Anyone else a big fan of Card? Enders game and Enchantment are my favorite novels. :) Which of his series do you like?

I enjoyed the Ender's Game series, but the other couple books of his that I've read, Homebody and Lost Boys left me cold. I also did not enjoy the Ender's Shadow series past the first book. Card himself has gone a bit batshit as of late, expressing very homophobic and racist views and I noticed it start to seep into his writing with the Ender's Shadow stuff, so I gave up on him. I've heard the Alvin Journeyman and Songmaster (?) series are good, but I never got into them.

We read Ender's Game for school. I actually liked it :D I was surprised. I have plans to read the next one, but I still haven't gotten around to it, and it's been a few years <<;; oops!

I did enjoy it, though. The ending surprised me :o I was all "omfg no wai!!!"

I do think he's a great writer, but yeah, I don't love everything he does, and I know my political and moral views are a complete 180 from his since I'm a crazy blue liberal and Card's... not. Really very much not. Sometimes that does effect my ability te relate to things he's doing, but I still do like reading his books when he's not doing things that are reminiscent of deus ex machina and writer wish fulfillment.

I haven't finished reading all his books (I've a huge reading list) so I'll hold off on judging the most recent stuff until I see it. But hey, if you want a vastly different set of politics in science fiction, Heinlein's great, his stuff has a lot of social variety (and some pretty trippy stuff, in a great way). Actually, Heinlein probably needs a topic to himself if there isn't one already...

I rather enjoy Orson Scott Card. Around one of my friends it is an absolute neccessity, otherwise you'll have absolutely no idea what she is talking about. ^^;

My favorite of his series is either the Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow series. I can't choose because I absolutely adore Bean, but Ender is so interesting.

For anyone who hasn't read either yet, read Ender's Game first, otherwise Ender's Shadow will kinda ruin it for you.

Originally Posted by B-Rice

Anyone else a big fan of Card? Enders game and Enchantment are my favorite novels. :) Which of his series do you like?

I love Card's work. Ender's Game and Enchantment are my favorites, too. I have a love/hate relationship with Hart's Hope. It was well written, and I love the story...but I hate the story... it's a little difficult to describe.

I wish we would read Ender's Game in school. I think there is a lot to learn from Card's style and from Ender's story.

i think Card is one of those authors that you have to take his work and look at it separately from his life. his books are art, very beautiful art and need to be treated so no matter his political views. i don't agree with everything he does or says, but his books are still very good. i'm sure Ender's Game is going to become a classic, because it's so accessible to children and adults alike and there are fewer and fewer books that manage that.

Ender's Game already is a classic, at least in the realm of science fiction! But then, sci fi is usually ahead of the rest of the industry twenty or more years.

(It's a pun, get it? XD)

I enjoy the Ender's Game series as well as the parallel Ender's Shadow series. I really haven't read much of his other works though ^^:

The other day online, I was reading the forums for a certain webcomic, and someone mentioned of a character who had just been introduced that "I hope he's mentally gifted. This group has enough magically and physically powered individuals--they need a Bean."

I couldn't help but laugh aloud at that. Apparently, I'm not the only one who is geeky enough to incorperate the characters in my life!

I really liked the Ender's Shadow series. Bean is amazing, and the whole 'other perspective' thing is wicked.

He also writes great essays- he wrote one on what he thought would happen to Snape in the last Harry Potter, and he was mostly right. :D

Originally Posted by Gwendolyr

I really liked the Ender's Shadow series. Bean is amazing, and the whole 'other perspective' thing is wicked.

He also writes great essays- he wrote one on what he thought would happen to Snape in the last Harry Potter, and he was mostly right. :D

Really? Is it online? Do you have a link to it? Do share!

I've read most of the Ender's Game series. I loved the first book, but the one's after that were a little depressing.
This was probably because I was in elementary school when I read them and I lost the connection with Ender when he grew up in the other books.

The Ender's Shadow series was good too.
Card is a very good writer. I couldn't stop reading Ender's Game when I "borrowed" it from my brother. In fact I read it at least 6 times before I gave it back to him.

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow were both amazing books. I read them when I was 8, so I didn't really understand them. After re-reading them this year, they made much more sense.

I just read Ender's Game for the first time, and I really liked it. I haven't gotten the chance to read any other books of his, though... I think that my school's library only has Ender's Game, but I'm not sure. x.X

I'm working on reading every novel he's ever written.
I'm sure that there is only one series I haven't read.

I've read the entire enderverse saga including first meetings.
I've read the entire homecoming series.
I've read Enchantment.
I've read two of the women of genesis books and have started the last one.
I've read magic street.
I've started Hart's hope, but I'm only pat way through. it's a very hard book to understand.
I own Maps in a mirror LARGE paperback version.
I own a few of the alvin maker series.
I own the worthing saga.

I'm way to big a fan of card.
Someone should have a support group for author addiction.

This man is the best author I know of and could write a thousand-page book about the contents of his refrigerator and still have it be page-grippingly interesting until the last word. I've read the entire Ender series, The Lost Boys (noting to do with the movie or Peter Pan), and Empire. Does anyone else read his works? If so, what have you read and what do you like best?

i have read some of his work. I like some of his less known work.

I've read all of the Ender Series and a book called Enchanted (nothing to do with the movie... well actually you could make a cast for Disney stealing that idea sort of). Enchanted is probably my favorite but that is because I like the romance in it. The Ender series never gets old though. I've read Ender's Game more times than I can count and I will never stop thanking my junior year lit. teacher for assigning it.

I know he's well known for the Ender Series but the only book I've read of is Enchanted lol I really liked it.... I should probably try out the Ender series when i'm done with what i'm reading now

I've read some of his works but not too many.I've read Ender's Game

Yes, yes, yes. Anyone here read A War of Gifts? Interesting, that one read like Card writing his own Ender's Game fanfic, oddly.

One of my absolute favorite books is Speaker for the Dead. I actually got myself a signed copy of it a while ago. I tend to re-read it about once a year.

I'm actually a big fan of Card's work. I read all of.... *tries to remember series name* I remember something about silver threads.. and connections.... THE HOMECOMING SAGA!! I had to look it up. v_v;;

Haha. I tried his other series.. And hated them.

it's all about the Ender's books. ;3

I have the entire collection. I think other than Ender's Game, my favorites were Children of the Mind and Speaker for the Dead. :3

I dunno.. I think Children of the Mind and Xenocide were just a little to out-there for me...