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Summary: mille review continued
Review: stir insight.
The impressive strengths of this text far outweigh the weaknesses. Card is at his best in complicated political situations, and his descriptions of Talavera's motivations in Ferdinand and Isabella's court are memorable. My students and I had lots of fun theorizing about watchers watching other watchers who are unware that they are being watched by a supreme watcher!
I recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys interrogating his or her own belief system.
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Summary: mille review continued
Review: stir insight.
The impressive strenghs of this text far outweigh the weaknesses. Card is at his best in complicated political situations, and his descriptions of Talavera's motivations in Ferdinand and Isabella's court are memorable. My students and I had lots of fun theorizing about watchers watching other watchers who are unware that they are being watched by a supreme watcher!
I recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys interrogating his or her own belief system.
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Summary: An Effort of Humanity and Technology to Provide an Ectopia!
Review: Card in his novel uses technology to find the roots of misery in humans' lives, using history and technology as to attempt to change them. Although the pastwatchers do not belong to any specific religion, they create the perfect world with people who have good intentions. This interesting part of this novel is that his ecotopia is not created by white, wealthy, pious human beings
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Summary: Once again, Card captivates the readerly imagination
Review: As an avid reader of Card's novels, I approached Pastwatch enthusiastically. The slow start tempted me to contrast this novel with others in the Enders, Alvin Maker and Earth series, but I persisted. After completing Pastwatch I adopted it as the text for my Literature and Critical Thinking course; my students' have submitted their reactions in this column.
My own reactions are mixed, but net favorable.
Some of the character's attitude changes were unrealistic to me because they happened so speedily. For instance, we have Kemal acting as a sarcastic and even acid skeptic to the Columbus project becoming contrite in one paragraph due to Tagiri's respect for human free will. Kemal does, however, resume his thorn-in-the-side temperament soon after. I also found Columbus'complete change of heart in Haiti a bit rapid. Even with the inimitable help of See in the Dark. In fact, I do find credibility gaps in all of Card's texts, but I do not consider them necessarily harmful. Often these gaps stir
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Summary: A lesson in morality for those who would be gods.
Review: Pastwatch is a compelling novel in its ability to draw the reader in and make the characters come to life. The concept of time travel has always intrigued me, and this book addresses it in an unconventional way. The characters struggle with countless moral dilemmas and ethical questions, causing the reader to become intensely concerned about the outcome. The climax comes at the end of a long crescendo, resulting from a reasonably unpredictable plot, although the conclusion did seem a bit too much like a fairy tale (I would have liked to see things end differently). It's well worth the read, all the same
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: I found Orson Scott Card's novel Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus intriguing and thought provoking. It never occurred to me that changing the past could possibly create a better future. Card toys with the idea of the morality aspect of such an alteration of history and he invents very powerful characters to make the story believable. Overall I enjoyed the book, but at times it was a little too technical to follow
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Summary: Interesting view of Columbus and his effect on the future
Review: A extrememly thought out Science fiction book. Card brings about many underlining issues in today's society through the actions of his characters. Card deals with issues such as: the right or wrong of intervening with the past in order to improve the future, the many forms and interpretations of God, and the issues of discrimmination. This book has many memerable characters who are quite unimportant at the beginning but who become vital to the success of Pastwatch's mission. The characters are full of individuality, personality and morality... in other words no two characters are alike and each is extrememly interesting.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read an intriguing novel with losts of action, twists, and many underlining ideas that the reader can analyze to infinite proportions.
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Summary: Change the past, Destroy the present, Improve the future.
Review: Slow at the beginning, but Card picks up the pace. He successfully weaves history with science fiction in a novel that is suspensful, and purposeful in revealing the moral dilemna of changing the past. Card utilizes twists and turns that will make you dizzy. There is never a dull moment with so many different perspectives. You view the story from the past, the future, and through different peoples eyes. Only criticism is that eveything ends too neatly, without consequences. Overall, a fast read that makes you think
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Summary: Card's most interesting work to date
Review: What do you think is the worst thing humans have done in the past? Would it be human sacrifice or slavery?
Now imagine you could go back and set it right. Would you be willing to pay the price?
O. S. C gets it right in this book. The story really stops you in your tracks and makes you think about a "what-if" world. I really enjoyed this one and would recommend it to anyone
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Summary: What's wrong with Card?
Review: I adore Orson Scott Card so I could not wait to get my hands on this book. But when I had wolfed it down I felt utterly cheated. The theme is enchanting enough; a team of brilliant scientists goes back in history to stop Christopher Columbus. However, he develops this team using an entire crew of boring, flat characters. Card is usually a mastermind when it comes to creating intriguing personalities; not so this time. They are all brilliant and (after a few pages) almost without emotion. The natives think the timetravellers are gods and that's exactly how they behave. Never a moment doubt or real interaction; just being enigmatic and busy saving the world. Please, Mr. Card, you can do better than this
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