What Are You Reading?

[Mzo]

I just finished Ender's Game and started Speaker of the Dead. I'm enjoying the series so far... seems like Neon Genesis Evangelion borrowed heavily from a lot of the concepts in Ender's Game. How far should i read into the Ender series? I'm liking Speaker so far, although it's quite different, and I heard Xenocide is really good. Is the Shadow series good too?

I read Ender's Game and loved it last year. Everyone told me to stop there because the rest is crap.

How is it like NGE? I never even thought about that show while I was reading.

[bbobb]

I don't know, the Speaker for the Dead books are decent as well. The shadow books are pretty meh, first book was a cool alternate look at ender's game but I lost interest with the rest.

[Compass]

I read Ender's Game and loved it last year. Everyone told me to stop there because the rest is crap.

They lied.

[Josh]

I've been trying to start Handling the Undead for weeks now, and can not seem to do it. I'm very interested in it, but whenever I start reading my brain fucks off and I'll go through a couple pages and not retain shit. Sucks.

[Doc Holliday]

Yeah, it's been slow getting into it for me, too. Glad you picked it up.

[dave is ok]

Cecilia likes the entire series, but she's crazy. Most people seem to like the first two books, and Ender's Shadow. I have no clue if the Bean books after Shadow are good or how Ender in Exile is.

Children of the Mind and Xenocide are the ones that get shit on a lot.

[Compass]

Philotes.

[sedition]

How is it like NGE? I never even thought about that show while I was reading.

A school of kids being trained to be humanities last hope against an alien threat. Both schools try to bear this burden and are being crushed by it. The military forces/tricks them to do things they would never do. Both Shinji and Ender are isolated and abused in the system, but Ender absolutely understands humans while Shinji runs from the complexities of relationships but is reflective while building his confidence. There are a lot of subtle similarities in there... like the pseudo-incestuous relationships between Ender/Val and Shinji/Rei.

[Mzo]

Looks like a stretch.

[sedition]

talk to your mom about a stretch.

just an IMHO man.. oh well.