I can no longer stomach OSC (you know about him and the deep end, right?), and I think it's both sad and horrible the way he turned his back on himself and his characters. As one of my friends pointed out many years ago, *all* OSC's early novels (and IMHO all his good ones) are about abused children. Adults in his world are not kind or wise, and the best thing that can happen is for the abused children to love each other, without letting the morally-crippled adults tell them how or who.
What's surprising to me is how many readers apparently think Ender was victorious at the end, not thoroughly duped and manipulated. Or am I mis-remembering? I haven't re-read the book in years, because I find OSC when good too emotionally searing.
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Date: 2005-11-02 02:07 am (UTC)What's surprising to me is how many readers apparently think Ender was victorious at the end, not thoroughly duped and manipulated. Or am I mis-remembering? I haven't re-read the book in years, because I find OSC when good too emotionally searing.