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Posted by TheDisgruntledPostman (Member # 7200) on :

I've read all the books in the ender universe, shadow and speaker books, and they are amazing. But now that i look back on the books, i've come to find that im not as familiar with the names and certain scenes. For reasons i've decided to re-read everythin. Is it just me or does anyone else feel this way?

Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :

have you read "First Meetings in the Enderverse"?

Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :

ok, I have some inside info.......don't let OSC hear but if you like sci-fi......read the Hyperian books by Dan Simmons

Posted by Pinky (Member # 9161) on :

Yup. Actually, that's something I really like about the OSC- books: that they are worth to be re-read. Most of the time I read too fast, because I want to know what happens, so there are usually a lot of details "saved" for the next time. [Big Grin]

Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :

Yeah. Recently, upon reading a post here, I realized that I had completely forgotten about Dink in Ender's Game (the only Ender book I've read).

And I do find myself skipping ahead in OSC books. I know it takes me a while to fully absorb the meaning of everything that's going on, so I sometimes look ahead when I'm impatient to find out what will happen next.

Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ramdac99:
ok, I have some inside info.......don't let OSC hear but if you like sci-fi......read the Hyperian books by Dan Simmons

Does OSC have something against those books or Dan Simmons? I think it's a really good series, though not as good as the Ender/Shadow books. [Wink]

Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :

I loved the first of the Hyperion series. But I lost interest as Simmons concentrated more and more on literary references and less and less on the story elements that I loved. Not any flaw in Simmons OR in me - I'm just not in the audience for the kind of fiction he turned the series into.

It's rather the way I feel about Dune. I love Dune itself, and have reread it several times. But what apparently interested Herbert most about Dune is NOT what interested me, so as the sequels went on, I became less and less interested. Since the sequels obviously thrilled millions of readers and obviously interested Herbert himself, my vote is irrelevant.

No writer can please every possible reader with every book. It says nothing about the quality of either. Just a divergence of interests.