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Summary: Really weird mix.
Review: I found the book to be very strange. I would have given it five stars in the beginning, but I think later Card puts in too much sexuality, like many writers tend to do, even the good ones. The book would make an awfully gross movie. However, as with most of Card's books, after I started reading it I could not stop. Well, that's basically my opinion.
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Summary: Well...
Review: I just read this book a little while ago. I absolutely love Card's books, but I must say, this one was extremely disapointing. I did appreciate a lot of it, but I found it too gross to be worth reading. It was absolutely gross and nasty. Of course, once I pick a book up, I can't put it down. I also didn't find it as thought provoking as some of his other books, although it wasn't that bad. The ending wasn't satisfying, it sort of left you hanging, like there was no conclusion...
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Summary: Subpar Card fantasy with child sexual abuse
Review: I like Card, and I hated Wyrms. The plot hangs on the hero's raping a barely postpubescent girl in public in order to become heir to her father's throne. The plot goes downhill from there. This book brings out Card's abused-child motif over and over again; it's really difficult to read, and I don't think the payoff makes it worthwhile.
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Summary: Gruesome.
Review: I like some of Card's other books so much I feel bad complaining about this one. But I hated this book so much that I couldn't read anything by Card for two years because the "flavor" of his writing reminded me of "Wyrms." I don't think I've ever had this strong of a negative reaction to a book; the strength of my reaction may say something positive about the book, but all I can say is, I hated it. I loved Ender's Game, and a lot of other stuff Card has written, but this book gave me nightmares. Really
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Summary: One of the greatest Card's novel
Review: I love the heroin, and the story is awesome. There is almost too much ideas for such a short book...
Card creates a fascinating new world where nothing is exactly what it seems... Definitely
one of the best read i've ever had...
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Summary: Fear, Hope, Phobia, Magic
Review: I originally read this book under the gun in high school, to make up for something I did not do. However, it was like throwing Brer Rabbit into the brambles!Being my second OCD book (Seventh Son was my first), I had no predetermined expectations of the man's writing style. Being young, I had not the experience to see the parallels with Dune and other similar works. So the first reading was sheer joy...until the end. Many books I feel good after I read them. With Wyrms I felt...unbalanced. I have since read the book again, and drawn the parallels, and experienced his other work. And in the end, I still feel unbalanced. Card makes a statement about human nature that is ambiguous, using this novel as an allegory to the inner reaches of everyone's hearts. This book is excellent not only as a story for the sake of a story, but as a philisophical, somewhat religious, and extremely moral exploration into your own heart and soul. If you haven't read it, you'd better soon...
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I'm not a Card sycophant, but every time I read one of his books I'm blown away. The complexity of the stories is mind-boggling. Even the simplest stories ends up with heavy philosophical thought. I actually had to stop reading and think about the concepts presented. Not a bad story either. Card gives epic fantasy a shot.
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Summary: great read
Review: I'm only 14, but I have read a lot of OSC's stuff, so I have a little knowledge upon which to base my opinion. As I am young yet, I do not know everything there is to know about book reviews and stuff, but I shall do the best I can... I thought this book was excellent because it goes into the subject of human nature forthrightly, subtly explains it, and lets you decide what you think about the human race at the end. I hate how sometimes authors tell you what to think. Not so in this book. The characters were well formed, and there was a good twist near the end that completely threw the reader for a loop. I will NOT spoil the ending! Although the end was somewhat gruesome, I liked it because it was unexpected. It was unexpected because in most books, the end is supposed to be not what you think it's going to be. The ending for Wyrms is unexpected in that it's not like other books.
Did I make any sense? It also yes, leaves you hanging, but that can be a good thing, and is in this case. I also like how OSC binds in how people would act without any emotions or feelings, but only desires (the heads). Few authors I have read so far are willing to just say what they think about the human nature in their books, for fear that they will not sell, or that it will taint their reputation. Read this book, if not for the underlying philosophies, then for the great plot and ideas. When you do read it, please be open minded in the end--I almost guarantee you'll like it better that way.
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Summary: Acolyte of the Cult of Card
Review: I've been interested in Card's books for years. He's the one author I avidly follow. I like his writings for their readability, and my life story bears many resemblances to his. But what I like most is his underlying philosophy. Not what he says his philosophy is, in his autobiographical materials. But what his shows us it is through his writing. Most of Card's novel-length writing revolves around one issue: free will. How people use, what it is, why good people use it to make good decisions and bad decisions, and how bad people use it to make good decisions and bad decisions. Interrelated with this topic is the idea of information, and how having it or not having it leads (causes?) us to act in ways that otherwise we would not, in ways that go against our better judgment. Card does his best expounding free will when he doesn't approach it too directly. I think Will's discourse falls short in Wyrms because Card tried a frontal assault on the issue, sort of giving us an a priori analysis. On the other hand, Card creates situations that give us profound insights into free will and faulty human understanding in an a posteriori analysis through the stories of Pipo, Libo and the Piggies and Novinha and Marcão in "Speaker For the Dead." I have yet to come across another author in any genre, that compares to Card on this level.
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Summary: Damn fine book!
Review: I've been reading SF for 35 years and this is the kind of stuff that keeps me reading it.
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