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FROM: Theyer Hillary <HTheyer@TORRNET.COM>
REC'D: 2/17/01, 4:25 PM

I’m hoping someone on the list can help me with a personal reading question.
I just finished Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, and I LOVED it. It
made me mad, it made me pace around the room, it made me stay up late
reading, it made me think, it upset me, it was all the wonderful qualities I
want in a “good read.” I goes in my “Top Ten of All Time I Have Ever Read”
file.

Now I know there are sequels, but sequels often disappoint. I thought the
way Ender’s Game ended, it didn’t need or require a sequel. I have the next
one in hand, but I want to know if I am going to be disappointed. Am I
going to think it falls far short of the original. The only person I can
find who has read it says it is "different.”

So I do want to know, are the sequels as good? Do they feature Ender and
Valentine and Peter or is it a “next generation” sort of sequel? Does Ender
find a planet for the buggers? Do they feature the same appeal to a YA
audience? I don’t mind plot being given away, in fact I want to know.

So anyone with opinions please let me know! I am afraid to read the sequel
if it will ruin this perfect book for me. You can reply off list,
htheyer@torrnet.com <mailto:htheyer@torrnet.com>

Thank you!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: SuQStrom@cs.com
REC'D: 2/18/01, 2:37 PM

The sequel is different, more mature. What I like about Card is that he
develops his characters. What I'm not fond of is his use of Portugese
without always translating things. But in the long run, still a satisfying
read. I've been slowly making my way through all of this series. I hope
this helps. Suzanne Strom, Chicago Public Library

FROM: kshannon@edmail.com
REC'D: 2/19/01, 9:42 AM

I agree with Suzanne Strom about the sequels -- more mature, different, dealing more with the buggers themselves -- who, why, how they are. Not really much like "Ender's Game", I didn't think, but I liked them. Much more like "Ender's Game", I thought, was the newest one, "Ender's Shadow". Very good, and, like the first one, set in Battle School.

Kathy Shannon
Thornwood H.S.
South Holland, IL


On Sat, 17 February 2001, Theyer Hillary wrote:

>
> I’m hoping someone on the list can help me with a personal reading question.
> I just finished Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, and I LOVED it. It
> made me mad, it made me pace around the room, it made me stay up late
> reading, it made me think, it upset me, it was all the wonderful qualities I
> want in a “good read.” I goes in my “Top Ten of All Time I Have Ever Read”
> file.
>
> Now I know there are sequels, but sequels often disappoint. I thought the
> way Ender’s Game ended, it didn’t need or require a sequel. I have the next
> one in hand, but I want to know if I am going to be disappointed. Am I
> going to think it falls far short of the original. The only person I can
> find who has read it says it is "different.”
>
> So I do want to know, are the sequels as good? Do they feature Ender and
> Valentine and Peter or is it a “next generation” sort of sequel? Does Ender
> find a planet for the buggers? Do they feature the same appeal to a YA
> audience? I don’t mind plot being given away, in fact I want to know.
>
> So anyone with opinions please let me know! I am afraid to read the sequel
> if it will ruin this perfect book for me. You can reply off list,
> htheyer@torrnet.com <mailto:htheyer@torrnet.com>
>
> Thank you!
> Hillary Theyer
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: "Brad Scott" <bscott@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 2/19/01, 9:42 AM

It's been a while since I read this series, and I can't comment on "Xenocide" or "Speaker for the Dead", but I recall that "Ender's Shadow" is actually a parallel novel. It follows the experiences of Bean, one of Ender's rival students at the training school, during the same time period as "Ender's Game". I enjoyed it as an alternate viewpoint, although it didn't have quite the same impact on me as "Game".

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

** All opinions are personal. **
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Theyer Hillary <HTheyer@TORRNET.COM>
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:10:39 -0800

>I’m hoping someone on the list can help me with a personal reading question.
>I just finished Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, and I LOVED it. It
>made me mad, it made me pace around the room, it made me stay up late
>reading, it made me think, it upset me, it was all the wonderful qualities I
>want in a “good read.” I goes in my “Top Ten of All Time I Have Ever Read”
>file.
>
>Now I know there are sequels, but sequels often disappoint. I thought the
>way Ender’s Game ended, it didn’t need or require a sequel. I have the next
>one in hand, but I want to know if I am going to be disappointed. Am I
>going to think it falls far short of the original. The only person I can
>find who has read it says it is "different.”
>
>So I do want to know, are the sequels as good? Do they feature Ender and
>Valentine and Peter or is it a “next generation” sort of sequel? Does Ender
>find a planet for the buggers? Do they feature the same appeal to a YA
>audience? I don’t mind plot being given away, in fact I want to know.
>
>So anyone with opinions please let me know! I am afraid to read the sequel
>if it will ruin this perfect book for me. You can reply off list,
>htheyer@torrnet.com <mailto:htheyer@torrnet.com>
>
>Thank you!
>Hillary Theyer
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Gary Branson <bransoga@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/19/01, 3:18 PM

I loved the sequel, but hated the third (Xenocide).

Gary

Theyer Hillary wrote:

> I’m hoping someone on the list can help me with a personal reading question.
> I just finished Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, and I LOVED it. It
> made me mad, it made me pace around the room, it made me stay up late
> reading, it made me think, it upset me, it was all the wonderful qualities I
> want in a “good read.” I goes in my “Top Ten of All Time I Have Ever Read”
> file.
>
> Now I know there are sequels, but sequels often disappoint. I thought the
> way Ender’s Game ended, it didn’t need or require a sequel. I have the next
> one in hand, but I want to know if I am going to be disappointed. Am I
> going to think it falls far short of the original. The only person I can
> find who has read it says it is "different.”
>
> So I do want to know, are the sequels as good? Do they feature Ender and
> Valentine and Peter or is it a “next generation” sort of sequel? Does Ender
> find a planet for the buggers? Do they feature the same appeal to a YA
> audience? I don’t mind plot being given away, in fact I want to know.
>
> So anyone with opinions please let me know! I am afraid to read the sequel
> if it will ruin this perfect book for me. You can reply off list,
> htheyer@torrnet.com <mailto:htheyer@torrnet.com>
>
> Thank you!
> Hillary Theyer
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

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