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LTK:
Having just finished it as well, I can concur on the blowing-the-fuck-away-ness. But I don't think I would have wanted to read it earlier, because my younger self wouldn't have appreciated it as much. On the other hand, maybe if my younger self did read it, this book may have sparked this appreciation for a good book.
Basically, I would recommend this book to myself above any other book, although I'm not sure if that says more about me, or about the book. Maybe it's a strange thing to ask, but have any of you considered whether you would recommend a book to yourself after reading it? I think it has to do with a feeling that when you're done reading (or viewing, playing, or insert medium-appropriate-gerund-here) you have gained something, learned something, or are more complete than before.
smack that isaiah:
You both ought to go out and read Ender's Shadow now. I loved that book to pieces. It runs parallel to Game, telling the story of Bean. I prefer it to Game by a good order of magnitude or two. I read both of them when I was in 6th grade. To sort of portray how amazing both books are: I picked up Ender's Game and was so enthralled I finished it in 3 days--skipping my favorite TV shows, losing sleep, finishing meals very quickly, etc. Then, I got Ender's Shadow and I finished it in 2 days--I was so much more into the whole everything of that story (partially cause I had already read Game, partially because it's just freaking amazing) that I finished it more quickly despite it being longer.
(Also, IMO, Ender's Shadow and the whole Shadow series feels like a much more appropriate sequel and follow up to Ender's Game than Speaker for the Dead and the rest of the Ender series were)
Mister D Nomms:
I read the back of Speaker of the Dead and that was enough for me. It sounded terrible.
lepetitfromage:
Over the weekend I started and finished Let's Pretend This Never Happened. I actually had to put it down on three different occasions because it made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.
Barmymoo:
Just finished reading The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers, which was interesting but unfortunately just didn't quite work, either as a novel or as a memoir. It was co-written, with the woman whose story it narrates dictating to an author. I enjoyed the story and it was thought-provoking but not well written.
I'm also reading the collected works of Amy Levy, and a book called The Madness of Adam and Eve. Only just started that last one but it appears to be about how genius and schizophrenia have close genetic links - a lot of geniuses have family members with schizophrenia, or demonstrate schizotypial traits themselves. It tracks back to the origins of man (the evolutionary origins, despite the title).
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