worst. In particular, the Catholic bashing got old, and I put the book down, never wanting to look at another Orson Scott Card book again. Card should have quit while he was ahead...or at least not been so heavy-handed with the moral relativism and put a little sunshine among the clouds once in a while. At any rate, the first book was amazing. |