Oh. Yeah.

This. Book. Was. Awesome. I read Ender's Game last summer and loved it. I'm usually pretty reluctant to get into the sequel game, but I searched every used book-store in town for a copy of the next novel in the series, Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. I even went to Chapters, and they didn't have it! I'm actually pretty sure they had every book in the series but this one. Last night I found it in ebook format. BAM! There goes my night.

I read this from the minute I downloaded it until 4am. Then I took a nap and read through until supper time. It was that good. I don't usually like sci-fi. It's okay, but there's just too much crap about slick ship captains and buxom aliens. The Ender series is classic for a reason. I don't think I've ever met someone who's read Ender's Game and not loved it. You either love it, or you haven't read it.

I don't really want to get into any specifics on plots here. Just read the novels and you'll see why. But you can definitely expect me to be posting on the rest of the books in the series. I plan to do so more in terms of quality than story, since it's not my purpose here to give plot summaries. Wikipedia does that pretty well. Oh, and it's going to be a while before I get to the other ones because I've got a lot of big classics on my plate. Expect to see more sci-fi after I'm done my final essays for classes. Then, I've got all the time in the world(s), baby.

coming soon: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion