Back in the Enderverse.
Feb. 17th, 2008 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenI just finished reading Speaker for the Dead, which I basically haven't been able to put down since around 3am last night. (I did manage to drag myself away for a few hours of sleep around 7am, and played a bit of FF6 this afternoon, so it wasn't completely continuous. I mean, I'm a slow reader, but not that slow.)
I don't really have much to say at the moment -- it'll take a little while for it all to sink in. But I can say, "Wow." And, "Why did I wait so long to read the Ender sequels?"
Maybe one reason is that, to the extent I can generalize from reading two of his books, Orson Scott Card's novels include such a painful blend of tragedy. I guess they pretty much are tragedies, in a way, though Ender's Game much more so than Speaker for the Dead. But like Ender's Game, the story still feels so unsettled -- over, but not really ended. It continues in Xenocide, I suppose, but I'm not sure how eager I am to start on that right away.
And so much for going through the Dragon's Den (the new bonus dungeon in Final Fantasy VI Advance) this long weekend. I took a quick look at a map, and I think it's probably better that I focus on work for the next two days. (Normally I'd feel guilty about looking at a dungeon map, but the Dragon's Den is so huge I don't get much out of staring at it anyway.)
I don't really have much to say at the moment -- it'll take a little while for it all to sink in. But I can say, "Wow." And, "Why did I wait so long to read the Ender sequels?"
Maybe one reason is that, to the extent I can generalize from reading two of his books, Orson Scott Card's novels include such a painful blend of tragedy. I guess they pretty much are tragedies, in a way, though Ender's Game much more so than Speaker for the Dead. But like Ender's Game, the story still feels so unsettled -- over, but not really ended. It continues in Xenocide, I suppose, but I'm not sure how eager I am to start on that right away.
And so much for going through the Dragon's Den (the new bonus dungeon in Final Fantasy VI Advance) this long weekend. I took a quick look at a map, and I think it's probably better that I focus on work for the next two days. (Normally I'd feel guilty about looking at a dungeon map, but the Dragon's Den is so huge I don't get much out of staring at it anyway.)
