Has anyone read the Ender's series. I love the moral/ethical problems that he draws up and solves. Also If anyone could post The Parable from the The Xenocide book I'd be forever in debt.
Yes! Our whole family loves the first book which is being made into a movie. The other's that followed weren't quite as good. I've read a lot of his stuff. It's mostly good. Recently I read Magic Street, which is a totally different sort of thing based on A Midsummer's Night Dream on a modern African American street.
I loved the Ender series, though "Xenocide" and "Children of the Mind" weren't as good. He should have stopped after "Speaker for the Dead". However, the rest of his writing, with exceptions, is just so-so. The Homecoming series was...well...I kept hoping it'd end. However, "Maps in a Mirror" was a pretty good collection, and I loved "Treason" and "The Worthing Saga." "Pastwatch" was pretty good too. His horror stuff, like "Treasure Box" and his thriller-type stuff, is nothing to write home about. Lately, Card has struck me as an author that's sold out after a major success, running along the lines of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. He's banking on the fact that he's got a large enough following that he can produce books that aren't very good, like "Empire," and still make a lot of money on it. I've lost a lot of respect for him recently, but I still love the Ender series.
Card just released a new book in the Ender series called "Ender in Exile." It was interesting in that it filled in some blanks of what happened to him between "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead." Not nearly as compelling a story as either title though, but certainly worth a read if you are a fan of the series.
I do love the storyline and moral dilemmas in the Ender series...but I didn't find the characters themselves all that enthralling. Too one dimensional; I really felt it was the epitome of the author telling us about the characters, rather than having the characters show us themselves. I read the whole series to find out what happened, but I didn't really care what became of the characters. Only how the problems were solved. I found "Enchantment" to be a much better read by him. It's more fantasy than sci-fi, but with excellent characters and a really good modern take of the sleeping beauty storyline.
