Yeah, Card isn't the worst but that doesn't mean he's good. His work is firmly planted in the teen demographic and you shouldn't be enjoying his work once you're out of high school or you have some fucking growing up to do
Spoken like someone who cares far too much what their idiot 20-something acquaintances think.
If you have to actively dislike something because you think you are too old for it, you aren't old enough.
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Yeah, Card isn't the worst but that doesn't mean he's good. His work is firmly planted in the teen demographic and you shouldn't be enjoying his work once you're out of high school or you have some fucking growing up to do
Spoken like someone who cares far too much what their idiot 20-something acquaintances think.
If you have to actively dislike something because you think you are too old for it, you aren't old enough.
If it wasn't yutt I would assume he was making a joke about druhim's age but somehow I doubt it.
Yeah, Card isn't the worst but that doesn't mean he's good. His work is firmly planted in the teen demographic and you shouldn't be enjoying his work once you're out of high school or you have some fucking growing up to do
Spoken like someone who cares far too much what their idiot 20-something acquaintances think.
If you have to actively dislike something because you think you are too old for it, you aren't old enough.
Dru's got a point
It ain't exactly written as high class literature.
It's pretty much written for high school kids
But you know what?
That's fine. It's still enjoyable
Listening to people who say that you should only like things written for your own age group would mean not enjoying Kipling's Just So Stories anymore. And that's a sacrifice I'm not willing to make.
I'm reading Shadow Puppets right now and it's a decent read. I don't have to think hard to get anything, but I don't care. It's just a cool little story to follow.
It wasn't the political thing, it's that it turned into like a romance and lifestyle story and everything, and it was all supporting characters with Bean trying to be Ender.
Because a smart and likable guy can't also have sadistic tendencies.
The character of Peter Wiggin in the Bean series who helps his sister and his little brother's classmate solve the world's problems doesn't seem like the kind of person who would murder his own brother or mutilate animals for the sick thrill of it. They read like two totally different people, though I understand that Ender's version of Peter is at the very least a somewhat-misunderstood one.
Ender's version of Peter was also colored by Peter's treatment of him because Peter resented him for being the success
Of course that doesn't explain why Valentine thought he was a monster
She was the one who caught him skinning squirrels
Yeah, Card isn't the worst but that doesn't mean he's good. His work is firmly planted in the teen demographic and you shouldn't be enjoying his work once you're out of high school or you have some fucking growing up to do
Spoken like someone who cares far too much what their idiot 20-something acquaintances think.
If you have to actively dislike something because you think you are too old for it, you aren't old enough.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited August 2008
It must be really awkward to be Orson Scott Card's brother. What with all of his brutal sadistic sociopathic brother characters.
Family Christmas must be all like "Dude, I gave you noogies like that one time. You can stop making me set people on fire with my brain in your books now."
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The samples were so short I'm pretty sure it would have fallen under fair use, but oh well.
If you have to actively dislike something because you think you are too old for it, you aren't old enough.
If it wasn't yutt I would assume he was making a joke about druhim's age but somehow I doubt it.
hahahahah
oh yutt
you are so tragic
It ain't exactly written as high class literature.
It's pretty much written for high school kids
But you know what?
That's fine. It's still enjoyable
is this a bad thing?
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nah, it's a really fun book
Eh. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
Listening to people who say that you should only like things written for your own age group would mean not enjoying Kipling's Just So Stories anymore. And that's a sacrifice I'm not willing to make.
Read what you like.
I'm reading Shadow Puppets right now and it's a decent read. I don't have to think hard to get anything, but I don't care. It's just a cool little story to follow.
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All of the sequels made my eye twitch
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I hated Bean's sequels
And Ender's were just what the
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Let's take kids in space and make some weird political thing
No thanks
It's just kids who were in Battle School and the World Superpowers using them to take control of the world now that an alien threat is no more.
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I stopped caring once it went to a global scale
I mean before it was on a interplanetary scale but...yeah
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And if you want to be nitpicky, from their perspective, so did the war
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It sort of makes Ender seem like a jerk for portraying him as a potential serial-murder.
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The character of Peter Wiggin in the Bean series who helps his sister and his little brother's classmate solve the world's problems doesn't seem like the kind of person who would murder his own brother or mutilate animals for the sick thrill of it. They read like two totally different people, though I understand that Ender's version of Peter is at the very least a somewhat-misunderstood one.
Of course that doesn't explain why Valentine thought he was a monster
She was the one who caught him skinning squirrels
Oh, I think Druhim's old enough
sociopaths don't have any concept of morality
he only helped Bean and Petra and the world in general was because he considered it the most effective course of action
Family Christmas must be all like "Dude, I gave you noogies like that one time. You can stop making me set people on fire with my brain in your books now."
I know I'm late but I SWEAR TO GOD THE CHEAT I WILL END YOU
Ain't making a thread about it
but where's the new comic
looks like I just forgot to check the front page over the weekend