Ender's Game

[rohirrim TR]

I've been re-reading this series and the trailer for the film just came out.

http://www.imdb.com/list/RDuccS_NvmY...hm_3p_vi2#lb-1

So is anybody excited? Horrified?

[GrayMouser]

I didn't like Ender's Game.Maybe it's because I read it after Speaker for the Dead, but mostly because it didn't ring true- maybe because I know a lot of five year olds. I remember thinking while reading it "This would be a great idea if they actually had kids playing the roles of kids."

I also see Card has been trying to back away from his anti-gay preaching.

Ender’s Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984.

It's not what year the book was written, Orson; it's what year you were on your crusade.

Ah, poor guy,facing the old choice: God or Mammon- looks like Mammon wins again.

[brownjenkins]

I prefer some of the philosophical discussions he has in the later books over Ender's Game. I enjoyed the book the first time I read it, but certain major concepts didn't seem to connect. Why would you need a smart human boy to conduct battles when you had that kind of computing power? Why would any military industrial complex as portrayed in the book have issues with using an ultimate weapon? It seemed like a lot of straw man situations.