Children of the Mind

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• The Best Reviews: Orson Scott Card, Children Of The Mind

  "A good science fiction thriller" Ender Wiggin continues to redeem his life following the genocide he once caused. Ender resides on the planet Lusitania, home to the indigenous Pequeninos, a human settlement, and the Hive Queen he saved. Ender soon f ... (read full critics)

  thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  up to now, the worst of the first four

  reading this I had the same feeling I had where reading Dune 4-6: same characters used over and over, defeating death and boring the reader.

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  Andrew "Ender" Wiggin said on Jun 20, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  I find that the more of Card's novels I read, the less I like them. I enjoyed the story, as I did with the previous three in this Quartet (the other four Ender-universe novels I suspect I won't ever pick up), but there's so much talking and so little doing. I just wished the characters would shut up ... (continue)

  I find that the more of Card's novels I read, the less I like them. I enjoyed the story, as I did with the previous three in this Quartet (the other four Ender-universe novels I suspect I won't ever pick up), but there's so much talking and so little doing. I just wished the characters would shut up and get on with things.

  I think I'd have appreciated the moral quandries more when I was younger, and the trying to figure out the ethics of the types of scenarios Card lays out. I don't know if I've gotten lazy or if I just prefer to do that sort of thinking about real-world problems.

  There's also a tone of moral superiority to these novels that sort of bothers me. I'm not sure I can peg any particular instance where I feel like it's the author rather than the character making a point, but I did very often feel that way. I know that any author is a part of his or her novel to one extent or another, but perhaps these books (more than most that I read) feel like soapboxes. And nobody likes the guy on a soapbox, even if you agree with what he's saying.

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  Hold Your Spin said on Feb 1, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  This book is just dragging along. I mean, there's only so much that we can take of knowing that Andrew's attention is divided. And just save Jane already!

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  Tuesdayoncatnip said on Jul 26, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Good ideas, but just not as good as Ender's and Bean's sagas

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  Francois said on Jul 1, 2008 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

• Book 4 of the Ender Saga.

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  Tif said on Mar 12, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 384 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0812522397
• ISBN-13: 9780812522396
• Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
• Pub date: Jun 15, 1997
• Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook
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