Book Review: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

I have to give Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead two stars instead of one mainly because I do believe Card has the ability to write. However, after over 100 pages of reading this, I found the same problem with it that I had with Ender’s Game, only amplified. I didn’t care one whit for any of the characters involved. Not only that, but every sentence of dialogue out of the characters mouths irritated me on a cellular level. Though intrigued by the story, I cannot stomach it through the eyes of these characters who seem to act in complete, conscious opposition to their own self-interests for really no good reason whatsoever. Ender, as in the first book, strikes me of the “Mary Sue” syndrome. He is always right, always the moral center of the book, and I form no connection with him whatsoever. I simply didn’t feel my time would be well-spent by continuing to read the book.

September 8, 2011 at 9:31 pm | Books | No comment

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