Children of the Mind (Ender, Book 4)
Children of the Mind (Ender, Book 4)
Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.
Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender’s children must save her if they are to save themselves.
Customer Review: A Not So Fitting End…
Before reading this, I already knew what to expect having already ingested the previous three books in this series – Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide, so I’m not sure what exactly about this book was a disappointment. Card finally gives us a kind of end to Ender’s 3000 year life and many plot points that arguably should have already taken place in Xenocide. Unlike the ending to the Harry Potter series, we are not left feeling a sense of sadness and loss at losing a character we have already followed for a thousand pages. Instead, we get another failed attempt at a philosophical science fiction novel. The dialogue is almost endless, one of my major criticisms of the last two books, but here, the religious and spiritual debates reach a crescendo, for me, it was almost too much and almost forced me to stop reading the book. But alas, having loved Ender’s story, maybe only in the beginning to be honest with you, I had to see how everything played out.
I cannot decide whether Card’s note at the end of the book, where he tries explain what it is he was and is trying to do and where he discusses the work of Oe and Endo (both authors I adore), was a good idea or a bad one. For those having read the previous two volumes and presumably this one since you see the note at the end, you already figured that he had an intense interest both in Asian culture and writing and in creating some kind of moral pedagogy in his work. Unfortunately, his finished project does not stand up as well to other writers who have successfully done it–Endo, Oe, C.S. Lewis to name a few–because the philosophy and religion and other spiritual aspects of the novel are so in-your-face and all-consuming that the plot and the storylines disappear.
Anyways, at least I can say that I’m done with this book series…
Interesting Quotes:
“Life is a suicide mission.”
“Do the dead tips of fingernails feel bad when you pare them away?”
“It’s all fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward, but they’re never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.”
Customer Review: Only book that has made me cry
This is the only book that has made me cry. I cried when Ender died, (although he didn’t die his aiua passed on to Peter) the character of Ender died. Through the series I have gotten so attatched to his character unlike any other character in any series. Through his guilt of xenocide, and hard life it was hard to read sometimess. Especially, when he had problems with Novinha in Xenocide, losing her for the time being but gaining her back in COTM. His funeral was very touching, and probably the best part in the book. The whole book was good, and had a satisfying ending. The philotes were a bit confusing, but oh well. Ender’s Game is being made into a movie, and I doubt it’s going to be very good, but they can make it good if they go into the emotions of the characters, not just the battles. The thing that I liked best about the series was the characterization, especially the character of Ender. After a life full of guilt he can live a new life. Farewell, Ender Wiggin “the candle burned out long before the legend ever did.”
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