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Type of bind: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781427205124
Format: Audiobook, CD
ISBN number: 1427205124
Label: Macmillan Audio
Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio
Quantity: 12
Printing Date: November 11, 2008
Publishing house: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 40220
Studio: Macmillan Audio
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Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel.
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony’s training facilities, but instead the twelve-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. With him went his sister Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane.
The story of those years has never been told… until now.
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I have read all the Ender and Bean books, and was excited to read "Ender in Exile". While the book is slow and not particularly exciting, there are engaging moments and it was a marginally satisfying read on these grounds.
On the other hand, while reading this book I became bothered and alarmed at the shape it was taking. We are told early on, for example, that women are their most fertile when they are 15 year old girls. This is not true (it's the early 20's), so I wondered why this statement would be in the book. I guessed that it might be a rationalization for the behavior of someone the author holds in esteem. I looked some things up and became more convinced.
The biological determinism mentioned by other reviewers is quite disturbing. The author states that people don't really change after their birth, and not too-subtly makes the point that children inherit their most deep-seated personality traits from their parents, whether or not they ever meet them, and this is a reason why any reasonable person would have children. It goes without saying that this is irresponsible pseudo-science. What is a child of rape to think reading this book? In fact the climax of the book is nothing but a strong statement of biological determinism, and quite a disappointment.
As other reviewers have noted, the book is essentially a screed on marriage and childbearing. In the worldview of this book, celibacy is never the right choice. Card states that in order to be a true member of the human race, one must have children. In this line of thinking Card is willfully ignorant of the many people throughout history who have happily benefited from choosing a celibate lifestyle - such as Jesus for example, who advocated celibacy. In the book's afterword, Card refers to one of his children as "the last one to leave home." That is all we are told about her; her name and her place in his collection of children. Nothing about her as an individual; those details are secondary.
A character who chooses celibacy to further his higher goals suffers in the end as a result. And the only character who is pointedly denied the right to have children despite wanting to is the only male Jewish character in the book (why Jewish?), which brings me to my subsequent point.
The book's treatment of Hindus borders on bigoted. We are told that Indians ("Indian" is used interchangeably with "Hindu" in this book) are both stubborn and, when it comes to manual labor, lazy. A Hindu character says "Thank God" and another character mentally mocks this with "which one?" This statement is ludicrous, both because of the blithe ignorance of the author regarding Hindu theology (the statement makes perfect sense in the Hindu context), and because the author's Mormonism itself includes belief in multiple gods (but worship of only one).
The author makes it clear that raising livestock for slaughter and eating animals in general is as natural as can be. For one example, a particularly important scientific expedition can only be carried out if eating meat is included in the planning. After establishing this "fact", Card has a character say "being Hindu, I eat an exclusively vegetarian diet." Hinduism does not mandate vegetarianism and most Hindus are not vegetarian. Card is attacking a straw-man here.
In short I completely agree with previous reviewers Roy Perez and Akemi. The book is a disappointment and should be kept away from impressionable children and teenagers. We can expect another book down the road in which Ender finally does have the (perfect) family without which his life would, of course, be meaningless. "Ender in Exile", however, will be the last Card book I buy.
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This book filled in all the cracks in the ender story, with all the good things that I have come to ezpect from Card.
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truly an amazing book. It changed my entire perspective on enders game. It also made speaker and xenocide a lot more fun to read. Five out of Five!
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Huge fan of OSC and the series (esp. the "Speaker" sequence) and was excited about this book. I enjoyed reading it, but it wasn't as filling as most of his other books. At times it felt like a "who's who in the Enderverse" with references thrown in to many different story lines, which felt somewhat disjointed at times. The potential climactic ending...wasn't.
However, it has it's hidden gems and interesting people. As always, great insight into the complexities of human relationships. Worth the read, but not one of the better books within the Enderverse.
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In some of Card's books his characters go into pointless long meandering misdirectional thought processes that are annoying; but fortunately he left those out in this book.
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