Quote:
Originally Posted by Rain Man
I read this book, but I never quite understood why it was so well regarded. I think there are better scifi books out there.
Give me a movie version of Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournelle, for example. Now that would be a movie.
|
Whenever it comes to any text there will always be an impossibility of reaching a consensus of what is "good", "great", or "better". One of the reasons why I think Ender's Game was so well received is because it transcends the genre of science fiction. It's not as artfully written as Neuromancer, but I think the themes present within EG allow for a level of discussion and analysis that many pieces of popular fiction don't.
I've actually taught it in an American Lit course in the past.
__________________
"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
|