The Cafteria - the Morris Center, the place where I currently eat all of my meals.
The pen - some random person's at the place where you put your backpacks, used it to write a note in...
The Book - Ender's Game.
Ok - so I was walking into eat lunch as normal, and I see a copy of Ender's Game, looking very crisp and new, and there is a paper sticking out of it. So I look at the paper and there is nothing on it, and so I see this as my golden opportunity to leave a note about an awesome book to some random stranger. So I just wrote a note about how awesome it was, and how the reader should read the rest of the books in the series, and then signed my name and left my email address.
Within about 3-4 hours, I had an email from this guy, and he said that he had already read the book within the first 24 hours that he read it, and that he plans on reading more.
But dude, last night when I was writing about it in my journal, I got the cheesiest slogan in my head that I had to write it down - "Ender's Game, uniting the world one reader at a time." Hehe..so that was fun.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
And WHY haven't you persuaded this fellow to sign on to Hatrack? Hmm? Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
quote: The pen - some random person's at the place where you put your backpacks, used it to write a note in...
So you actually wrote the note in the pen? Cool.
Seriously though, that's cool. I think it's fate that there was a piece of paper in the book just waiting for your note. Did you ask this random person to come to hatrack? (Edit: rivka beat me to the last part.)
[ October 22, 2003, 08:28 PM: Message edited by: Julie ]
Posted by flyby (Member # 3630) on :
No I haven't, but that is the next thing on my agenda, once he writes me back, because I totally babbled about really weird stuff in the email I sent him. But to hatrack he must come.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Most certainly! Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
Random Musing...
We've got one BYU Freshman Jatraquera in each of the three on-campus dorms this year. Sarcastic Muppet's in Helaman halls (of course the best of all three ), Pajeba in Heritage, and Flyby in DT. How funny. (OK, maybe I'm just bored... )
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Spreading the joy?
Actually, it's to prevent what happens when too many Jatraqueros spend too much time in the same place for too long.
The center of gravity of our planet is such a fragile thing. Posted by flyby (Member # 3630) on :
Ok, another interesting development...
I get an email from Kyler (this is his name) asking me if I was the random girl who stopped him and told him that Xenocide was a really good book while he was reading it. I responded to him that no I wasn't. (Sounds like something I'd do though). Anyway, so then I was telling my roommate about it, and she said "that was me!" And so it was a hilarious little thing, so interesting. It really is a small world.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Wow, this is bizarre!! Just last week I passed a group of people in the hallway at school and heard them drop OSC's name in full...I stopped and heard this guy referring Ender's Game to another girl who hadn't read it. I bore my testimony (*snicker*) and told her she should read this book. Then I proceeded to give them the date and times of the Portland book signing. They were very receptive and seemed grateful for the info.
flyby, I think we are uniting the world!! Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I've been thinking about doing something like that for a very long time. My plan is to place a copy of Ender's Game (I'll admit, I've also considered The Book of Mormon) on a table with a sticky note attached to it that reads, "This book is one of the best you will ever read. It may even change your life. Read it and enjoy. Please, when you are finished, place it in a public place with this note on it so someone else can experience what you did." Or something less cheesy. The problem is, I have a few moral issues with spreading Orson Scott Card's books around for free. I mean, I want a writer as good as he is to get paid for what he writes. Hmmm.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Sounds like BookCrossing.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
I talked to someone at the Cannon who really didn't like Ender's Game. I was all like, "why on earth did you not like the greatest piece of scifi this century!?!?!?!?!?" Actually I was a bit more polite. He said something stupid like he didn't like reading about the computer game and stuff and wasn't a fan of scifi in general. I recommended the Shadow series and a few fantasy works. We talked some more and parted ways. Why can't I have a good OSC missionary experience?
[ November 03, 2003, 09:36 AM: Message edited by: sarcasticmuppet ]
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
I bought it for my niece and she loved it, and gave it to her friend, and SHE loved it. Next I lent her Speaker. No word back on that yet. My only OSC missionary experience to date.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, considering I started reading OSC's books because my ninth-grade English teacher (who is still a good friend) said, "Oh, you like science fiction? You have to read this," and gave me Ender's Game, I have a soft spot for such "proselytizing." Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I reccommended Enders Game to a Reformed Minister at a dog show. We were talking about "community" and what makes one and I even mentioned hatrack. Anyway he read it and liked it!
So I've done my bit for OSC.
AJ
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
To Hatrack to him lure, brains suck out of him I will.
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
I got a friend of mine to read EG in exchange for me reading a book of her choosing. Her first comment was something along the lines of "This book is too simple, a five-year old could understand it." But as she read farther she liked it so I loaned her ES and she eventually read SotH, but she though it was way too political. We'll ignore the fact that the book series she recommended to me (which I hated) was completely politics and war, just really boring. Any way, I think the speaker branch of the series would be too much for her so it wasn't a complete success, but wasn't a complete failure either.
And as for not wanting OSC's books to be read unpaid-for, it's okay for libraries isn't it? If the people who read it end up liking the book (and how could they not) then they will probably read more of his books so you will have done everyone a favor.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Perhaps this should not be on 'this side', but can someone elaborate on how 'Ender's Game' or Ender's Game or __Ender's Game__ or whatever the proper syntax, is changed their life? I don't ask in an incredulous way, but rather in a genuinely curious, would like to know more kind of way. Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I was actually being a little bit silly when I said Ender's Game changed my life. In a way, though, that's not so far from the truth. Before EG, I was a professed sf-hater. Numerous good reviews couldn't get me to open that book. One day, though, a tight situation forced me to read it.
Now I read and write science fiction avidly. I came to this site and met my husband here (well, I didn't know him here, but because of OSC and Hatrack, I met him). I have volunteered for three years for a university sf/fantasy publication, which got me interested in editing and gave me the experience needed for my current job.
Did Ender's Game do all of that for me? Yeah, indirectly. Besides, the ideas in it and even more in Speaker for the Dead have taught me what compassion looks and feels like, and I feel I have become at least a little better person because of them.
Posted by sarahdipity (Member # 3254) on :
Hmm now there's a great publicity idea. Ender's Game, a great way to meet girls.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Maybe we'd get more cool newbies. *looks around wistfully*
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