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<Today one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?> Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Losing faith in card,
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This review is from: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet (Mass Market Paperback)
Ender's Game rocked. Speaker was kind of dull, but an interesting 180 from Ender's Game. Xenocide, while I think it was a little better than Speaker, could have been so much better if he'd cut mayeb 100 pages from it. It's very long, very dry, and very slow. For four hundred pages he hits us with problems and quandries, then solves them very ho hum, as if it's no big deal. Better than a lot of stuff i've read, but a let down as far as Card's work is concerned. If the next one is any worse, I may forego Card's work for a while.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Can't believe SF readers actually enjoyed it,
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This review is from: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet (Mass Market Paperback)
I can't believe all the good reviews Xenocide is getting. This book has no storyline, the so-called deep moral dilemnas could have been better laid out by a 4th grader (no offense to 4th graders), the pseudo-science in it makes it look like a parody of SF (ansibles, philotes, the Outside, auias... please stop), the ending is just disrespecful to readers and the whole 600-page thing just does not make any sense, and has no purpose. OSC has never been a great "writer"; with Ender's Game, he showed he could be a good "storyteller". But since Xenocide basically does not have a plot at all, there's nothing good left out of it. I haven't read Children of the Mind yet, and I may not, despite the fact that it was originally supposed to form just one book with Xenocide and I'm still missing the real ending. But should I care?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Disappointment.,
By Christian Klein (Herndon, VA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet (Mass Market Paperback)
I hate myself for writing these words, but they must be written: Xenocide is a major disappointment.In all honesty, ANY sequel to Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead would probably be something of a disappointment. Those two books did a superb job of telling an excellent story in an extremely detailed universe. It's a miracle the Card managed to follow them up at all, given their scope, but, sadly, the follow-up will leave even the most faithful Ender fan let down. Card clearly likes to write. That's why he's written so many books. But he must have REALLY wanted to write this time around, because every single conversation is long beyond belief. Every character has something to say concerning some ethical or philosophical issue, but then some other character who has a different take on that issue shoots down the points made by the first person. And then the first person goes and shoots down the shoot-down. Except then the second person shoots down the shoot-down of the shoot-down, and that soon gets shot down as well. I am NOT exaggerating. This is the root of all problems in Xenocide. Card writes too much when it comes to everything, especially all the trivial, boring points, and as a result, everything else gets bogged down too. The story is good, but you can only get bits and pieces at one time because there's so much dialogue shoved in between. All of this is encompassed in the single, biggest flaw in the entire series: Orson Scott Card only wrote half a book. Everything is left unfulfilled because the author decided to leave the end to the saga until Children of the Mind. It's a shame, too, because this book had so much potential. I'm sorry for writing this, Mr. Card; just put the whole story in one package next time, and shut up about philosophy already.
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