How long had they felt this way?' And the constant refrain of jealousy is annoying and often times ridiculous. Literally in both of these cases Card was like 'it was then that x saw they loved y. I would get through a reading session and just feel so weighed down by reading stupid, useless argument after stupid, useless argument. Obviously any story needs tension, but it is so much. Every conversation (and I'm not positive that's hyperbole) is just doused in contention, bickering, manipulation, and/or psycho-analytical bull shit. But I kept going.Īs a positive note, I think Children of the Mind deals with interesting concepts and metaphysics, but it was just so frustrating to read. Were it not for the fact that I wanted to know how the series ends I would have just stopped there. I was really excited to read it and about halfway through, I realized that I hated it. Having read Xenocide a few years ago, I came across Children of the Mind in a local, used book store and bought. The transition in tone from Ender's Game to Speaker for the Dead really struck me and while I enjoyed Ender's Game, I was moved by Speaker. These books began to hold at least some value to me as well beyond just being fun reads. I also read a couple of the side-books like Ender's Shadow. Not on any particular schedule just when I felt the desire to read it / had the money to purchase it. Its been over a decade since then and every few years I have read the next one. So we got it and I read it and I loved it. That it was one of his favorite books and that it held a lot of value to him.
While we were there, he brought me the book Ender's Game and told me that I needed to read it. When I was in high school, I was at a Barnes and Nobles with my best friend at the time.
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