I am a slow reader these days, not sure why. I finally finished reading Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow. Miss Language has been a fan of this series and shared it with Mr Music. Mr Music saw I was ready to read Ender's Game and was quite vocal that I must read Ender''s Shadow first, so that I would not "judge Bean ahead of time." Whatever that means.
So, I finally did.
Mr Music keeps asking what I think.
Well, what do I think? I think I am not crazy about books where babies hide in toilets and children kill other children. And I never have understood why children have to command in this army, anyhow.
But. There were some interesting ideas and some good quotes. Those I marked were:
"Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because when he works a particularly clever bit of mischief, God uses it to serve his own righteous purposes."
"So God uses wicked peoples as his tools."
"God gives us the freedom to do great evil, if we choose. Then he uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what he chooses."
So in the long run, God always wins."
"Yes."
"And in the short run, though, it can be uncomfortable."
"And when, in the past, would you have preferred to die, instead of being alive here today?"
"There it is. We get used to everything. We find hope in anything." (from chapter 16)
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and
"... the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being his keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept." (in chapter 18)
Seems like I have read these ideas somewhere before. :)
So, I finally did.
Mr Music keeps asking what I think.
Well, what do I think? I think I am not crazy about books where babies hide in toilets and children kill other children. And I never have understood why children have to command in this army, anyhow.
But. There were some interesting ideas and some good quotes. Those I marked were:
"Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because when he works a particularly clever bit of mischief, God uses it to serve his own righteous purposes."
"So God uses wicked peoples as his tools."
"God gives us the freedom to do great evil, if we choose. Then he uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what he chooses."
So in the long run, God always wins."
"Yes."
"And in the short run, though, it can be uncomfortable."
"And when, in the past, would you have preferred to die, instead of being alive here today?"
"There it is. We get used to everything. We find hope in anything." (from chapter 16)
~ ~ ~
and
"... the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being his keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept." (in chapter 18)
Seems like I have read these ideas somewhere before. :)
Stupendous and profound books, esp. #2 and #3 of the trilogy. But Ender's Game was also one of the most violent I had ever read, and the idea of children reading this book is quite shocking to me.
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