Ender's Game

There will be no sequels because Card's other books sucked ass. Despite his numerous Hugo and Nebula nominations, he was still the equivalent of a one hit wonder, except in his case it was literature instead of music. I remember reading Ender's Game when I was 20 or so, then buying a few of the sequels for an international trip thinking they would be great, but they in fact were incredibly boring. I don't think I was even able to finish Speaker for the Dead. Even Ender's Game itself, which imho was a good book, wasn'tthatgreat. It was short, wasn't particularly well written, and most of it's greatness came via the surprise ending and climax. It felt like a more serious version of a Piers Anthony novel.

That being said I did enjoy the movie, however my couch expectations are a lot lower than my in theatre ones. I can pretty much watch anything sci-fi on the couch and it's probably guaranteed at least a C rating.

Ok, but a fine example of why not all stories translate to movies.

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:

I am a giant faggot.

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So you didn't even finish the second book, but you can say with certainty that all of Card's other books sucked? Go kill yourself. Please.

Speaker for the dead was kind of slow, but the bean series was banging. Hard to believe they started from the same book.

Oatlord_sl said:

Ok, but a fine example of why not all stories translate to movies.

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This story didn not translate well to movie because it was not well translated. Take the introductory sequence for example, voice-over narrative, the worst posible choice. Furthermore, there was a distinct feeling of discrepancy between the screen-time they should have alloted to certain moments in the narrative and the actual screen-time we've got. Some important moments were glossed over, and insignifiant stuff dragged on forever.

intelnavi_sl said:

Speaker for the dead was kind of slow, but the bean series was banging. Hard to believe they started from the same book.

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The Bean series was Card cashing in basically. The speaker/Xenocide didn't sell like Ender's Game did, so he wrote a bunch of slightly altered Ender's Games to make that money.

Fleshing out Earth post-game was cashing in?

Sulrn_sl said:

Fleshing out Earth post-game was cashing in?

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Sure as hell wasn't writing because he had a quality story to tell.

Commander Vimeseh_sl said:

so he wrote a bunch of slightly altered Ender's Games to make that money.

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Eh, doubtlessly Card was trying to cash in, but they weren't nearly as bad as you make them out to be. The Bean/Peter books after Ender's Shadow are not parallel stories to the events in Ender's Game. They are relatively generic but entertaining geopolitical intrigue and action novels, with an easily ignorable amount of Card's moral philosophy. I've spent money on worse.