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Summary: Worth the effort.
Review: This was a tough read for me. I tend to deplore short stories and was disappointed at the short-stories-cobbled-into-a-book feel. However, I have to agree with some of the other reviewers here that the message is simply the best answer to the question of how a good God could allow evil and pain to exist on earth that I have ever seen. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Awesome idea!
Review: At the beginning this book was sort of like Ender's Game with Jason's adventures in Capitol. A very different Sci-fi story. I think every Card book revolutanizes science fiction. A lot of ideas about humanity that people won't want to admit. The only thing I didn't like about this book was the way it was set up by a bunch of short stories. But now that I think about it, there wasn't a much better way he could have written it. Card prevails again!
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Summary: The Best of the Best!
Review: They don't come any better than this...this book contains so many truths about humanity that we don't want to deal with. After you read it you will never see society in the same way again.. Or religion for that matter. The book contains the most obvious truth that most Christian writers of this day and age ignore... we endure suffering NOT so we can go to heaven, but because without suffering there can be no joy - they are flip sides of the same coin. Pain is the finest gift a God can give..without it we never reach our potential.
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Summary: card is an addiction
Review: I once went to an AA meeting to support a friend. during the meeting they spoke of people with an addiction being unable to fuction well without their fix and the more they have the more they need. by the end of the meeting I new that I was addicted to orson scott cards books. I even chanllange my self on how long I can go without one. when I read a book by card very little in the world has more importance than getting to the next page and when I am done I fear to pick up the next book I think, what if it is not as good (never happend) what if its better (usually is) what if I finish all the card stories (read them again). this book and all the card books are simply the ultimate and if you dont believe me try one kid, it will make you feel good.
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Summary: PUPPETERS
Review: I love The worthing saga. I love the puppeters. I could imigange the money mad ostrich creatures. A wonderful book straight from the forefront of sci fiction. I want to see more books like this
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Summary: On the nature of pain......
Review: In some ways, this one's even better than Ender's Game. It will make you re-evaulate pain and its purpose in life. One of Card's best (and most underappreciated, even by many of his fans) talents is the ability to get us to see things from different perspectives. One of the most thought provoking books ever written
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Summary: A CLASSIC TO RIVAL "DUNE"
Review: Each of the Tales of Jason Worthing "Capitol"; "Hot Sleep";
and the "Worthing Chronicles" go a long way toward building a dynamic society to rival any created in sci-fi. Where Herbert's
"Dune" sage dealt with empire building, the "Worthing Saga" deals
with decay, and the price which must be paid by each member of that
society.
I found myself moved by this book to the point where I have
sought out each and every Jas Worthing story I could find, and
without exception I loved them all. It's no wonder that CARD
is the only writer to win both HUGO and NEBULA back to back for a book and it's sequel.
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Summary: Very original book worthy of high praise
Review: Having read many of Card's non-Ender series books I was leery of picking up another morality story with manufactered characters. This book exceeded all my expectations - the characters were unusually deep and the plot was very strong AND Card displayed his moral visioning. After several strange books like Hart's Hope and some of his anthologies I was not sure he could pull off a story like this one. This book is so finely crafted that you want to cry with the beauty and agony of it all. Very highly recommended, even an Ender fan will be satisfied
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Summary: Powerful reflections on the development of civilizations.
Review: For any Orson Scott Card fan, this book will only confirm the fact that he is one of the most brilliant science-fiction authors of our era, but even for one who has not been fortunate enough to see his previous works, this collection of stories about the development (or lack thereof, in some cases) of several civilizations will inspire you to go out and look at the world from a whole new perspective.
As you watch the worlds of a great empire develop around a drug that can halt the aging process by putting people into a type of deepened sleep, you will wonder about how mankind can be so obviously intelligent, and yet so foolish in the long run.
I think it can be honestly stated that this is one of the most awe-inspiring and exceptional novels developed in this century.
-Pierce Hanle
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Summary: Best Book O. Scott Card written to date
Review: This is argueablely the best book that O. Scott Card has written to date. The Worthing Saga is an exploration in the social dynamix of a society
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