peter looked exactly like i imagined him, but valentine looked absolutely nothing like i thought she would. she's too pretty. did you guys see the samples for Bean in Rotterdam? i like the style much more, although maybe the gritty style fits with the topic, just like the slick presentation of ender...

SPOILER for those who haven't read SotD or Xenocide. The fact that the computer found a current picture of Peter, and that it was an audience of Peters that cheered Ender on when he "won" the game, was the building of the bridge between Ender and the Hive Queen. I think, anyway...these are...

I'm not sure if this is heresy or not, but I think First Impressions is unnecessary.

I've been boxing for the past three years or so, and the key, my coach says, to a thorough work out (as opposed to formal "training" that focuses on boxing skills: plyometrics, speed skills, foot work, etc) is muscle progression. That is, working biceps, triceps, delts, lats, etc. in incre...

In terms of human forgiveness (that is, the kind that doesn't involve deities), it is the ACT of forgiving that is most important. Whether or not the "perpetrator" ever knows what you think about him/her, it is inside ourselves that forgiveness has the greatest power. Changing our own ment...

Good fiction, I think, is hyperbole, is magnification of true things. So, I think, instead of having to wait for someone to up and DIE to try and understand what their life was about, I think we can Speak everyday, we should strive to see the truth of a person while we can still be a part of the liv...

Hello, Philoticweb. I'm new here, but not new to the Ender saga. I think that Peter and Valentine can't be construed as "better" or "worse" than Ender mainly because they aren't the focal point of the novel. Granted, their characters become much more dynamic as the books progress...