For example, I can't stomach the violence in GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire. It detracts from my general enjoyment of life. So I probably won't be buying the next book, alas. (It was a brilliant story...)
That's not a position so much as a reaction. I know my limits; I know that I feel better when I stay within them.
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Ok just one question. Have any of you heard of a thing called a LIBRARY. I love OSC books but I also love any time travel books or other science fiction. I am older than the rest of you by a long ways I think cause I love Heinlein and Asimov too. I also read biographies and autobiographies. You can't own everything that is what the LIBRARY is for. Try it sometime.
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quote:Originally posted by mommy1: Ok just one question. Have any of you heard of a thing called a LIBRARY. I love OSC books but I also love any time travel books or other science fiction. I am older than the rest of you by a long ways I think cause I love Heinlein and Asimov too. I also read biographies and autobiographies. You can't own everything that is what the LIBRARY is for. Try it sometime.
I'm curious - what prompted this?
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Actually, OSC is VERY sensitive to sex or bad words in movies in his reviews. He usually notices them where I would just don't see them (and anyway wouldn't pay attention) - in completely average films.
I wrote this post because level of violence in these books is exceptional - Genocide of few races or being professional killer - and is performed by children. You don't usually see this in other books, at the least I don't see it too often.
I think if you can object to sex in movies you can object to violence in books. I don't consider myself too sensitive.
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quote: In first three books I noticed VERY HIGH level of violence, performed by children in two of these books. It is not so usual in other books I read. I would be interested how Orson Card can explain his position on violence in books here.
At the end of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Ender's Game audiobook by Audio Renaissance there is a long afterward by OSC. The whole afterward is just him talking about the book and his experiences with it over the years. He directly addresses the issue of violence. It is well worth $20 to buy the mp3.
The better question though is, did you find the first two killings by Ender more shocking than the thousands of pilots and billions of aliens that he killed? If so, might than not have been the point? A major theme in the later books was that every single life he took weighed on him equally. Without those deaths, the later soul searching would have lost its depth and, for me, would have lost its impact.
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I own about 75% of the books OSC has had published, and if i see one I dont have I tend to buy it. I had 4500 books last time I counted, on a variety of subjects; a biography of Stalin anyone??
Why is having read Capitol a big plus?? I have two copies I think.
I have stopped lending out my copies of the Short story selection entitled Enders Game; people just will not give them back; lost about 4 so far.
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