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[EnigmaticHat]

My friend was grossly misdiagnosed for a medical issue (which involves genitalia so does not need to be described here) and ended up in the ER.  She attempted to file a complaint and was not only treated rudely, but apparently according to online records the doctor magically prescribed her a treatment for the actual problem even though said doctor did not diagnose her for that problem.  Now she's planning on sueing the doctor, for which she will certainly need a lawyer working pro bono (and I'm not sure she would even be able to get that).

[Bohandas]

(Finally) decided to read Ender's Game and realized I didn't like it. The characters, while not particularly interesting, played their role of backed up a poorly-thought plot with solid execution. I'm almost inclined to say that the book is overrated, but I don't want to make myself feel like an insecure contrarian. The mental turmoil, though not as strong as what many of you are going through, is real.

Honestly I liked Ender's Shadow quite a bit more than Ender's Game (and really the best part of both of them was the game parts IMO, the other things tended to get a strange for me at times).

Yeah.  It gets kinda weird as you go along.  Like, VERY weird.  Not WTF-thread level weird.  Mostly.  But close.  The battles are interesting though.

Also, wasn't the guy who wrote it some kind of nazi or something?

[Yoink]

What would that have to do with the content/quality of the book?

[TheDarkStar]

(Finally) decided to read Ender's Game and realized I didn't like it. The characters, while not particularly interesting, played their role of backed up a poorly-thought plot with solid execution. I'm almost inclined to say that the book is overrated, but I don't want to make myself feel like an insecure contrarian. The mental turmoil, though not as strong as what many of you are going through, is real.

Honestly I liked Ender's Shadow quite a bit more than Ender's Game (and really the best part of both of them was the game parts IMO, the other things tended to get a strange for me at times).

Yeah.  It gets kinda weird as you go along.  Like, VERY weird.  Not WTF-thread level weird.  Mostly.  But close.  The battles are interesting though.

Also, wasn't the guy who wrote it some kind of nazi or something?

I'm pretty sure that he's Mormon and not a Nazi. Also, what Yoink said.

[Arcvasti]

(Finally) decided to read Ender's Game and realized I didn't like it. The characters, while not particularly interesting, played their role of backed up a poorly-thought plot with solid execution. I'm almost inclined to say that the book is overrated, but I don't want to make myself feel like an insecure contrarian. The mental turmoil, though not as strong as what many of you are going through, is real.

Honestly I liked Ender's Shadow quite a bit more than Ender's Game (and really the best part of both of them was the game parts IMO, the other things tended to get a strange for me at times).

Yeah.  It gets kinda weird as you go along.  Like, VERY weird.  Not WTF-thread level weird.  Mostly.  But close.  The battles are interesting though.

Also, wasn't the guy who wrote it some kind of nazi or something?

Yeah, Orson Scott Card is a raving bigot. Which, ironically, clashes with Ender's Game, where the terrible alien foe that Ender genocided with Dr. Device was peaceful and trying to communicate with them, which is basically the opposite of xenophobia. Same with Lovecraft, where his characters empathize with sentient starfish-headed things, declaring them "Just men" while the author himself is quite xenophobic to their own species.

[TheDarkStar]

He does have some odd ideas. It doesn't show up very often in his books, though.

[Bohandas]

(Finally) decided to read Ender's Game and realized I didn't like it. The characters, while not particularly interesting, played their role of backed up a poorly-thought plot with solid execution. I'm almost inclined to say that the book is overrated, but I don't want to make myself feel like an insecure contrarian. The mental turmoil, though not as strong as what many of you are going through, is real.

Honestly I liked Ender's Shadow quite a bit more than Ender's Game (and really the best part of both of them was the game parts IMO, the other things tended to get a strange for me at times).

Yeah.  It gets kinda weird as you go along.  Like, VERY weird.  Not WTF-thread level weird.  Mostly.  But close.  The battles are interesting though.

Also, wasn't the guy who wrote it some kind of nazi or something?

Yeah, Orson Scott Card is a raving bigot. Which, ironically, clashes with Ender's Game, where the terrible alien foe that Ender genocided with Dr. Device was peaceful and trying to communicate with them, which is basically the opposite of xenophobia. Same with Lovecraft, where his characters empathize with sentient starfish-headed things, declaring them "Just men" while the author himself is quite xenophobic to their own species.

I'm glad there's someone else out there who thinks that Lovecraft's fiction was significantly less racist than Lovecraft himself. I got into quite a contentions argument over that matter recently on another forum.

[Rose]

Ender's Game wasn't the weird one.


The later sequels, those are the weird ones.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I don't think Card really went bad until Empire, which is a shame as I think the intended premise is very interesting.

[Trapezohedron]

I'm becoming crazy with the dozens of internship requirements piling up.

[Rolan7]

I'm sad because my project will be finished today. It has been going on for 14 days on my website... I'm so sad, yet proud that I'm done with it! I'm finally doing the final team for my website, "Randomized Elements Reaction!" It's so sad... What can I do now?

Also, I have a picture for the final team that's gonna be made. I make a randomized picture for every team I make. This is going to be the last picture!

Do you mean you drew these?  Because they're really cool!  I reverse-image-searched and downloaded the whole list from imgur yesterday.

[Calidovi]

I'm sad because my project will be finished today. It has been going on for 14 days on my website... I'm so sad, yet proud that I'm done with it! I'm finally doing the final team for my website, "Randomized Elements Reaction!" It's so sad... What can I do now?

Also, I have a picture for the final team that's gonna be made. I make a randomized picture for every team I make. This is going to be the last picture!

Do you mean you drew these?  Because they're really cool!  I reverse-image-searched and downloaded the whole list from imgur yesterday.

Rubidium must have some talent, then. Hopefully his drawing of rubidium isn't a self-insert  .

[Criptfeind]

(Finally) decided to read Ender's Game and realized I didn't like it. The characters, while not particularly interesting, played their role of backed up a poorly-thought plot with solid execution. I'm almost inclined to say that the book is overrated, but I don't want to make myself feel like an insecure contrarian. The mental turmoil, though not as strong as what many of you are going through, is real.

Honestly I liked Ender's Shadow quite a bit more than Ender's Game (and really the best part of both of them was the game parts IMO, the other things tended to get a strange for me at times).

Yeah.  It gets kinda weird as you go along.  Like, VERY weird.  Not WTF-thread level weird.  Mostly.  But close.  The battles are interesting though.

Also, wasn't the guy who wrote it some kind of nazi or something?

Yeah, Orson Scott Card is a raving bigot. Which, ironically, clashes with Ender's Game, where the terrible alien foe that Ender genocided with Dr. Device was peaceful and trying to communicate with them, which is basically the opposite of xenophobia. Same with Lovecraft, where his characters empathize with sentient starfish-headed things, declaring them "Just men" while the author himself is quite xenophobic to their own species.

I'm glad there's someone else out there who thinks that Lovecraft's fiction was significantly less racist than Lovecraft himself. I got into quite a contentions argument over that matter recently on another forum.

"He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon. He must have looked worse in life-but the world holds many ugly things."

I'm gunna go with whoever you were arguing with on this one.

Edit: Unless Lovecraft was like, really really really supremely racist, in which case I guess his stories could just be really really really racist, and thus less racist them him. That would make sense I guess.

[Calidovi]

(Finally) decided to read Ender's Game and realized I didn't like it. The characters, while not particularly interesting, played their role of backed up a poorly-thought plot with solid execution. I'm almost inclined to say that the book is overrated, but I don't want to make myself feel like an insecure contrarian. The mental turmoil, though not as strong as what many of you are going through, is real.

Honestly I liked Ender's Shadow quite a bit more than Ender's Game (and really the best part of both of them was the game parts IMO, the other things tended to get a strange for me at times).

Yeah.  It gets kinda weird as you go along.  Like, VERY weird.  Not WTF-thread level weird.  Mostly.  But close.  The battles are interesting though.

Also, wasn't the guy who wrote it some kind of nazi or something?

Yeah, Orson Scott Card is a raving bigot. Which, ironically, clashes with Ender's Game, where the terrible alien foe that Ender genocided with Dr. Device was peaceful and trying to communicate with them, which is basically the opposite of xenophobia. Same with Lovecraft, where his characters empathize with sentient starfish-headed things, declaring them "Just men" while the author himself is quite xenophobic to their own species.

I'm glad there's someone else out there who thinks that Lovecraft's fiction was significantly less racist than Lovecraft himself. I got into quite a contentions argument over that matter recently on another forum.

unspeakable Congo secrets

This may be my favorite line from any book.

[TheBiggerFish]

I never have enough time to sit down and update Descent.

hhhhhh

* Cinder wilts

Don't worry, I'm praying to the Miraculous Post God for you.