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Posted by Gecko (Member # 8160) on :
 
I just finished rereading the book for about the 100th times yesterday, and again, as soon as I closed the cover, I drove to the store and maxed out my credit card on Jell-o Pudding Pops.

Could if be that reading EG somehow conditions you to liking Pudding Pops, and fill you with tendencies to procure them regardless of cost?Whether Card and Cosby are somehow in cahoots, I've yet to determine.
 
Posted by AMCSteel (Member # 6321) on :
 
I thoguht Jell-o Didn't make Pudding Pops anymore. I have been looking for them for atleast 2 years. Maybe just not in this area.
 
Posted by aragorn64 (Member # 4204) on :
 
Pudding Pops? I've never even heard of them. 0.0
 
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
 
If I were going to put subliminal message in Ender's Game, it would be to encourage people to buy and consume products that I use myself, so that they will continue to manufacture them. Pudding Pops are not on that list.

I think those subliminal messages came from aliens talking to you through your fillings, not from my book.
 
Posted by DavidGill (Member # 8166) on :
 
That's why I always have a ready supply of aluminum foil when I read an OSC book.
 
Posted by ShadowPuppet (Member # 8239) on :
 
I simply repeatedly bash my head into a brick while reading anything by Mr. Card

...I don't remember how to read anymore
 
Posted by Blackthorne (Member # 8295) on :
 
Every time I read the book I think that I must kill Erwiggin, and I don't even know who he is.
 
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
 
My grocery store stopped selling popsicle brand no sugar added fudgesicles.

I had to start going to the Giant all the way across town. I hate Giant.

Also the same grocery store started putting their all-natural peanut butter in glass containers instead of plastic. I did get over that, though.

Eventually.
 
Posted by OSTY (Member # 1480) on :
 
I think the subliminal message I found from the book is buy more Orson Scott Card books because the strangest thing happened after I read Ender's Game my bookshelf filled up with not only one copy of some of his books but 2 or three copies!
 
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
 
quote:
Every time I read the book I think that I must kill Erwiggin, and I don't even know who he is.
[ROFL]
 
Posted by Boukun (Member # 8381) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by OSTY:
I think the subliminal message I found from the book is buy more Orson Scott Card books because the strangest thing happened after I read Ender's Game my bookshelf filled up with not only one copy of some of his books but 2 or three copies!

Yup, story of my life.
 
Posted by OSTY (Member # 1480) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Boukun:
quote:
Originally posted by OSTY:
I think the subliminal message I found from the book is buy more Orson Scott Card books because the strangest thing happened after I read Ender's Game my bookshelf filled up with not only one copy of some of his books but 2 or three copies!

Yup, story of my life.
Didn't figure I was the only one here like that! :-D

Hello, I am Osty and I am a book addict! LOL!
 
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
 
I wonder if readers of Wyrms suddenly find themselves wanting to determine the purpose of dividing houses and buildings into rooms.

Or if the readers of another novel of mine are looking for the children of a woman named Gicstreet.

Or if readers of another book are trying to figure out how to stop someone named Ershad from feeling more pain.

And to end all speculation on the subject, there is no such person as "St. Meetings"; nor was a fir tree ever named after him. Nor do I think that mirrors are a sin committed by a map.
 
Posted by Peter Howell (Member # 8072) on :
 
Mr. Card, I think you may have just referenced the complete collection of books by you that I havn't read. I don't have Wyrms (yet), and I don't recognize references 2 or 3. I assume from the last part of 4 that it's one of the short stories from Maps in a Mirror that I have yet to get to. Can somebody enlighten me?
 


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