Wednesday, January 25, 2012

THE GAME IS FINALLY ON!

By Chad Morris

I have a friend who is brilliant. Yes, it’s you. I’m glad you guessed it. Thanks for being brilliant.

I have another friend who is also brilliant. He’s the kind of guy I always feel a little bit self-conscious around because I feel intimidated by his genius. Sure he has his PhD and is well published in the scholarly world, but it’s more the fact that just speaking with him you can tell he knows his stuff. I keep waiting for those moments when he shows that he’s human, has weaknesses in his thought . . . etc, and they just don’t seem to happen. Of course he reads like crazy. His office at work has at least six bookshelves overflowing with history books, biographies, and scholarly journals. He even uses the top of each shelf to store more. And he has more at home, and on his Kindle.

So the other day, this same brilliant friend sent me an email with this link. And he was incredibly excited.  


And the whole star-studded cast. (Yep, beside Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley, that's the girl from True Grit, and the boy from Hugo).

I spoke to him (my friend, not Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, or the boy from Hugo) in the hall the other day, and he told me the story. To abridge it down to a sentence: He didn’t like fiction . . . until he read Ender’s Game.

It opened up a whole new world of reading for him. Then he proceeded to tell me that after reading the entire Enders’ series (what was the entire series at the time. Card seems to always be adding to it.), he thought he must like science fiction. He tried several other sci-fi books and couldn’t get into them. He discovered that though he wasn’t a science fiction fanatic, he loves Orson Scott Card.

I personally hadn’t read Ender’s Game until about a decade ago. I wasn’t into sci-fi at the time either, but it won me over. It is definitely in my top 5 all-time fiction books.  

I will completely admit that I really like the other books in the series. However, I think Ender’s Game is the king. At some point, some of the other books got a little too grown up for me. But Enders’ was perfect.

So sometime before this big budget, special-effect extraordinaire comes out (a lot of the book is in zero gravity), make sure you give it a read.

12 comments:

  1. I CAN"T wait for the movie. Ender's Game is one of my favorite books even though science fiction isn't really my genre. Card is just an amazing story teller.

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  2. I loved Ender's Game but other than that I really can't stand Card. I don't think I've been able to finish any of his other books.

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  3. This is one of those books that I've been meaning to read for years. Must get to it :-)

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  4. The excitement I felt when I first read this last November cannot be measured. I really hope they do it justice.

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  5. This is very exciting news! I'll admit sci-fi wouldn't be my first choice of book to pick up, but there are some great reads in the genre and Orson Scott Card is a fantastic author!

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  6. This is so exciting!!! I think they had to wait until movie magic could finally capture the awesomeness of this book!

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  7. Ha ha! This is my husband's all time favorite book, and I have been receiving weekly emails from him about the upcoming movie... I have to say, I'm not a big sci-fi fan, but I do love this book.

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  8. Is it pathetic that I haven't read this yet? Don't answer - I know it is. *sigh* I will totally get these read before the movie! (I hope.)

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  9. Are you kidding me? I can't believe there's a movie coming out - I'm so excited! I think this is one I would wait in line for opening night.

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  10. I hope they do the book justice. This always struck me as one of the hardest book to movie transitions. As for the rest of Card's writing, I give it a resounding meh. He has moments of brilliance, but nothing he's done approaches the level of Ender's Game.

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  11. Yeah, but who's going to play Ender and Bean?

    I'm excited for this film. I love the series (except for Xenocide and Children of the Mind--totally wish I'd never poisoned my mind with them. Talk about a toxic relationship. Ender deserved better). My next download from audible will be the new Bean book.

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  12. Ender's Game was a gateway book/drug for me. I'd never read sci-fi or fantasy until I read Ender.

    The paths, choices, relationships, and experiences that have evolved in my life from having read that one book are astonishing to me.

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