[HairOfTheDog]

Did you notice how JenB referred to us as "you people" up there in the thinly veiled insult up there about those books she thought we should all know about?

please tell me some of you people have read the Ender books?

[Sam Cree]

I checked out the you thread you mentioned re the Levys. I'm afraid to speak my thoughts about it, because I'm sure I'll offend someone...

Is this whole FR site slowing way down or is it just my computer?

[JenB]

Sorry, did not mean to insult. I am quite tired and not thinking straight.

Anyway, the Ender books are by Orson Scott Card. The ones I like best are Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, and Speaker for the Dead (incidentally that's the order I would recommend reading them in.)

They happen to be some of the best sci-fi written lately, and Game and the Shadow series are absolutely brilliant and true. Speaker for the Dead is a little different from the others but good, in a way.... if you can stand books about brilliant children, and science fiction to boot, they're a great series. Also, since we're talking religion, Card is a Mormon but his books are some of the most, well, Christian, out there.