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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Xenocide, from the ender series. Enders game was good. Speaker was OK I guess. Ender was a whiny bitch the entire time but the descolada mystery was interesting. Now that's solved and he's still a whiny bitch and then he just solves basically every single problem with his super ai that can do magical space/time bullshit. The worst deus ex machina I have ever laid eyes on. I physically threw the book across the room at one point. I hate leaving books unfinished, so I slogged through the rest at like 5 pages per sitting, rolling my eyes out of my head the whole time.

I did not finish children of the mind.

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought 'Children of the mind' was good, could have been merged with Xenocide.

Whatever you do, stay away from 'The Last Shadow'. What a terrible way to finish a series.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Only read Enders shadow and it was decent. Made me realize that ender was a little bitch all along and not when he left.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Anything with Ender after the first book is terrible. But the series that sticks with the happenings on earth after Enders Game is pretty good. I especially like the book that has Bean from a child through battle school.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have to rank Children of the Mind as one of the just plain weirdest books I've ever read. Just when I thought it couldn't get weirder, Orson Scott Card manages to throw something else at you. After I finished Children of the Mind, I decided at that point I was going to move onto some other book series.

I'll still recommend Ender's Game as that's a classic, but I wouldn't bother with the sequels.