Orson Scott Card wrote one of the best series about tolerance and acceptance ever written, and then seems to somehow not have understood it himself.
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Uff yes! It really made me question whether he actually wrote Ender's Game.
Is it worth a read? I considered it but it seemed so popular at one time and that made me think it'd be pretty mid.
I haven't read it in a bit but I think it would age pretty well. It was an excellent book.
Just don't read it in any format that gets the author any money
I'd say it's still worth reading.
Steven King. I love his characters and their arcs and the world building but he has let me down on the endings of hos books so many times that I nonlonger read his work.
I came here to post the same comment. The man writes general conversation and human interaction like a genius but the endings are just woof.
*his
*no longer
GRRM. Used to love the guy's writing but now I wish I could go back 10 years and not buy all his books in hardcover and not watch the first seasons of the show multiple times.
His mishandling of ASOIAF was the straw that broke the camel for me. I stopped watching/reading anything that isn't completed. I don't think I'm the only one either. Used to be cases like Firefly were rare... now netflix is canceling every other show after 1 season cuz they're clueless.
Robert Heinlein. I love some of the basic worldbuilding elements, I love the whole Manifest Destiny across the galaxy thing, the life extension, it all just feels like a classic American fable, but sci fi.
But, well, you can probably start seeing the conflict there too. We're just not as naive as we once were. Well, most of us anyways. But that quintessential American post-WW2 optimism from decades ago just shines through all the misogyny and exploitation, and just creates this horrifying milieu... I love it. And I hate it. Simultaneously, as I'm reading it.
Time Enough For Love in particular. Whoooboy did that book not age well.
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