Re:Ender's Game Review
by pavel_lishin on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @05:19PM
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I strongly disagree with his opinions, too; I went to see him speak, and it was a great presentation until the end where he somehow spiralled off into a tirade about gay marriage killing society.
But I don't care. He writes (mostly) great books and he'll keep getting my money so long as he keeps it up.
I respect that he can write a book without selling dogma. I love Enchantment and Pastwatch, even if the Ender series has faded with time.
About the faded in time thing, I always felt Ender's Game was surprisingly precise in predicting the rise of online discussion communities, and how their anonymous celebrities can influence a lot of people, while just being a bunch of kids in their bedrooms. The book's from 1985 after all.
Yeah. That part's very impressive. Although, frankly, I'd take Fake Steve Jobs over Locke and Demosthenes any day.
I hadn't thought of that before. I'll have to read over that chapter again and check that out.
Re:Ender's Game Review
by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @07:46PM
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Peter?
Re:Ender's Game Review
by run4yourlives on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @05:58PM
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Why is this comment downmodded? This isn't digg people.
Who knows, maybe his writing is a form of repressed homosexual relief for him.
I still enjoyed Ender's Game very much, however. My problem with the review is that it can apply to any fiction that withholds gratification or attempts suspense and has a "super hero" type character. I think of Ender as a kind of super hero, in fact. Just one with geek qualities.
Do we then, call comic books a form of pornography?