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Summary: A fairly good space opera
Review: The story reads well and remains interesting all the way to the end. There are no real cliff hangers although there is a little mystery about who is going to get murdered before the end of the novel. The story is told in diary form accounts written after most of the action in the story has occurred. The monkey talks about a murder that he has committed. There are a lot of dysfunctional people in the story at times any of them seems to be a good candidate for being murdered. It is actually these strongly annoying characters that made the story for me, they are well portrayed by the authors.The technology part of the story doesn't always quite hold together especially if you know even a little bit about computer science. And the tech. is dated a little as well since the story was published way back in 1994.
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Summary: Great book! I'm waiting for the sequel.
Review: This book gives us a unique perspective from the point of view of an individual in an intolerable and apparently hopeless situation. Even though faced with insurmountable odds, Lovelock continues to seek freedom and companionship. What makes Lovelock a truly heroic person is that he also feels empathy for the humans who have enslaved him and makes every effort to help those humans who are in need
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Summary: Rasputin (the sequal) is being worked on.
Review: This book is great. It incorporates todays life with a new world. I like that the SF part of the book isn't stressed. It focus's more on the people aspect (which I can relate to better). The ideas are still there though. this book keeps you thinking long after you put it down. It was wonderfully narrated and soem parts, though a little on the sick side, could not be left out and definetly helped the story. the plot is good, and ther is one. The realness of the story is very compeling. I've read all OSC's books many times, and this one is definetly in his top 3. You can check out more of his books at the Hatrack site. If you want to get there look up Orson Scott Card.
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Summary: Great (RASPUTIN THE SEQUAL IS COMING OUT)!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is wonderful. it's about a monkey who is tied (figuer of speech) to his owner. It's the future. All the greatest people, and some of the not so great, have witness. Witness are animals who have been "enhanced". People somewhere haveput computer chips into them so they can understand and react to human speech. They are made to record their owners actions. They have pretty much a photographic memory, only with computer chips. they can download images onto a computer where they are saved for future generations to look at. That way people in the future can better understand and rember people of the past. The witness have one problem though. they are made to love their masters. When they finally get over that though (many years after they are enhanced) they are obviously mad. Who wouldn't be after realizing that your intire life was a fix. Back to the story, Lovelock is the monkey. His owner is going to go on a trip to a new world. They are a group of professional people who are going to try to colonize a new planet. Their family has a problem though. The husban is a adulter, his mother is so amazingly bitchy that durring the book I actully shouted at her. The husbands father is weak and wont stand up against his wife. They also have two little kids that are very prissy. Durring the book Lovelock starts realizing how he has been held pretty much in captivity. This book is about his incounters with mean, and nice people. It is also about the family he lives with. It is very well written with wonderfull ideas and charecters (you're going to want to hit the mother). OSC's style is wonderful to. A great read.
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Summary: Very traditional sci-fi, with some great twists
Review: This is one of those books that hardcore sci-fi readers will love, and won't want to put down. Definitely a must-read of Card's.
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Summary: I love it
Review: This story is one of the best. Big Sci-Fi ideas but not really centered around them. Big humanistic stuff. Really good. I buy all of Cards works and can't wait for the other 2 in the trilogy.
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Summary: this story was one of his best
Review: this was one of the most intriging stories i have ever read. I can not wait for the next book to come out, if it ever does.
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Summary: Terrible, load of rubbish
Review: Very poorly realised and I will not be hanging out for the rest of the trilogy. Kiddy space opera at its worst, nothing to grab an adult reader.
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Summary: I'll have to read it again by the time the second comes out!
Review: Well I read this book not long after it came out so I have to go from memory. But as I recall I devoured it. It was very standard card. I'd have probably given it 5 stars but I'm kinda miffed that I read the book in like 95 or 96 and here it is almost 2000 and they haven't written the second. The person who whined about the book being offensive is being a bit puritanical in my view. Especially in how sexuality is used in the book, secondly its a monkey and well monkeys are well...monkeys. The comment that this is kiddy sci fi I believe was a bit unjustified, the book is not for a non-sci-fi or fantasy reader. I'd say it incorporates elements of both. Secondly it requires you to put yourself into the moral issues. The characters aren't flat and uncomplicated like your run of the mill StarTrek book
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Summary: A quick fun read - but typical Card....
Review: Whenever I long for good hard Sci Fi I reach for one of my well worn volumes from the Masters: e.g.:Heinlein and Asimov. Cards Sci Fi is, however, in many ways much more refined. His dialogue and characters don't feel as stilted (or, in the case of Heinlein, preachy). This does not come as a surprise. After all, Card is a master at characterization. But sometimes his deep characterization takes away, rather than enhances, a read as it does in the case of Lovelock. Please! Do we need ANOTHER book from Card about dysfunctional families? About poor interfamily relationships filled with internecine psychological warfare (carried to an even greater extreme in his Ships of Earth series)? Card NEEDS this type of characterization so badly that he fills this book with conradictions rather than try to write something without resorting to tired intrafamily drama. For instance, near the end of the book (I'm not giving away any important plot lines here for you that have not yet read it) he writes that "the Ark had been clearly limited to heterosexuals in order to maximize the breeding potential... on the new world." If this was the case, why does he fill his Ark with others with no clear contribution, much less breeding potential.. i.e. the idle grandparents and virtually every other character introduced (most of whom he obviously puts there for us to loathe). The Ark idea has been done many times before and is an excellent plot device but populating it with no good ne-er do well gossippers really caused me to sit back and loose my sense of suspension of disbelief. No one would go to the incredible expense of funding such a journey and then populate it with such idiots.
That said, the enhanced animal witness idea is marvelous. Lovelock is a wonderful character. I can't wait to read the next book just to see what happens to him. His thoughts about slavery and the human soul are fine reading. I just hope I don't have to wade through even more dysfunctional families to get to the real meat of this book. If I want to listen to dysfunctional people I'll just listen to Dr. Laura's radio show a while to get my fill. Still, I read it in two nights and mildly enjoyed it.
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