xX-Ender-Xx Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Has anyone ever read the book "Ender's Game"? If you haven't you should it is such an awesome book... And no, this isn't a GAME...
Redwing Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Yes!! One of the few school-reading books I liked...I definitely recommend it ^_^
Wacky_Baccy Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 Posted by talldudeX Well, what was it about...? ... From Ender.com (courtesy of Google - try it some time ) "Ender's Game is a science fiction novel that tells the story of Andrew Wiggin (nicknamed Ender by his sister, Valentine.) The story takes place on Earth in the future. Earth has been attacked twice by an alien species called Buggers, nearly destroying the human race. Mankind begins training young geniuses to become soldiers and commanders to fight in Earth's defence if the Buggers should ever attack again. Ender is extremely intelligent, and at the age of six years old, he goes to Battle School to be trained. Ender quickly rises to the top in Battle School and begins training in order to command Earth's fleet." "Buggers" LMAO!!! :lol: I think I might just read that book
Rogue Nine Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 I liked Jane Eyre, The Joy Luck Club, Fallen Angels, Watership Down, The Clan of the Cave Bear, A Man For All Seasons and the Lords of Discipline during my tenure in high school. All other books were crap.
talldudeX Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 Hm...interesting...and you say you read this book in school? All we ever read are books like "To kill a Mockingbird" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Blast that school system...
edlib Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 I got to read 'Catch-22', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Cat's Cradle', and 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' for school projects. There were others, but those are the ones I remember and have read again. I'm re-reading 'Catch-22' right now, and another Vonegut novel called 'Breakfast of Champions'. I just finished reading 'The Salmon of Doubt' which is the book Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide) was working on when he died. It would have been great.
talldudeX Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 The Breakfast of Champions...a book, a cereal, and who knows what else. I actually haven't read in a long time. If we had to read for school I like to print out study guides for answers. The most recent book I read by choice was a goosebumps book in 4th grade I think...and I used to skip pages a lot too. So there were few books I ever completely finished.
edlib Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 Originally posted by talldudeX The Breakfast of Champions...a book, a cereal, and who knows what else. It's also a movie with Bruce Willis. I haven't seen it.
Rogue Nine Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 I can read pretty much any book I can get. Just recently I finished Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Cervantes' Don Quixote and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, upon which the movie of the same name is based. Reading is a great hobby to unwind with.
talldudeX Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 I've been trying to get myself to read rainbow six but I just can't bring myself to do it! Come to think of it, last year I started to read a Harry Potter book but only got to page 100...
xX-Ender-Xx Posted June 9, 2002 Author Posted June 9, 2002 Hm...interesting...and you say you read this book in school? All we ever read are books like "To kill a Mockingbird" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Blast that school system... Ya we had to read those book too they suck, i read Ender's Game 4 times and i liked it just as much everytime... You all should read it, i guarentee you will like it....
talldudeX Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 Ok, just keep on throwing books at me. What's this one about?
xX-Ender-Xx Posted June 10, 2002 Author Posted June 10, 2002 It's about some Buggers who attacked Earth in the past and how Earth is preparing LITTLE troops to stop them next time they attack... They come across a boy name Andrew Wiggin (aka : Ender... He was named by his sister valentine). He is brought to battle school and eventually becomes the best soldier there. At the battle school they have a game that everyone plays, you have an army and you go against another army in NULL gravity with freezing guns... Ender became the best with the best scores ever... I'll leave the rest for you to read if you want
talldudeX Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 Whoops, thought it was a different one...heheh. Oh well, I'll have to read it sometime. I used to read animorphs all the time too, that wasn't too bad of a series.
Rogue Nine Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 The Harry Potter series has got to be the easiest set of books to get through. I went through the whoel series in two days. Still waiting on Year Five. Rainbow Six was fun as hell to read. Don't let the large size scare you.
xX-Ender-Xx Posted June 10, 2002 Author Posted June 10, 2002 there's a raindbow six book out?! that's one of the book i would like to read.
talldudeX Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 You didn't know!? Haha! The game was based on the book.
Rogue Nine Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 That's what started the whole counter-terrorist craze. CS is probably an indirect result of that. Though sometimes I find myself loading up Rainbow Six again, just for kicks.
xX-Ender-Xx Posted June 11, 2002 Author Posted June 11, 2002 so you know about counter-strike rogue nine? You play it?
Rogue Nine Posted June 11, 2002 Posted June 11, 2002 I used to. I was a good Scout sniper and M4A1 marksman in my day. I've just not had the time since junior year.
xX-Ender-Xx Posted June 11, 2002 Author Posted June 11, 2002 You should try getting back into it, maybe we can 1v1 some time....
Rogue Nine Posted June 11, 2002 Posted June 11, 2002 I uninstalled it. Too much HD space for Half-Life.
xX-Ender-Xx Posted June 11, 2002 Author Posted June 11, 2002 ya i have that prob. too, i had to delete alot of stuff to put it on, but im getting a new comp: 1.7 GHz, 256 RAM, 40 GB hard drive, and Gforce 2 video card for $500. woohoo :D
TheMadDoofer Posted June 11, 2002 Posted June 11, 2002 I just finished reading 'The Salmon of Doubt' which is the book Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide) was working on when he died. It would have been great. I just finished that book too. It was great, but depressing to see what would have come if Adams had not died at an early age. He was my favorite author!
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