MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2543 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) RE: other books by "Patti Paonessa" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:47:39 -0600 From: "Patti Paonessa" To: Subject: RE: other books Message-ID: I agree that the Ender series is a great set of books. My mother read them, lent them to me, I bought them and now my son is reading them. He loves to read the same kind of books as my mother and I. It is great to have three generations talking together about the books we read. Patti -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk [mailto:mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk]On Behalf Of Natetoact-+AT+-aol.com Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:35 AM To: pattip9001-+AT+-mediaone.net Subject: Re: other books --part1_98.11ec187e.27e31705_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hvae to say that I've only gotten through the Hobbit, and that was in 7th grade... I could see merit in it, but it was also hard for an ADD child to sit through, even a gifted reading ADD child. :O) on that note, Ender's Game and all the other books in that series (by Orson Scott Card) are WONDERFUL sci-fi stories, with the most honest characters I've ever read, considering Ender's Game is about a boy that starts the book about 5 yrs old... I've talked to people (from the average person to the gifted) who identify so strongly with Ender that they find themselves hating his enemies right along with him, as did I, to be honest. The rest of the books are good... Speaker for the Dead, I got through, but it's much slower, and more focused, as is Xenocide, although the pacing in that one is much better. And, even if you don't particularly like those two, read them so you can understand Children of the Mind, the last book that focuses on Ender's Life. There is a parallel sequel, Ender's Shadow, that is about one of the students that Ender works with, and also Shadow of the Hegemon, about another of the students. They are all beautiful works, and should be read. That being said, happy, heart-shaped sheep to everyone! Nathyn "Oh, well. She's dead. Let's move on, shall we?"- Willy Wonka --part1_98.11ec187e.27e31705_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hvae to say that I've only gotten through the Hobbit, and that was in 7th
grade... I could see merit in it, but it was also hard for an ADD child to
sit through, even a gifted reading ADD child. :O) on that note, Ender's Game
and all the other books in that series (by Orson Scott Card) are WONDERFUL
sci-fi stories, with the most honest characters I've ever read, considering
Ender's Game is about a boy that starts the book about 5 yrs old... I've
talked to people (from the average person to the gifted) who identify so
strongly with Ender that they find themselves hating his enemies right along
with him, as did I, to be honest. The rest of the books are good... Speaker
for the Dead, I got through, but it's much slower, and more focused, as is
Xenocide, although the pacing in that one is much better. And, even if you
don't particularly like those two, read them so you can understand Children
of the Mind, the last book that focuses on Ender's Life. There is a parallel
sequel, Ender's Shadow, that is about one of the students that Ender works
with, and also Shadow of the Hegemon, about another of the students. They are
all beautiful works,
and should be read.

That being said, happy, heart-shaped sheep to everyone!
Nathyn
"Oh, well. She's dead. Let's move on, shall we?"- Willy Wonka --part1_98.11ec187e.27e31705_boundary-- ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2543 **********************************