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!

[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).

[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?

[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).

[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.