Wow that's a good book!

In the retelling of the Ender's Game series to you I got so excited I had to read the book again... in case you might not know, I loved it yet again! It is such a good book! An anonymous poster commented on the political nature of the books, the parrallel between our factual terroism and the book's big fear of the Buggers. I had never though of it that way, but you I can see where you are coming from. I will be checking out Speaker for the Dead, shortly.

Speaker for the Dead's focus is on Ender as he is still dealing with his slaying of an entire species, the Bugger's, while trying to be a Speaker at someone elses death in a newly established colony. What I like most about the book is that Ender has been struggling with his killing of the buggers for his 15 to 20 years since leaving Eros. Due to relativity, and travel at the speed of light, 200 years later the rest of the humanity feels that Ender is not a hero, but a brash, unstable person. His name is considered a curse, but who made it that way? Ender did, with the publishing of his book, "Speaker for the Dead." Tell me that does not sound good! Layers upon layers of story weaving!

Tara, you mention reading Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild a few months ago, do you remember the images that affected you most? I have two, the first is the image Krakauer draws when he tells the reader about McCandless canoeing down the Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico in an aluminum canoe, with a bag of rice!? And the other is the image of McCandless's old car baking in Death Valley (I think), left abandoned. I don't know what to think of the kid but instead feel the need to quote Mr. T, "I pitty da fool!" And one last favor, what books are you reading now?

Amy informed us that Outside magazine had a breif article on the Into the Wild crew 10 years later. The first two articles on the linked page speak directly to the 1996 tragedy.

And then Steven commented, I think reading is addictive, and no matter what type it is, it fuels the desire to keep reading. So I recommend picking up a magazine, a piece of classic literature, a new novel, the newspaper, or just read Lee's blog... to keep the fires burning. Thanks for putting me on your list of things to read, I appreciate that.

Jas, its great to see you stopped by! My sister, Shannon was telling me of a Card book I need to read, Empire. Have you read it? And if so what did you think? Has anyone else read it? Please tell me about if you have! I deffinitely need to read more by Durrell, do you have more that you'd recomend?

So the next book, oh yes! How many of you read Encyclopedia Brown? That's right, the boy detective will be here next!