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Old 12-19-2017, 08:55 AM   #136
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There is a reason that all of the tor.com free ebookclub books were the the first of a series (except for one, but it was book 2 and book 1 was on sale at the same time). Getting someone to read one of an author’s books is a very effective marketing strategy for authors. On the writing excuses podcast, they have said the best thing you can do to support authors is lend someone one of their books.
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Old 12-19-2017, 09:35 PM   #137
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I have to jump in and say that most samples do not give you enough of the book to decide is like it or not.
That reminds me of a sample I got from Amazon. For "Ender's Game". Yeah, the famous one that everybody has probably read (except me). I downloaded the sample, and it was a bunch of pages of "Why did I write this book? Thanks, Mom and Dad." And other trivia. I finally scrolled far enough to find the real start of the book. And then the sample ended. Yeah, right there on page one of the actual book. I started laughing. I might have to go back and re-download the sample to see if it is still this way.
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Old 12-20-2017, 12:29 AM   #138
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That reminds me of a sample I got from Amazon. For "Ender's Game". Yeah, the famous one that everybody has probably read (except me). I downloaded the sample, and it was a bunch of pages of "Why did I write this book? Thanks, Mom and Dad." And other trivia. I finally scrolled far enough to find the real start of the book. And then the sample ended. Yeah, right there on page one of the actual book. I started laughing. I might have to go back and re-download the sample to see if it is still this way.
You are not the only one that hasn't read it.
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Old 12-20-2017, 01:41 AM   #139
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To go further off-topic, I read and enjoyed Ender's Game as well as many of Card's other books. However, enjoyable as Ender's Game was, I am quite surprised at the extent to which some people have gone overboard for it. I thought the second book in the series, Speaker for the Dead, was outstanding and far superior to Ender's Game.
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Old 12-20-2017, 05:25 AM   #140
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The full cast audiobook of Ender's Game is excellent. Well worth listening to.
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Old 12-20-2017, 07:06 PM   #141
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I thought the second book in the series, Speaker for the Dead, was outstanding and far superior to Ender's Game.
That's actually a fairly common sentiment.

For me, Ender's Game was amazing in part due to reading it when I was 12. I doubt it would have had the same impact on me as an adult.
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Old 12-21-2017, 10:57 AM   #142
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For me, Ender's Game was amazing in part due to reading it when I was 12. I doubt it would have had the same impact on me as an adult.
Ah, 12. The golden age of science fiction.
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