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by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/09/2009, 12:01pm PDT |
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Arbit wrote:
And holy shit, that foreward. Pages and pages of self-congratulation, deriding his critics and mentioning that he went Brigham Young University. [...] 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.
I've only read one OSC book, so for all I know it's dissimilar to his other work. But, if Ender's Game is at all representative, he's a good storyteller in the ways that Asimov isn't. Er, wasn't. I don't finish the majority of books I start, mostly because I find the prose to be a chore to slog through. Whatever its faults - and there are many - the pages turn quickly in Ender's Game.
I don't read forewards and afterwords, so I never saw that OSC went smug before his book starts. What the fuck is that? Let's say that all the things that he claims happened happened: you wrote one of the most famous books in the world. The book speaks for itself. If you are still tormented by past aggression, the fact that Ender's Game will never, ever be out of print is your giant QED. To add anything to it at all means you're an indefensibly tedious bitch. The most satisfying victory one can have, in life, Caltrops and everything in between, is the need to say nothing further.
the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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Mischief Maker's Indie Roundup: The Reboot by Mischief Maker 10/01/2009, 7:08pm PDT
Re: Mischief Maker's Indie Roundup: The Reboot by FABIO 10/01/2009, 9:48pm PDT
Bummer. by Mischief Maker 10/02/2009, 9:54am PDT
huh by FABIO 10/02/2009, 6:01pm PDT
frontpage plz NT by Zsenitan 10/02/2009, 9:55am PDT
Grat Space Battles by FABIO 10/06/2009, 10:56pm PDT
Tenative thumbs down (unless I'm missing something?) by FABIO 10/08/2009, 11:39pm PDT
Unfortunately you're not by Mischief Maker 10/09/2009, 8:06am PDT
Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Arbit 10/09/2009, 9:38am PDT
Well ... that's just sci-fi, right? by Worm 10/09/2009, 10:53am PDT
Re: Well ... that's just sci-fi, right? by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:52am PDT
ACTUALLY LET'S HAVE AN EXCERPT by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 7:01am PDT
Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/09/2009, 12:01pm PDT
on sentient humans by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 12:18pm PDT
Re: on sentient humans by Arbit 10/09/2009, 1:48pm PDT
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
Ender forward by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:18pm PDT
Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:38am PDT
The only thing worse than Ender's Game by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:12pm PDT
Ender's Game fans also tend to love Atlas Shrugged by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:14pm PDT
Also... by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:39pm PDT
Speaker For The Dead was totally awesome compared to Xenocide. by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 1:42pm PDT
Children of the Mind was actually my favorite by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:48pm PDT
Oh yeah, and... by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:50pm PDT
Don't whiz on the electric fence NT by Entropy Stew 10/09/2009, 2:15pm PDT
Card's women are always horrible creatures by FABIO 10/09/2009, 3:36pm PDT
Re: The only thing worse than Ender's Game by Arbit 10/09/2009, 2:15pm PDT
Re: The only thing worse than Ender's Game by FABIO 10/09/2009, 2:26pm PDT
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
Will your friends vote me into top 3 caltrops posters now? NT by FABIO 10/09/2009, 3:52pm PDT
I will ask ^___________________________________________________________________^ NT by Zsenitan 10/09/2009, 3:55pm PDT
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
I remember why I hated Speaker of the Dead so much by fabio 05/12/2015, 9:54am PDT
the enemies actually shoot back? that's not a tower defense game then NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/09/2009, 2:19pm PDT
Re: Mischief Maker's Indie Roundup: The Reboot by Bananadine 10/21/2009, 2:25pm PDT
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