Speaker for the Dead : Author's Definitive Edition

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Summary: A great sequel to a great book.
Review: This book which is the sequel to Ender's Game and the second in the series of four, is an excellent piece of writing. Orson Scot Card definitely has the talent for great sc-fi writing. Read Ender's Game first then follow up with this book.

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Summary: Not as good as Ender's Game, but okay
Review: I read this book mostly because the end of Ender's Game left me hanging. I liked it, but not quite as much as Ender's Game. I don't really think that even the speaking of Marcao's death really had a sudden dramatic effect equivalent to similar moments in Ender's Game. The thing I liked the most was the xenologers and xenobiologists trying to determine if the piggies were sentient or not, and why. But the tone of the book had a religious overtone that I could've done without. And Novhina seemed almost ridiculously self-accusatory at times. Overall, though, not too bad.

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Summary: UGH!!!!!
Review: Ender's Game is me and my best freinds favorite book ever. This book, however, was unbearably atrocious. There were maybe three sentences with the faintest hint of some remote, indirect quality. The only thing good about this book is that without it, the best book ever would not exist in the form of a novel/Novella, simply a series of stories in Analog SF magazine.

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Summary: Wonder what happened after Ender grew up?
Review: Well this is a great sequel, part II of the 3-book series. Just like Ender's Game, this book is also pretty hard to put down. Unfortunately, it's longer so I couldn't read it in one sitting like I did with Ender's Game. It gives you that same feeling, like you have to know what's coming next; but I have to say it wasn't as amazing as Ender's Game. Still, once you read Ender's Game you HAVE to read this and Xenocide, just to find out what the heck happened. So go ahead and read this book, it'll be worth your time!

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Summary: An excellent series; sufficently futuristic, involving
Review: An excellent series--but you must read the entire set; Speaker for the Dead will be incomplete without the prehistory. Well written, and innovative, as aways Card gives us a unique and detailed look into our possible future.

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Summary: Ender wiggin learns the secret and gains love from milagre
Review: This book was SO good!It was very emotianal and thoughtful.I just fiished it about 15 minutes ago.I loved it This and " Ender's Game" are certainly my two favorite books ever.I f you haven't read this amazing, compelling and oddly cool novel, you'd better1 I can't wait to read "XENOCIDE"!

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Summary: The best in the ENDER series!
Review: All I can say is that this book was the best of the series. Ender's Game was very good, but Orson Scott Card took this novel to the next level. Ender's Game was a book that was really for fun, Speaker for the Dead has you think about ethics and other issues.

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Summary: A letdown
Review: Though well-written, this book is just a little too preachy and long-winded for my taste. I think it may been better as a short story. Though I really love a lot of Card's work, methinks I have detected a pattern, or at least a recurring moral theme, that seems to run through virtually every book or series he writes. This theme involves the issue of genocide. It appears in Treason, where Mueller contemplates the extinction of the Andersons, in the Alvin Maker series, where the extinction of the Prophet's followers raises the same issues, in Ender's Game, where the extinction of the bugs is the issue, and in Speaker for the Dead, with the contemplated genocide of the piggies and descolada. By Speaker for the Dead, I got tired of revisiting this same issue and it unfortunately continues in the next books in the series. Not recommended.

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Summary: Not as good as "Ender's Game", but it's still O.S.Card...
Review: This book is the sequel of the amazing book "Ender's Game". It is also very differant from the first book. Card has a remarkable skill for dialog and detail, and his characters are believable, but in this book, the plot is somewhat expected and at times too incredible even for an SF story. Still a good read, though.

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Summary: Not as good as Ender's Game
Review: The writing becomes dull and overly religious. Ender's Game's plot was much more interesting. I loved Ender's Game and really wanted to read this book but it was very dissapointing.