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The most: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. Think I've bought almost a dozen copies over the years. Although that book wasn't really a gift, more a loan I neve
by davewasthere 10y ago
The most: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. Think I've bought almost a dozen copies over the years. Although that book wasn't really a gift, more a loan I never got back.
Others:
Lord of the Rings - I gave this to the guard who detained me in Russia. I thought it was the best revenge.
The life changing magic of tidying - to my partner. We're both messy. I've read it, she hasn't... neither of us have changed.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami to the friend who lent me Wind up Bird Chronicle all those years ago and started me on the path.
- entilzha 10y agoFunnily enough, same here with Ender's Game (not as many copies though)
- joshstrange 10y agoSearched the page for Ender's Game, I've always really enjoyed that book. I never had to read it for school but an older friend of mine did and told me to read it. I did and then a few years later was able to use it for a "pick your own book" report in school. I was always embarrassed to lend out my copy as it had writing in the margins that I had to do for school so I just bought it and gave it away whenever I was going to lend it. Really great book and this reminds me I still need to read the rest of the Ender series, I read all of the Bean/Shadow story line but somehow never got around to the continuation of the Ender line.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoJust so you know, the Ender line is very different from Ender's Game and the Shadow series. A lot of people are incredibly disappointed that they're not just like the first book in the series - but I think they're excellent books none-the-less.
- mcphage 10y ago> I still need to read the rest of the Ender series, I read all of the Bean/Shadow story line but somehow never got around to the continuation of the Ender line. They go in a very different direction. The Bean/Shadow books are still military fiction, and the Ender ones are... not. I do recommend reading them, but just don't go into them expecting anything similar.
- joshstrange 10y agoThis is what has kept me from reading them, I greatly enjoy military fiction (especially when you add sci-fi into the mix, I semi-recently read the whole Honor Harrington series and loved it).
- Ar-Curunir 10y ago1Q84 is probably my favourite Murakamai book so far.
- iamben 10y agoI love fact it took the entire first book to get 'weird'. It just teeters on the edge before dropping right off the cliff.
- sneak 10y agoMake an effort to pirate Ender's Game versus spending money on it; the author is a notorious bigot who uses his money to destroy equal human rights.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoIt's baffling that the same man who wrote the stories I loved can stand up and with a straight face tell everyone that gays aren't like us, and that gay marriage is destroying civilization. He literally said that, at a reading I attended. After telling us about the power of stories and humanity, he veered into that as a total non-sequitur.
- dbingham 10y agoDo you ever wonder if he's just... I dunno, trolling us? Or performing some strange social experiment he'll write about at the end of his life? I just don't understand how a man who wrote a book with such a thorough understanding of empathy can display so little of it in life.
- grandalf 10y agoI think it's useful to ignore the personal life of artists and just take the work at face value. Surely a great many people who have accomplished amazing things are also deeply flawed (even reprehensible) humans.
- myhf 10y agoIt's not baffling. The same anti-gay, pro-genocide themes are present throughout most of Card's novels and short stories.
- grandalf 10y agoExamples please.
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- Frogolocalypse 10y agoEnders Game was on my list of books I've given to people too. I've lost how many copies of bought, but at least 10.