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Nov. 24th, 2008
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Nov. 24th, 2008 11:42 amI recently read Ender in Exile - because the library had it. I don't generally buy Orson Scott Card's books anymore. Not due to his politics, but simply because like many authors, I don't enjoy his writing enough to want to re-read it.
The good: OSC clearly got re-energized for this universe with the Bean books. This latest is more in that vein than Children of the Mind and Xenocide (the latter put me to sleep; the former made me want to saw through my wrists with the binding).
The bad: EiE suffers from the same problem most of OSC's books have had in the last fifteenish years: all non-villainous characters eventually realize that their lives are pointless if they aren't in a heterosexual monogamous relationship, raising their biological children.
I ended up treating this somewhat like Ayn Rand or late Heinlein - read read read skim pointless blather I've read before read read. It's going back to the library, where I won't miss it.
The good: OSC clearly got re-energized for this universe with the Bean books. This latest is more in that vein than Children of the Mind and Xenocide (the latter put me to sleep; the former made me want to saw through my wrists with the binding).
The bad: EiE suffers from the same problem most of OSC's books have had in the last fifteenish years: all non-villainous characters eventually realize that their lives are pointless if they aren't in a heterosexual monogamous relationship, raising their biological children.
I ended up treating this somewhat like Ayn Rand or late Heinlein - read read read skim pointless blather I've read before read read. It's going back to the library, where I won't miss it.
