Has anyone read...

[Tenshin_Xo]

Treasure box by Orson Scott Card?

[Guest Cadsuane]

No, but I love OS Card. Is it good? Should I run out and buy it right now?? :P

[Werthead]

Not even heard of it. Btw, OSC is probably the most random author I've ever read, who has written one of the best SF novels ever published (Ender's Game) and also one of the worst (Empire). Very inconsistent author, but when he's good, he's great.

[Tenshin_Xo]

I was only able to read about 1/8th of the way before I had to stop Empire. I just finished Treasure Box. Its decent but not spectacular, similar in some respects to the Sixth Sense movie.

[Guest Cadsuane]

I've read most books in the Ender world, and also enjoyed The Seventh Son and a couple of its followers. However, the Worthing Saga was mediocre. I've been looking for others of his works that may be closer to par with Ender and 7th Son.

[Tenshin_Xo]

I'm a big fan of the Ender series. Especially Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. I did read a story of his called Homebody a while back, and it was ghost story pure and simple, and not too bad either, but nothing to go crazy about.

[DubbleChrisP]

Orson Scott Card is awesome. It's weird that so many people hated Empire, though. I never read it myself, but my dad did, and he said it wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either.

 

The cool thing about OSC is how he wrote an entire book series that is basically a Sci-Fi adaptation of the Book of Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' holy book).

[Werthead]

Empire is horrific wish-fulfilment of the worst sort. All the wishy-washy liberals and atheists turn out to be Evil-doers who only want to destroy America, and the American Conservative Christian Right turns out to put them down. Or something like that. I gave up after the first chapter as it appeared to have been written by a six-year-old. The review here probably sums up the book's problems pretty well.

[Tenshin_Xo]

As far as I got, it wasn't so cut and dry. He makes it clear that both sides are pushing for civil war, its just that the 'right' is much better armed. I got into it a little further than the terrorist attack on the white house, but lost interest soon after.

[Rufae]

Being a conservative, I think I might find that interesting... :lol:

[Loreia]

Ok, so has anyone read Stephen R. Lawhead's Song Of Albion trilogy? Very intellectual reading if I say so myself.

 

Loreia, the Lost One

[Tenshin_Xo]

No Loreia, is it very good? What kind of intellectual is it? I'm in a pinch and don't know what to read next.

 

I just finished the newish Foundation Trilogy that was written to fill in the back story of Hari Seldon. I wasn't impressed, and felt they should have left Asimov's work stand on its own.

[The Outsider]

Ok' date=' so has anyone read Stephen R. Lawhead's Song Of Albion trilogy? Very intellectual reading if I say so myself.

 

Loreia, the Lost One[/quote']

 

I may have read that one... I know I have a Lawhead trilogy and I liked it, but I don't remember which one now... Except I know the main character started out in the UK in the beginning and then winds up in a fantasy universe where time flows faster, after exploring Celtic ruins or something like that, if that is the one... :)

[Loreia]

Yeah, that would be the Song of Albion Trilogy. I'm on the second book, and so far it has not been disappointing.

Lawhead writes a very good book. He uses nice vocab, and great plots based on history, myths, and legends. His Pendragon series is by far one of the best I've read. Hint there..ONE of the best. WoT would have to be the best.

 

~Loreia, the Lost One