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Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Arbit 10/09/2009, 9:38am PDT
Mischief Maker wrote:

Am I the only person who hated Ender's Game? It's such a boring story. "Special" kid alternates between playing shitty video games and beating his schoolyard tormenters to death. The last video game he plays turns out to be real. The end. It's like Dominic Deegan, but with a dystopian future where religion is outlawed, (but everyone falls to their knees and prays when the chips are down) in place of the justifiable rape. *SNORE*

The biggest thing that annoyed me (besides the ending being obvious as hell and OSC being a humongous douchebag in his foreward): how the fuck did the insect people not realize that humans were sentient? You can't produce and operate spaceships by accident. And why did it require two invasions to figure it out? Why did it require any invasions at all? He tries to make the reader sympathetic to the insect people ("buggers", another thing to hate) and lament humanity's terrible, rash decision to wipe them out but, logically, they gave every appearance of being a bunch of unrepentant genocidal motherfuckers. But instead, they were just incredibly super slow on the uptake. Too bad, so sad! *explodes your planet*

And holy shit, that foreward. Pages and pages of self-congratulation, deriding his critics and mentioning that he went Brigham Young University. Are you perhaps MORMON, Mr. Card? Maybe if you mention Utah and BYU a couple hundred more times we would get it. He addresses the complaint (from child psychologists and teachers) that real children don't act and talk the way they do in his book by saying that, well, he was a ostracized super genius child and that's how he talked and acted, so that's how it is. Self-insertion fantasy, ahoy! It's straight up masturbation fodder for awkward teens that fancy themselves misunderstood geniuses and a spacesuit and laser pistol away from being the savior of humanity.
The appeal of Ender's Game is hard to explain. One
of my personal thoughts is that people who love
the book can really identify with Ender. When I
read Ender's Game, I felt as if I was Ender. He is
a child who is way above the level of all the
other children in his school. He finds school
extremely boring because he is never challenged
(something a LOT of gifted and talented children
identify with.)
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        Bummer. by Mischief Maker 10/02/2009, 9:54am PDT NEW
            huh by FABIO 10/02/2009, 6:01pm PDT NEW
    frontpage plz NT by Zsenitan 10/02/2009, 9:55am PDT NEW
    Grat Space Battles by FABIO 10/06/2009, 10:56pm PDT NEW
        Tenative thumbs down (unless I'm missing something?) by FABIO 10/08/2009, 11:39pm PDT NEW
            Unfortunately you're not by Mischief Maker 10/09/2009, 8:06am PDT NEW
                Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Arbit 10/09/2009, 9:38am PDT NEW
                    Well ... that's just sci-fi, right? by Worm 10/09/2009, 10:53am PDT NEW
                        Re: Well ... that's just sci-fi, right? by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:52am PDT NEW
                            ACTUALLY LET'S HAVE AN EXCERPT by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 7:01am PDT NEW
                    Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/09/2009, 12:01pm PDT NEW
                    on sentient humans by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 12:18pm PDT NEW
                        Re: on sentient humans by Arbit 10/09/2009, 1:48pm PDT NEW
                            I don't fuckin' know man, I'm telling you what it says in the book. NT by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 5:04pm PDT NEW
                    Ender forward by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:18pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:38am PDT NEW
                The only thing worse than Ender's Game by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:12pm PDT NEW
                    Ender's Game fans also tend to love Atlas Shrugged by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:14pm PDT NEW
                    Also... by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:39pm PDT NEW
                        Speaker For The Dead was totally awesome compared to Xenocide. by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 1:42pm PDT NEW
                            Children of the Mind was actually my favorite by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:48pm PDT NEW
                                Oh yeah, and... by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:50pm PDT NEW
                                    Don't whiz on the electric fence NT by Entropy Stew 10/09/2009, 2:15pm PDT NEW
                                Card's women are always horrible creatures by FABIO 10/09/2009, 3:36pm PDT NEW
                    Re: The only thing worse than Ender's Game by Arbit 10/09/2009, 2:15pm PDT NEW
                        Re: The only thing worse than Ender's Game by FABIO 10/09/2009, 2:26pm PDT NEW
                    Oh my god, a good Fabio post. Hard on the heels of the adorable Korean Pizza eve NT by Zsenitan 10/09/2009, 3:45pm PDT NEW
                        Will your friends vote me into top 3 caltrops posters now? NT by FABIO 10/09/2009, 3:52pm PDT NEW
                            I will ask ^___________________________________________________________________^ NT by Zsenitan 10/09/2009, 3:55pm PDT NEW
                    ender's game won a hugo and nebula award for great science fiction, HAVE YOU? NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/17/2009, 3:57pm PDT NEW
                    I remember why I hated Speaker of the Dead so much by fabio 05/12/2015, 9:54am PDT NEW
            the enemies actually shoot back? that's not a tower defense game then NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/09/2009, 2:19pm PDT NEW
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