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Summary: Completes the downward spiral of Ender begun in Xenocide
Review: Card's preaching in his most recent works (see Pastwatch) has precluded character development. Ender Wiggins becomes a one-dimensional character even if you include the "personalities" of young Val and Peter. The rest of the characters fare even worse. The plot progresses at a glacial pace until the last few pages and the resolution is only sleight of hand.
After the disappointment of Xenocide, I hoped for a return to the vitality of Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. What we got was more "magic" solutions to problems faced by whining, self-absorbed characters. (Yes, I'm aware that technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced, but there were too many rabbits pulled from the same hat to generate a coherent, much less enjoyable, story.) Even though I am a fan of Card's work, I can't recommend this book to anyone other than an unrepentent SciFi diehard (or similarly afflicted ramen)
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Summary: A wonderful book that would make anyone stop and think.
Review: Before I started reading "Children of the Mind", I would almost never read. I read boring books when I did read, often classics like Charles Dickens that made me incredibly bored. I was in the middle of "The Caine Mutiny" but I had left it in the school building, so I started reading "Children of the Mind", a book that had been gathering dust on my bookshelf for almost a year. I was hooked. I abandoned the Caine and read the book with god speed. I am now an avid reader and I read Orson Scott Card frequently. You would like Orson Scott Card just as much. I know.
Orson Scott Card's book "Children of the Mind" is a masterpeice. When I finished this book, I was very disapointed. I was done with the Ender Series and I didn't have another one of Orson Scott Card's books to read. I loved the book so much, I immediately went to the library and got Lovelock, another one of his books. His ideas that he put in this book, like the computer lifeform Jane, or Peter and Valentine, is unparalleled by any other book by another author. I would highly suggest reading this book and the rest of the Ender saga, including Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide. I loved all of the books of his that I have read, and it is my belief that anyone who reads this book, will instantly be a follower of Cardography.This book is worth every cent of the price and more.
If you saw the movie that came out a little while ago called "Picture Perfect" you would remember the mustard company. they said that if the target consumer would try Gildstiens mustard, they would buy more, because it was good mustard but not many people knew about them. It is the same story with Orson Scott Card. His writing can top any of the writers that you know about.
It is my belief that Orson Scott Card is the next George Orwell. He is an excellent author who works hard and deserves every penny of the money he earns
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Summary: Wonderful end , for even more wonderful saga.
Review: Children of the mind , although trying to close to
many of the marvelous dilemas concerning the deep and thoughtful character Andrew Wiggin , is a very
intresting thoughs-trigger and a very good end for
a saga which I concern to be one of the best Sci-fi books ever.
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Summary: Who's writing this book
Review: i liked it, it wasn't what I expected but then it's not my vision it's the authors for me to interpret. Ask yourself if books always turn out the way the reader wants then who is actually writing.
Deep thought - common sense
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Summary: a little disappointing, but still good
Review: Children of the Mind, the last (?) book in the series, also happens to be the weakest. It's still worth reading, and is a very good book, but compared to Ender's Game, it's only mediocre. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book, but after reading a book as fantastic as Ender's Game, it's a bit of a disappointment. It lacks the intensity and excitement that kept me reading in his other books. Also if it really is the conclusion, it's not much of one, because it doesn't really wrap up the series. Despite all this, I truly enjoyed it, and it was a very good read
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Summary: Too many miracles....
Review: Children of the Mind read similarly to the stories I wrote in 2nd grade. Though more sophisticated, it had the same rambling tone, as if the author didn't quite know where to take it, and wrote the story while searching for a way out. In doing so, the story became too unbelievable, to be enjoyable. There were too many miracles, too many near deaths, too many almost destructions. Every time Card couldn't think of a way to get himself out of a tight situation, a new "miracle of science" was discovered, making the story a winding tale. The question is raised: Is it fair to give a lightsaber to a man facing lions?
The ending left you hanging, but I, for one, have no desire to learn or read more. I have a feeling this was not meant as the end of a series, but the beginning of a new saga. A saga that may draw in others, but will continue to destroy the perfection of the original, Ender's Game
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Summary: A worthy end to the saga, but not to Ender.
Review: After getting to the end of Xenocide, I lost interest in Orson Scott Card and his novels completely. Children of the Mind has renewed my faith and ended a sci-fi series which has secured its place at the level of Asimov's Foundation series. One can almost excuse the poorly thought out ending of Xenocide with this well thought out and executed ending of the Ender series. My only complaints are Ender's small part and anti-climatic exit in a saga that placed him so highly and it's inability to seperate the unrealistic, mystic aspect brought on in Xenocide with the genuine Sci-Fi magic that made the first two novels in the series classics of the genre.
However, if you read Ender's Game and are wondering whether to continue through the series, the answer is a definite yes.
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Summary: Excellent conclusion to the Ender Saga.
Review: I'm just sorry that it's over. Card has created a wonderful world full of equally wonderful and unforgettable characters
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Summary: A poor ending to a great story
Review: I can't tell you how dissapointed I was in this book. It was not what I have come to expect from Orson Scott Card. Many authors take a concept to the point where they just fill pages with words (i.e. Piers Anthony & his Xanth tales), but I expected more from this author. I know Card is capable of better work Treason, and the entire Alvin Maker series are a testament to that, but this last book in the Ender Wiggins saga is not in the same class as his other works. My best advice is to ignore this book and enjoy the Ender Wiggins Trilogy
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Summary: The worst crash and burn to a series EVER!
Review: A subplot of this last book is that Ender, having overlived his usefulness, finds himself slowly wasting away into a bland, lifeless shadow of his once radiant self. A better analogy for this book there will never be.
My first regrets about having bought Children came about page 25, when I realised that the dialog up to that point had consistd entirely of whining and bickering. I wish I could find some redeeming quality to the last chapter in Ender's life, but I can't. Rest in peace Ender Wiggin
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