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Books by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
· published 1986 · last read 2022-08-29
★★★★☆
I prefer this book to the first, more famous one. It's deeper, and more powerful, and doesn't rely on one cheap trick.
Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card
· published 1985 · last read 2020-08-01
★★★★☆
Rereading Ender's game six years later, I found it better than I remembered it. Sure, you'll never see the twist coming the way you saw it the first time, and when I read it the first time I didn't know about OSC's personal politics. But regardless: The book sucked me in, dragged me through a story as relentlessly cruel as it was enjoyable, and then spit me out three hours later, not without delivering a last minute kick straight to the feelings.
Xenocide
by Orson Scott Card
· published 1991 · read 2014-07-01
★★★☆☆
Xenocide is too long, too full, and starts showing where the series goes wrong. But there's still a whole lot of good in there … somewhere.
Ender’s Shadow
by Orson Scott Card
· published 1999 · read 2020-08-04
★★☆☆☆
Re-reading Ender's Game before reading Ender's Shadow – the book that tells the same story, only from the perspective of Bean – was not the best idea. I think I would have liked this book better if I had had only a hazy memory of Ender's Game.