No, never quite got around to it at the time and it hasn't popped back up on the radar until now. Is it worth the effort?Bob Juch wrote:Have you read Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman?tanstaafl2 wrote:Bob78164 wrote:Those are three very different books. The strength of Ender's Game is the characters of the children and the effect of an impossible situation on children in general, and Ender in particular. I think of A Canticle for Leibowitz as a mood piece, and though I haven't read it in many years, I suspect that the end of the Cold War has robbed it of some of its power. I really think Moon (which, among many other strengths, is not a bad how-to manual on building a revolution) will speak to you much more than those other two possibilities. --Bob
Oh, I don't know about that so much. The cyclical nature of history and the folly of the collective mindset of mankind doesn't seem to stray too far from the overall theme of Canticle.
The "Enderverse"
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
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No, it's like most sequels.tanstaafl2 wrote:No, never quite got around to it at the time and it hasn't popped back up on the radar until now. Is it worth the effort?Bob Juch wrote:Have you read Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman?tanstaafl2 wrote:
Oh, I don't know about that so much. The cyclical nature of history and the folly of the collective mindset of mankind doesn't seem to stray too far from the overall theme of Canticle.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.