Yes, Card certainly is, although he expended his entire genre for me in the Ender Quartet. The rest of his work, as far as I know, delves into fantasy. Not my cup of green tea. I first found Speaker For The Dead then went back and read Ender's Game, then Speaker For the Dead again, then Xenocide and Children of the Mind. I think I've read Speaker four or five times. The man has an extraordinarily expansive mind and awareness. Hollywood was going to make a film out of Ender's Game but Card wouldn't let them change it the way they wanted to and he refused to let them do the book, so we're stuck with our imaginations.
Of course the XY in me also makes me like Heinlien's only venture into fantasy with Glory Road. Talk about conflicted. Heh. On May 16, 2:10 pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Orson Scott Card is another gifted writer I enjoyed. Don't miss Enders Game. > > dj > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:04 PM, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Two of the best books I've ever read -- based on the amount of > > esoteric and ethereal information and insight I received from reading > > them -- are The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson and Speaker For > > The Dead by Orson Scott Card. They are both fiction novels and I'd > > recommend them to anyone searching for the meaning of life and a good > > read. However, neither are easy reading. They make the reader work > > for their essence. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
