This is a great (old) thread! Thanks for bumping it!
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Originally Posted by bigmoney
Ender's Game is great, but IMHO it's better if you read it as a young adult. I re-read it a couple of years ago and found it kinda silly sometimes. There's a new book in the series just released, Ender in Exile, I read half of it but found it boring, again, great for a teenager but not so engaging for a 35-yo who has been reading hard sci-fi for 20 years.
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I originally read Ender's Game sometime in high school, and I still enjoy it. It's my ultimate comfort book that I can always pick up and put down whenever I want.
I tried to read Ender in Exile earlier this year, and I found that not worthy for consumption by
anyone. As a gauge, I'm about 10 years younger than you. I maybe got 1/4 of the way through it (I usually devour anything by OSC, so this is unusual) and was just fed up with the whole "you're not worth anything unless you make babies" culture. And it really didn't help that I had read some of the chapters before in his Interactive Medicine Show vol 1 book. I was reading along thinking "oh my god, I swear I've read this before!", which made it that much more boring.