I couldn’t find a thread on this, but in case I missed it (and I guess the film was announced a while ago) …
… THEY’RE MAKING A FREAKING MOVIE OUT OF THIS!!!
Very, very excited.
Cool
That is one of the best books ever. I hope they do not screw it up.
In the unlikely event that people in this thread haven’t also read Ender’s Shadow, it’s also excellent. (not sure I would recommend the sequels to either though, but that’s just me)
Card also blessed us with this related short story. Enjoy.
Mazer in Prison - http://naruto.forum0.info/mazerinprison-h8.htm
[quote]chillain wrote:
In the unlikely event that people in this thread haven’t also read Ender’s Shadow, it’s also excellent. (not sure I would recommend the sequels to either though, but that’s just me)
Card also blessed us with this related short story. Enjoy.
Mazer in Prison - http://naruto.forum0.info/mazerinprison-h8.htm
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IMO the sequal to Ender’s Game “Speaker for the Dead” is the best book in the series.
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
That is one of the best books ever. I hope they do not screw it up.[/quote]
I loved the book Starship Troopers and look what happened to it.
james
According to IMDB Harrison Ford is playing Graff…
I read the Enders books in middle school…I’m a junior in college now and occasionally, I still think about them. Great series, really makes you think.
I’ve only read the first book. For some reason, I was happy where the story “ended” and haven’t picked up the sequels. Worth a read?
And Ben Kingsley as Mazer - perfect, I think.
I picked this book up about 2 months ago and I put it down to read A Dance with Dragons and haven’t picked it back up yet.
It was pretty good, but I’m on about page 175 and he seems o have gone into that big zero G training sphere about 500 fucking times already.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I picked this book up about 2 months ago and I put it down to read A Dance with Dragons and haven’t picked it back up yet.
It was pretty good, but I’m on about page 175 and he seems o have gone into that big zero G training sphere about 500 fucking times already.[/quote]
Gets better. Much better.
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
That is one of the best books ever. I hope they do not screw it up.[/quote]
I loved the book Starship Troopers and look what happened to it.
james
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As I understand it, that movie was never actually based on the book. They had a scifi script and they added the title and changed some of the characters to resemble those from the book, but it was never actually an adaptation.
I’m looking at the imdb page, and the kid from Hugo is going to play Ender. They guy who directed the Wolverine movie is the screenwriter/director.
[quote]Magicpunch wrote:
I’ve only read the first book. For some reason, I was happy where the story “ended” and haven’t picked up the sequels. Worth a read?
And Ben Kingsley as Mazer - perfect, I think.[/quote]
The sequel is definitely a different type of book. Much more focused on relationships rather with very little violence. However, it is very good IMO.
I must add that with all the talk about Orson Scott Card being against gay marriage and against homosexuality it sure is strange how many times the boys that are supposed to 8 or 9 or so are mentioned as being completely nude.
One character even holds an iPad-like screen in front of his own nude crotch and shows everyone a picture of a bigger dick flapping around.
[quote]OBoile wrote:
IMO the sequal to Ender’s Game “Speaker for the Dead” is the best book in the series.[/quote]
Thanks for the rec. I had actually read “Ender in Exile” and not this title.
Just picked this up from public library along with “Starship Troopers.” Had no idea that was even a book, pretty darn entertaining so far…
[quote]The Greek wrote:
I read the Enders books in middle school…I’m a junior in college now and occasionally, I still think about them. Great series, really makes you think. [/quote]
Bean was beginning to warm to the discussion. “The real problem is that unlike Vauban, we have only one strong point worth defending – Earth. And the enemy is not limited to a primary direction of approach. He could come from anywhere. From anywhere all at once. So we run into the classic problem of defense, cubed. The farther out you deploy your defenses, the more of them you have to have, and if your resources are limited, you soon have more fortifications than you can man. What good are bases on moons of Jupiter or Saturn or Neptune, when the enemy doesn’t even have to come in on the plane of the ecliptic? He can bypass all our fortifications. The way Nimitz and MacArthur used two-dimensional island hopping against the defense in depth of the Japanese in World War II. Only our enemy can work in three-dimensions. Therefore we cannot possibly maintain defense in depth. Our only defense is early detection and single massed force…”
… “So,” said Dimak, “what’s your solution?”
Solution? What did Dimak think Bean was? I’m thinking about how to get control of the situation here in Battle School, not how to save the world! “I don’t think there is a solution,” said Bean, buying time again. But then, having said it, he began to believe it. “There’s no point in trying to defend Earth at all. In fact, unless they have some defensive device we don’t know about, like some way of putting an invisible shield around a planet or something, the enemy is just as vulnerable. So the only strategy that makes any sense at all is an all-out attack…”
(from Ender’s Shadow)