{"id":34,"date":"2011-09-08T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgechronicles.info\/garyballardauthor\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-09-08T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T21:31:06","slug":"book-review-speaker-for-the-dead-by-orson-scott-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/2011\/09\/08\/book-review-speaker-for-the-dead-by-orson-scott-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to give Orson Scott Card&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7967.Speaker_for_the_Dead\" target=\"_blank\">Speaker for the Dead<\/a><\/em> 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&#8217;s Game, only amplified. I didn&#8217;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 &#8220;Mary Sue&#8221; syndrome. He is always right, always the moral center of the book, and I form no connection with him whatsoever. I simply didn&#8217;t feel my time would be well-spent by continuing to read the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to give Orson Scott Card&#8217;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&#8217;s Game, only amplified. I didn&#8217;t care one whit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgechronicles.com\/garyballardauthor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}