I'm Ender's Game. I've never even read that. Just about every other book mentioned has been one I've read and at least liked.
You're right. He's evil. But you should see him naked. I mean really!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Hil R. - Feb 21, 2004 4:01:06 pm PST #942 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2004 4:19:09 pm PST #943 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ender's Game is a great book, especially if you haven't read much Card.
Gus - Feb 22, 2004 4:19:45 pm PST #944 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I'm trying to enjoy Dan Simmons' Ilium. A few huge logic flaws are spoiling the effect a bit. There is thing where women may have only one baby, in order to keep the population at a fixed number. What that would do is halve the population in each generation.
It is a major plot driver and just plain busted arithmetic. Grr.
Nutty - Feb 22, 2004 6:22:04 pm PST #945 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Um, maybe the men are supposed to have babies too? Never underestimate the demographic possibilities of MPREG.
I liked Ender's Game, but I'm personally of the opinion that there is a point in my education/growth after which I can't read it and respect it. That's the point at which I realized that Orson Scott Card doesn't know a single thing about developmental psychology.
Jess M. - Feb 23, 2004 11:34:29 am PST #946 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
I am Love in the Time of Cholera
You're Love in the Time of Cholera! by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff could get you killed.
um, whatev...
Strix - Feb 23, 2004 11:37:02 am PST #947 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm 100 Years of Solitude.
"Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time. Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village."
I'm a Latin Drama Queen!
Jess M. - Feb 23, 2004 11:43:43 am PST #948 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Well, changing an answer got me to:
You're Compassion Fatigue! by Susan Moeller
You used to care, but now it's just getting too difficult. You cared about the plight of people in lands near and far, but now the media has bombarded you with images of suffering to the point that you just don't have the energy to go on. You've become cold and heartless, as though you'd lived in New York City for a year or so. But you stand as a serious example to all others that they should turn off their TV sets and start caring again.
msbelle - Feb 23, 2004 3:45:12 pm PST #949 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I was getting some scrap paper from an old notebook and came across a wordlist I made for bookclub. We were reading The Professor and The Madman in January of last year and while I enjoyed the book, I found myself reading over words that I really couldn't define if I had to, so I kept a list, and mostly looked them up. 141 total.
Calli - Feb 24, 2004 9:04:35 am PST #950 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I got To Kill a Mockingbird.
Could be worse.
Jesse - Feb 25, 2004 9:35:00 am PST #951 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm in the middle of an old (re-released) Ed McBain book, The Pusher, and the thing that strikes me the most is that the only thing that dates it at all is prices. It's about cops (obviously) and junkies and hookers, but mostly about heroin. It's a little different from his "typical," I think -- there's a personal tie between one of the cops and the crime(s) -- and it's really good.
Oh, and when I say "old," I mean 1956.