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Orson Scott Card
Narr:
I picked up a short story compliation of his works the other day. First section he calls "The Hanged Man: Tales of Dread" and before the first story, there's an essay he wrote on why horror is dumb because the real reason we fear is dread and not the horrific way something or someone dies. Very, very interesting stuff, and he does it very well.
Anyone else ever read anything by the author?
Figured I'd post the wikipedia entry I found on him in case nobody knew who he was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card
(That is like the worst possible picture that could have been used, rofl.)
edit: friggin' typos. :(
Kai:
I only read Ender's Game freshmen year. It was fairly fancy.
nescience:
I've read Ender's Game twice since junior high and I'm reading Ender's Shadow right now. I suppose I'm enjoying the deliberate pace of Shadow but more so I appreciate that Card retells the Wiggin story with a completely different but no less unique perspective. Not too bad.
Shale:
Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are excellent books - Ender's Game might be my favorite SF work ever. The Shadow books I found to be good SF adventures but lacking the character work that made the first two Ender novels so great. his other books are hit and miss, but the Alvin Maker series is generally worth reading. Oh, and Pastwatch was badass.
Inlander:
Never read any of his stuff; however
--- Quote from: Narr ---before the first story, there's an essay he wrote on why horror is dumb because the real reason we fear is dread and not the horrific way something or someone dies.
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that is something I completely agree with. Horror these days is so lame - so much of it is "BIG SCARY HORRIBLE MONSTER!!" If you want something really unsettling, go back to the classics like Ray Bradbury, or even as far back as Poe. They scared people by simply suggesting something horrific, and letting the reader's imagination do the rest.
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