OMG Reading

[jetpack_monkey]

So. I'm reading again. Like voraciously devouring literature instead of thumbing through non-fiction. You can thank the girl I'm seeing as I pretty much got the third degree for not having read Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game." My whole "but he's an asshole" argument was tossed out the window pretty soundly.

This book is So. Awesome. And freakin' hard to put down. I was staggering around like a zombie this morning because I lost track of time reading last night. I should be through the whole thing either tonight or tomorrow.

Spurred on by this development, I went to Borders again last night to grab some more Major Sci-Fi Classics that I'd missed -- "Neuromancer" by William Gibson, "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov, and "Speaker for the Dead" by Card. I also replaced by tattered, well-read copy of "Lord of the Flies" while I was at it. Also grabbed a copy of Card's "Empire," based on a recommendation from the girl I'm dating.

I'm rather pleased by this, really.

Comments

[holy-whatever.livejournal.com]

Ender's Game is probably my favorite sci-fi novel. Either that or Childhood's End. (I am, of course, discounting any and all dystopic future fiction, because omg I have such a thing for that whole genre that it would just be unfair to all the other books if I included them in a competition like this.)

[blackrose1354.livejournal.com]

Ender's Game is amazing, along with that whole series! Sorry, huge Card fan, had to pop in and join the cry for your need to read the rest of that series. The end, oh my god, craziness. READ THEM ALL!

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Word to that. Dystopia is like my favorite thing EVER.

[kinetikatrue]

Ok, though, once you've read Ender's Game? You need to go back and read Ender's Shadow. Seriously. They're kinda amazing together.

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Card : Asshole.

Ender's Game : Awesome.

Stopped clock : Right twice a day.

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

Please tell me you've read Snowcrash or The Diamond Age by Stephenson at least!

Ender's Game is one of my favourite books ever - my dad put it in my hands when I was about 12 as an antidote to all the crap McCaffrey books I was reading. Speaker for the Dead is pretty good too, but Ender's Game is flat out the best (and the others are all pretty much downhill).

[brightone.livejournal.com]

oooh, Childhood's End is so good. I should reread that.

[miwasatoshi.livejournal.com]

Ender's Game is pretty much incredible. Also, Ender himself = me, between 5th and 9th grades. It's not so much viciousness -- I just never wanted those bullies to bother me again. Their own damn fault for picking on the wrong smart kid. :)

[freedomfry.livejournal.com]

I *love* Ender's Game, even though Card is one of the tooliest tools ever to tool. I also still love Braveheart, even though Mel Gibson's, you know, himself.

Separating the art from the artist? Something like that?

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

That is almost exactly what I was going to say here. Great book, horribly flawed person.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

EEE! Snowcrash!!!!!

[steinba.livejournal.com]

I wasn't a big Neuromancer fan, but Ender/Speaker are solid as hell. As is the Foundation trilogy. I would also recommend The Mote In God's Eye (Niven and friends).

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

Stephenson and his inability to properly write an ending drive me nuts, but Snowcrash is SUCH a fabulous book!

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

I often wonder if we share the exact same taste in books or if we just both have such catholic tastes that they overlap to a huge extent. :D

[holy-whatever.livejournal.com]

Little bit of column A, little bit of column B omg....

[darklightluna.livejournal.com]

Neuromancer and Foundation are awesome, but I had the worst time getting through them. I think I had about ten pages of notes for Nueromancer just to keep anything straight. (It was for class, but I never take notes on books, even for class.)

I really need to re-read Ender's Game - it's been way too long.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I haven't. I picked up Snow Crash when I bought Ender's, but I've been informed in no uncertain terms that I am not to read it until I've read some earlier cyberpunk so that I can appreciate what Stephenson was doing better.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

...that's a pretty damn good way of putting it.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

...gah, another one for the list. Dammit.

[yaseanne.livejournal.com]

Seconding that rec. It's like one HUGE story, told from two different POVs - no, it's one theme with two outlooks. Something like that. ;)

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

I can see the logic in that viewpoint! Though I found that skipping over most earlier cyberpunk saved both my sanity and the book's binding from being hurled across the room as I generally am not a huge fan.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

Snowcrash is just fun as little character studies and to see the technology. I don't even remember liking the plot, but I LOVED the ride that book takes the reader on! :)

[kinetikatrue]

Yes, exactly. It does what really good fanfic does by making you see a story you thought you already knew/understood in an entirely different way . . . that makes just as much/more sense than the original.