Forum Overview :: Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark :: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine.

[quote name="Arbit"][quote name="Mischief Maker"]Am I the only person who hated Ender's Game? It's such a boring story. "Special" kid alternates between playing shitty video games and beating his schoolyard tormenters to death. The last video game he plays turns out to be real. The end. It's like Dominic Deegan, but with a dystopian future where religion is outlawed, (but everyone falls to their knees and prays when the chips are down) in place of the justifiable rape. *SNORE*[/quote] The biggest thing that annoyed me (besides the ending being obvious as hell and OSC being a humongous douchebag in his foreward): how the fuck did the insect people not realize that humans were sentient? You can't produce and operate spaceships by accident. And why did it require <i>two</i> invasions to figure it out? Why did it require any invasions at all? He tries to make the reader sympathetic to the insect people ("buggers", another thing to hate) and lament humanity's terrible, rash decision to wipe them out but, logically, they gave every appearance of being a bunch of unrepentant genocidal motherfuckers. But instead, they were just incredibly super slow on the uptake. Too bad, so sad! *explodes your planet* And holy shit, that foreward. Pages and pages of self-congratulation, deriding his critics and mentioning that he went Brigham Young University. Are you perhaps MORMON, Mr. Card? Maybe if you mention Utah and BYU a couple hundred more times we would get it. He addresses the complaint (from child psychologists and teachers) that real children don't act and talk the way they do in his book by saying that, well, he was a ostracized super genius child and that's how <I>he</I> talked and acted, so that's how it is. Self-insertion fantasy, ahoy! It's straight up masturbation fodder for awkward teens that fancy themselves misunderstood geniuses and a spacesuit and laser pistol away from being the savior of humanity. [quote]<a href="http://www.ender.com/ender/">The appeal of Ender's Game is hard to explain. One of my personal thoughts is that people who love the book can really identify with Ender. When I read Ender's Game, I felt as if I was Ender. He is a child who is way above the level of all the other children in his school. He finds school extremely boring because he is never challenged (something a LOT of gifted and talented children identify with.)</a>[/quote]