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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 05 (discuss.online)
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Had a pretty busy work week, hardly got time to read anything. So still on The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reading the “Ender’s Shadow” series after finishing Ender’s Game.

Card is… something else. I’m on Shadow Puppets now, and while the previous books were good, his Mormonism is seriously showing in this one, with Petra being all baby crazy despite the fact they’re literally young teenagers.

It was weird to me finding out about Card’s anti-gay and Mormon views considering there were some rather homoerotic undertones to portions of Ender’s Game (or maybe I’m reading too much into it). Plus all the IVF and genetic manipulation stuff in the Shadow series. Though admittedly, the later Ender books (Children of the Mind, Xenocide) are utterly batshit, like he was having a mental wank.

I grew up in a boarding school and Ender’s Game really resonated with me when I was younger. Shame the author is an asshole. “Never meet your heroes” and all that.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I can't read Card's stuff anymore. The 3rd and 4th Game books got real weird, and I only finished them because I didn't have much else to read. The first Shadow book about Bean was pretty decent, but it was mostly a retelling of Game from another perspective instead of a new story.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    The Shadow series covers what happens on Earth after the events at battle school as all kinds of conflict breaks out globally, but it mostly centers on Bean , Petra, and Achilles, along with Peter Wiggin taking on a leadership role.

    But a lot of it is just weird, and much like how the later Ender books go batshit, the later Shadow books involve Bean’s gigantism and sending his descendants into space.

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