Posted on 07/09/2013 12:20:11 PM PDT by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
I torrent movies anymore... not going to give them 1 more YEN...
Glenn Beck has brought up Orson Scott Card’s name up a lot over the years. That is how I know him. He was on his show.
This might actually get me into a movie theater for the first time in years.
Its one of the biggest selling science fiction novels of all time. Considered a classic. On many middle school and high school reading lists. Card is often mentioned in the same company as Heinlein and Asimov.
Card was one of those authors who could and did sell an extensive range of sequels on the strength of his name recognition.
Personally I am not quite that enthusiastic about it, and less so about the sequels. I think the book is very decent though Card’s (long)short story it was expanded from (Analog magazine @ 1977) was better. The padding into a novel didn’t improve it. If the moviemakers had a clue they would have used Cards story more than the books. But thats the sci fi geek in me saying it, who else would be reading Analog ?
Its much better than most other “young adult” best sellers of recent years (so far as I am familiar with them) but in itself thats not saying much.
It is an interesting and non-trivial starting point for a discussion of moral reasoning. The issues and points of view in the story and book are complex, nuanced, and tragic in the classical sense. No intelligent reader of this thing will dismiss Card as a lightweight.
As for Card, his reputation is secure. Heinlein and others have been similarly attacked by the liberal mafia in their day, on the strength of the enthusiasms of the moment, and they haven’t gone away.
They can boycott it all they want... there are legions of fans, who have waited years for Ender’s Game the movie.
Why tell them? ;)
Because there are people here who have had it with the homos and you can’t blame them. Off-topic, do you teach kids to spell favor’ and rumor’ with a “u”? :)
Instead of calling it marriage we should be calling it Holy Matrimony because it is a sacrament in the eyes of God. This will regain the upper hand of the language war and God always has the last Word. :^)
Good idea, I like it.
Whatcha talkin’ bout Willis? ;)
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