| | Comment from (2003-08-28) |
| I have read all (well, most) of OSC's books, and without fail his premises have been great. A couple of times i have been a little disspinted in the execution of the idea, such as in the Alvin Maker series, but the vast majority of the time his books are amazing. Also, the man who wrote the Ender series gets alot of leeway, as far as i'm concerned. |
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| | Comment from (2003-03-14) |
| Orson Scott Card is one of the best writers of all times. (Oh, and Ender rules!) |
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| | Comment from (2003-03-09) |
| Orson Scott Card is an excellent author. He makes many interesting, and hi-tech books. |
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| | Comment from (2003-03-08) |
| One of the best authors of this century. If you have not read any of his books, you have not read! |
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| | Comment from (2003-03-07) |
| This is one of the best sci-fi authors, although his religious convictions have led him astray recently, and made his books much worse than what they used to be in the '80s. |
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| | Comment from (2003-03-07) |
| Card is in my top three authors of all time, up there with Frank Herbert and George RR Martin. His work is consistently good, except his series tend to peak early and trickle off into farflung threads that sometimes complicate things easily. For example, Red Prophet (#2) is the best Alvin, Speaker for the Dead (#2) the best Ender, and Memory of Earth and Call of Earth (#s 1 & 2) are the best Homecoming books. His last GREAT work was Enchantment, and the recent Shadow series have had its ups and downs, but Shadow Puppets was pretty good if more than usually preachy for Card. His best work is in the eighties, but he's written some damn fine stuff in the nineties: Xenocide, for all its flaws, is still an exceptional bit of philosophic exploration; Pastwatch is brilliant and a delight to read; many consider Lost Boys to be his best work, and it is heart-breaking. On a whole he's an author whos good works vastly outnumber his bad or mediocre works. Compared to say, Stephen King where its more of an equal ratio. I must admit that recently Card has began to contradict his early theoretical writings about not dictating your beliefs in your writings, because his religious beliefs are no longer unconscious expressions that can be searched out if you know to look for them (as in his early works), but blatently declared for anyone to challenge, and quite often they interfere with what was otherwise a damn good read (Shadow Puppets for instance). |
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