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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. It is an acceptable ending to a rather good series. To be honest the ending should have come earlier. ( )On disk 6 out of 11 I realized that I never read book 3 of this series (Xenocide). I noticed that there were some new characters and strange things had happened to them but I thought I just probably forgot or didn't understand the ending of -Speaker for the Dead-, since Card tends to get surreal at the ends of his books. What's strange is that this book starts practically where -Speaker- left off. At the end of -Speaker- they were waiting for the fleet to arrive and trying to escape. At the begining of this book it's the same situation. So all I can deduce is that not much time passess in Xenocide. I have mixed feelings. There really wasn't anything exciting in the first 3/4ths of the book. Then there was kind of a plot. There was a LOT of dialogue. But the good thing is that it was well written. Unfortunately there were some annoying characters and sometimes the arguments bugged me. Anyways, no more Ender for me. Just not sure what the facination is.... I bought this book, and read it, and put it in the place where all books go until I want to read them again. Due to the nature of this place, I then lost track of it. And moved. And some of my books are still in my mother's house waiting for me to come back for them. So there I was in a bookshop looking for something to read, and bought this book again. I had forgotten I ever had it, let alone read it. This should be a reasonable indication of just how much of an impact the book has. There's a couple of interesting suggestions about the nature of reality that let it keep the second star, but really I wouldn't bother if I were you. The only redeemable quality of this book is that in it the Ender series finally ends. Sort of. Mostly. If you are considering starting reading the Ender books, just stick to Ender's Game and go no further. Really. You'll be happier for it. Card is a master story-teller, and he continues his legacy in this final book of the Ender saga. Most of the loose ends are tied up as the race to save Jane, Ender, and Lusitania comes to a close. 0.245 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0812522397, Mass Market Paperback)Children of the Mind, fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book, Xenocide. The author unravels Ender's life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to mention another "sister" Valentine. Multiple storylines entwine, as the threat of the Lusitania-bound fleet looms ever nearer. The self-aware computer, Jane, who has always been more than she seemed, faces death at human hands even as she approaches godhood. At the same time, the characters hurry to investigate the origins of the descolada virus before they lose their ability to travel instantaneously between the stars. There is plenty of action and romance to season the text's analyses of Japanese culture and the flux and ebb of civilizations. But does the author really mean to imply that Ender's wife literally bores him to death? --Brooks Peck(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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