Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game

Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by quandrum on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @06:04PM (#2585741)

It's hard to see an author so defensive about their work. There will always be naysayers. Ender's game has persisted for so long in a way that so many of it's peers hasn't.

We have to remember that negative experiences effect our users more, and complaints will in general outnumber the praise, even if the the number of users who are unhappy are outnumbered by happy users by orders of magnitude.

Alternatively, haters gonna hate.

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Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by mattdeboard on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @06:17PM (#2585774)

I don't find it challenging or difficult or upsetting at all to see an artist vigorously defend his work. What I find "hard" is someone poo-pooing another person's passionate defense of something they care about.

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Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by icedpulleys on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @06:53PM (#2585883)

You don't have to put quotation marks around hard; one of its definitions is an adjective meaning painful or difficult to endure.

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Re:Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game by sp332 on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @07:23PM (#2585964)

GP used quotation marks because it was a quote.

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