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The name of Orson Scott Card was not unfamiliar to me nor was it reminiscent of boredom, so I picked up a used copy of Speaker for the Dead a few weeks ago. It languished unread on my shelf until yesterday.
Last night I read until I could read no more. This AM I technically finished reading it.
I say technically because this is one book that I will carry with me for the remainder of my life. OSC tells of the birth of this novel in detail and I was and am fascinated.
To a minor extent I, too, am an author but it is not my main passion nor my profession.
After reading this book (as in a relatively few others in my 57 years of reading omnivorously since age 5) I find myself bigger and better than I was before I picked it up. Thank you, Orson, for your perseverance, talent and skill. I feel deep sorrow for those who read without feeling or perception.
Jane joins Mike from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress as an enduring person in my memory. OSC's rendering of her was in depth and with sensitivity.
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If you liked Speaker for the Dead then you should also like Xenocide and Children of the Mind. I suggest you read those next.
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quote:If you liked Speaker for the Dead then you should also like Xenocide and Children of the Mind
This does NOT follow. I loved "Speaker for the Dead", it's among my top favourite SF books of all time -- and yet I loathed Xenocide and Children of the Mind, they're among my *least* favourite SF books of all time.
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Hey Aris, Did you find that xkcd from my previous post? Or is your loathing so prominent in your mind that you already to which comic you wanted to refer?
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quote:"Did you find that xkcd from my previous post?"
I was already a xkcd reader and had read that strip before you linked it in that thread, if that's what you're asking.
But in order to link it again here, I did save time by looking up its location from the previous thread, rather than googling for it, if *that's* what you're asking.
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