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- Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:51 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 373579
I just checked out Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein and Dune by Frank Herbert. Which one should I read first? Blasphemy ahead; keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times. I'd say it depends on whether you want the better* of the two first or last. I found Stranger in a Strange Land...
- Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:47 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Playing (CD/MP3)
- Replies: 741
- Views: 232893
It's brilliant to me but every time I show it to people they cringe. It's one of those albums that you have to listen over and over again and be in the proper mood for it in order to truly appreciate it. I'm the only person I know who adores the album. If I wanted to recommend a Bruce Dickinson albu...
- Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:12 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 373579
- Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:08 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Playing (CD/MP3)
- Replies: 741
- Views: 232893
- Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:06 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand
- Replies: 1691
- Views: 471811
- Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:04 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Guilty Pleasures and Irrational Irritations
- Replies: 689
- Views: 211705
- Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:49 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Avatar in relation to Enders Game
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13133
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:31 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Things that I hate
- Replies: 3021
- Views: 763033
pick up the left shoe and a roach falls out of it and onto my face. This single phrase is, without a doubt, the nastiest thing I've ever read. I have no idea what I'd do if that happened. Part of me would want to scream, but then it would crawl into my mouth and either choke me to death, or I would...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:36 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Things that I hate
- Replies: 3021
- Views: 763033
Absolutely. They scare the hell out of me. I hope they go extinct. I was opening the door into my shower (adjacent to my bedroom), and I heard scurrying. I turn on the light and this monster-looking thing starts running around like crazy. No exaggeration, that thing must've been an inch and a half ...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:25 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What's your favourite Ender Saga book?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 98323
Bean's view does not introduce us as much as brings a whole new angle to the story of Ender and his biggest moment in life. No. It completely retcons the entire character of Ender, making him into some helpless idiot who gets by on Bean's behind the scenes intelligence. More or less. Which is partl...
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:23 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Things that I hate
- Replies: 3021
- Views: 763033
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:59 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What's your favourite Ender Saga book?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 98323
Would have liked to have seen Ender in Exile on the list though. Might have voted for it instead. I thought I was in the minority in terms of loving that book. The gold bugs were quite riveting, and the seemingly boring storyline of Ender's stay on the colony ship was peppered with great moments th...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:56 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Theme Song
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8098
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:09 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What surprised you the most?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5312
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:03 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Which Character Are You More Like?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9466
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:18 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Which Character Are You More Like?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9466
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:29 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What's your favourite Ender Saga book?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 98323
Bean's view does not introduce us as much as brings a whole new angle to the story of Ender and his biggest moment in life. No. It completely retcons the entire character of Ender, making him into some helpless idiot who gets by on Bean's behind the scenes intelligence. More or less. Which is partl...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:11 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What's your favourite Ender Saga book?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 98323
I know I keep being the only person replying to these threads in the past few hours, but I had to answer this one. I voted Ender's Game without a shadow of a doubt. My order: 1. Ender's Game 2. Speaker for the Dead 3. Shadow of the Giant 4. Ender in Exile 5. Shadow of the Hegemon 6. Xenocide 7. Ende...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:29 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Did Ender's Game make you cry?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 32277
I would say I got teary-eyed or depressed in pretty much every book except A War of Gifts, First Meetings and Ender's Shadow. But I'm kind of a sensitive person. I cry during a lot of my books. I sometimes cry when I think of those books. EG: - When Bean visits Ender and Ender says he's tired of the...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:35 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What surprised you the most?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5312
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:32 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Shadows in Flight
- Replies: 56
- Views: 28547
Re: some of the unresolved issues
Already solved. Unless you mean post-EiE?What happened to the lost child of Bean and Petra?
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:27 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Theme Song
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8098
Two ones for Ender:
"Broken" by Bruce Dickinson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B7xYrxAeUc
and
"Oblivion" by Mastodon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WGNd8QR-U
That last one is a bit far-fetched, but just imagine the entire Ender series while listening to that song.
"Broken" by Bruce Dickinson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B7xYrxAeUc
and
"Oblivion" by Mastodon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WGNd8QR-U
That last one is a bit far-fetched, but just imagine the entire Ender series while listening to that song.
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:22 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What Do You Think About The "Romances" In EnderVer
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12566
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:04 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Have you fallen in love with an E.G. character?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 33383
Definitely Ender. I realized recently that the books that took me the longest time to get through either had minimal or no Ender at all. The Shadow series kind of dragged while I flew through the Ender series. And I personally believe the Shadow series was better, more exciting, a page turner. The d...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:55 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Which character most annoys you?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 150545
I could never be annoyed by Ender. D: He's one of my all-time favourite characters of ANY books (behind only Atticus Finch and Holden Caulfield). Then again, I have friends that hate Jay Gatsby, so anything's possible. I would say Novinha (particularly in Xenocide and Children of the Mind; she had a...
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:45 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender's Guilt
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8992
I voted the third option. As someone who has a soft spot for soldiers, it would kill me to know that I had unwittingly allowed the deaths of so many soldiers who had placed all of their trust upon me. Second place would go to the Formics. As for Stilson and Bonzo, I disliked the way they treated End...