ORSON SCOTT CARD - ENDER IN EXILE BOOK TRAILER

[Joerosenbarger]

@aquasaber ... No Im not, but I know bullshit when I hear it. Thanks for the question.

[Joerosenbarger]

This guy is so full of himself. There is a southern saying that gos something like "full of shit as a Christmas goose".

[aquasaber]

@Joerosenbarger ...and you're qualified to make that judgment because you're another hugely successful writer yourself, right?

[happiful1]

@Joerosenbarger He's so full of himself that he spends time praising the comics.

[calladus123]

so...wait, is enders game the first book? can someone tell me the chronological order of the books? because ive read two, enders game (wich im not done with) and shadow of hedgemon.

[thedarklygifted]

@calladus123 they're kinda confusing. . . it's remarkably difficult to read them in the correct 'order'. Card follows two main characters in his Kids in Space novels, Ender and Bean. OF course he still has flashes to other characters that seem uninvolved but become crucial in the end, but basically the storylines and the novels themselves follow around Ender and Bean. Now the problem with this, is that ender and Bean don't really have much direct interaction after Battle School. Contd.

[thedarklygifted]

@calladus123 So you'll really have two books for each period of time. For example, Ender's Game is the story of battle school and the destruction of the buggers from Ender's perspective. Ender's Shadow is the same timeline (basically) from Bean's perspective. The books continue on that way, but will occasionally cross-reference one another.

[calladus123]

@thedarklygifted ohh thanks.

[LomoBrowncoat]

Having just gotten into Ender's universe, I can't say which is the best. But I can definitely say I'm happy with the order I'm ready them in, as follows:

Ender's Game

A War of Gifts

Ender in Exile

First Meetings (In Ender's Universe)

Speaker for the Dead (*currently reading)

And I'm told the Ender's Shadow series is just as good (if not better, depending who you ask). So you have that to consider.

But you should definitely read the short story Investment Counselor before you read Speaker for

[bloodfox1000]

@LomoBrowncoat atually the shadow books r after ender`s game then when u finish giant it goes back to ender

[SmexyTrailerz]

I read Enders game and though it was amazing. Anyone know what's the next best book in the series?

[AcidBong]

@SmexyTrailerz I hold both Enders Game and Enders Shadow in equal high regards. Bean, is an awesome character! I'm now making my way through Shadow of the Giant. The entire series is remarkable.

[JuanCRios7]

@SmexyTrailerz Enders Shadow

[thesignal2011]

To cast the movie, search for Dillon Stevens. He is perfect to play Ender. He can act and dance. Great control of the body will be needed for the Zero Gravity Battle School scenes. Dillon could easily span the age range. Look at him.

[EnthalpyH]

For some reason I'm hoping there will never be an Ender's game movie. I would be afraid my imagination of the series would be completely attenuated by incompetent film directors.

[cyborgjohnny]

That's an awesome concept (I read in the 80's) which ironically seems to parallel my Gulf War experience, settling in NC, and not returning to NYC. I know OSC lives in Greensboro, & no offense, but I am not... home.

[gaozhi2007]

it boggles my fucking mind how the hollywood execs let the rights to this lapse and are content with bullshit remakes and farty reboots, yet they won't give us a movie we have been begging for for the last 20 fucking years. a movie that, if done right, has the potential to be the greatest sci-fi blockbuster of all-time, and one we would literally throw wheelbarrows of money. but no. keep giving us conan- the retardarian and justin beiber 3d: who stole my dick?

[gmdinformation]

I like Card's stories, but the trait of his writing that you're praising is exactly what most people don't like about his style. He's a stream of consciousness writer, and that invariably means constantly telling the reader everything that's going on in the minds of the characters instead of allowing the reader the pleasure of figuring things out for him/herself. Xenocide is the best example of this and the worst of the series by far. Mr. Card eschews the _show, don't tell_ maxim to a fault.

[PierzStyx]

@gmdinformation See Xenocide is one of my favorites of the series. and its because he delves so much into the characters and the philosophy of the universe they live in that I absolutely love.

[BUDDY6414724297]

Orson Scott Card

GO! GO! GO!

[MrAaronforpresident]

ender's game is probably one of the best books i've ever read.

[gotohemp]

Orson Scott Card is a Conservative gay basher

Not even joking

[PierzStyx]

@gotohemp Really because I know he is conservative and is against gay marriage but I haven't heard him say one thing that is actually hateful of gays, just where he disagrees with them. That is very different from "gay bashing". You don't have to agree with everyone in order to respect them. By your logic anyone who is for gay marriage and opposed to those who are against it would be "straight bashers" which they of course are not.

[pjk12]

MAKE THE FREAKING MOVIE ALREADY!!!

[ubernub43]

I'm 12 years old, reading this book and it's awesome. It's really strange because I hate books, and for the last 2 years I have only completely read only 1 chapter book. I had to read this book for my language arts class.

[bshma]

@ubernub43 really only one?



[MasterGamer123sas]

This would make an amazing movie if made into one. I read the book when I was 12 years old and still read them today!

[Ruens07]

BEST BOOKS EVER!!!!! i lost my xenocide book halve ways. i think ima buy it again. dang. wut happens .haha

[shartdartfart]

ender's game is the worst thing i have ever read

[PCEggo]

@shartdartfart boooooo!

[XboxSongProductions]

@shartdartfart And yet you took your time to look for a video about Enders Game and type down a comment , your a scrub kid go die

[shartdartfart]

@XboxSongProductions it doesn't take my whole day to post one comment, you retard. and it's you're. little boy

[KairiHawkeye]

I prefer to say that I belong to the wave who loved Ender's Game dearly but were disappointed with his other works which tried to cut loose ends and make the plot more wholly. The Shadow quartet didn't do it for me, except Ender's Shadow. And because I read them in story order, I was too glad to be freed from the Shadow quartet to be very optimistic about Ender in Exile. I tried to enjoy it wholeheartedly.

I did. Though I was disappointed at so many things, so many.

[jpdomi]

I really wish there was a sequel to Children of the Mind, there's a lot to be explained, like Jane. So much potential, he must see that.

[zen1234]

@jpdomi he wrote a series of short stories called first meetings, where ender first encounters jane. 

[mytubecoolness]

read the ender series also read the shadow of the hedgemon series they are the best sci fi books i have ever read.

[fluyingmonkeyinc]

always pictured him skinnier 

[badboy12380]

I never knew that there was a continuation to enders game

[ansharzero]

I just read Ender's Game -> Ender in Exile -> Speaker for the Dead -> Xenocide, and am currently about 3/4ths of the way through Children of the Mind. Anyone who thinks all the books after Ender's Game suck, simply are wrong. The books have more more depth, and a lot of philosophical discussion takes place that I never realized was within the scope of an author who claims to be a Mormon. They're very well written, besides a few contradictions and hypocrisies that never seem to get resolved.

[gaozhi2007]

@ansharzero

because all mormons are limited in their scope? what do you know about mormons? clearly nothing.

[bribri4179]

I am going to marry Ender Wiggin.

[ClevverTv24]

omg Orson SCott card is BRILLIANT!!! His books are amazing <3 i luv them!! :D I hope you do well, and PLZ write more books!! :D I can't wait for SHADOWS IN FLIGHT, and im confused...is there gonna be a Ender's Game movie? that would be aweosme!!!

[meteorainer]

You guys are crazy. All the sequels were good, so was the spinoff shadow series.

[blackberryirce]

hope somebody makes a movie of enders game

[TheAuraAngel]

Well, as far as the books go, Ender's Game tends to be the best as it hooks you into it the best. A lot of people prefer the Shadow Series because it expands on Petra and Peter and of course Bean. Whereas as the sequels for Ender's Game were slower paced. But in my opinion Speaker > Any book in the shadow series.

Exile was really good. You probably would need to read Ender's Game at least though. But the last little bit, though rushed, was awesome. Ender Wiggin doesn't lose. And it showed that.

[AfterShockPivot]

god they made it look stupid

[meteorainer]

holy crap holy crap holy crap how did i not know he had written this???!?!?! MUST HAZ NOW!

[darkcara]

i'm about half way through ender in exile. next to ender's game and ender's shadow, this is my favorite. i'm really hoping to get the comics (i can't find them in borders!) also, i hope that there will be a movie or video game of this series some day ^__^ that would be epic

[tcook7149]

@darkcara TRY YOUR LOCAL COMIC BOOK SHOP

[malcommerriweather]

I have got to get these comics. Such a huge fan of the series. Maybe it's because I'm a "third"

[SavyM123]

I would say that Orson Scott Card is one of the best sci-fi writers of all time. The way he writes being so insightful and psychologically curious, in this interview he speaks like the novels are mere and simple. This man, I credit immensely for his talent in writing. One doesn't stop reading to think about what the author was thinking when he wrote a particular part, because it is as smooth and unpredictable as a real life story. The Ender series are a fantastic piece of writing. Period.

[heeromistress]

@SavyM123 i agree. ender's game is one of my favorite books of all time. it's actually the book that got me into reading in the first place :) ... i think him and anne mccaffrey are the best scifi writters.

[ytiger100]

@SavyM123 i was thinking exactly the same thing. O.S.C is the best

[eatmeimsteak]

@SavyM123 check out john e stithe too, he's pretty good.

[ReligiousReidBaer]

Enders Game SUCKS big time!

[ReligiousReidBaer]

Plus, I beat Orson Scott Card at YouTube!

[tshaylin]

ender's game was amazing, and speaker for the dead wass very good as well, but yes, the ender sequels dont improve much i've found

[FreshmenVlog]

Really? I LOVED Ender's Game and HATED HATED HATED the 'sequels'.

[2569080]

man i reading a sequal right now i LOVE the ender books

[soocool78]

The sequals we're not meant to be action - packed books, they are focused on alien and human relations. The sequels are very good but do not expect them to be Ender's game

Now i suggest that you read the Shadow series, the first book (shadow of the hegemon) is Ender's game but from bean's perspective. But the sequels to that book is actually all about land side war and world politics. And those ARE action packed and very good

[sgtzach]

its actually enders shadow that is beans point of view during the events of enders game

[soocool78]

oh yea i knew that whoops

[TheGodofAtheists]

@FreshmenVlog same they were really dry and political orientated

[FDude11111]

Is it as good as Enders game?

[70clacker]

if you read the whole series, yes it is better then enders game

[ET3RNA4]

Read this game in 8th grade...

DEFINETLY EPIC!

[frozen540]

Well i just got done reading the very first book. I was reading the Shadow children series because i got interested in them. well i got to 10th grade. and :P they don't have any of the shadow children but my teacher recommended this book and like i said i finished the first 1 today it was great.. kinda ended a little different than i thought tho because it ended after i thought it was originally going to.

[AssassinSkills]

the shadow series kicks all asses

[Epeaf]

I have to admit, Bean's storyline was far more interesting in my eyes, it keeps to an action-based storyline

[forallya]

Read Enders Game in 8th grade loved it. Just got to Enders shadow in 12th grade. I love these books these 2 books are my favorite by far!!

[run2it93]

i did the same thing but i started speaker junior year

[HongminZhu]

Bean owns Ender, Ender sucks.

[frostythesn0wman]

I read this in the 8th grade, good book

[jplume]

there are two stories, ender's and bean's

if you have not read bean's story, imagine ender, on mental steroids. I liked it much, much better. bean ftw.

but i recommend everyone read the entire saga of both. great series, great writing. i just picked up ender's shadow again a few days ago and about half way through, such a good book.

[wackyfunenergy]

this book is amazing!! the first one i read for school. next year. i just finished it today!!! i thought it would be horrible! its awesome, amazing! i love it! make the second part!

[sumofat5]

man i really wish this guys wasn't a homophobe

[pivotkp]

oh my god i just finished reading enders game today and i was fantastic!!!!!!

wonder what happend to bean after a few years....

[LEGION1116]

Read the Ender's shadow series. The first one is Ender's game from Bean's perspective. The rest of the are about his role in earth politics.

[Vrexin]

i just finished it today also! :D i really like it, it was incredible

[bunchanumbers4192207]

i just started in on this book, right after i finished enders game and enders shadw, i thought enders shadow was better than enders game.

[nickshorty]

Bean is true genius. I loved that book because it shows you how smart bean really always was.

The whole shadow series was great, very interesting political insight.

[bunchanumbers4192207]

indeed

[KipSP]

these are the best book ive ever read, both the bean series and the ender series(though i like bean better), i read enders game, and now im reading all of the books following it religiously

[xXcynicalMINDXx]

yeah i like the nonhuman genetic experiment too!

[KipSP]

lol

[EddyDraks]

I liked Ender's Game but I thought Speaker for the Dead was the better book.

[TheSlickAndroid]

@EddyDraks I never finished Speaker for the Dead. I just couldn't get through it. Probably because I was expecting it to be more of a straight up sequel to Ender's game that would be similar to it,I probably should of thought of it as more of a story of its own instead. I didn't really like it that much though.

[zteller]

Reading the book now. Likin' it so far and he just got promoted to commander of Dragon Army

[SerielThriller]

does anybody know where you can get any of this book a words document of the web, for free? thanks

[Adamlikesguys]

Why would you not just buy the book? Are you that much of a cheap fuck? Haha.

[SerielThriller]

i would, and ive looked in a lot of book shops, i havent been able to get any to order it

[EnderTXenocide]

just torrent for the .pdf documents they are alllllll over the internet.

[alexthecasualgamer]

Ender's Game is my favourite book ever, but somehow I feel that a comic book wouldn't be able to do it justice. You take the depth and emotion from scene's like the Stilson one, and put it into some dorky cartoon form. It just doesn't work.

[smerk]

the comic book will do more justice than the movie studios will.

so excited and filled with dread to finally see it on the big screen one day.

[KipSP]

i think if they found the right director then it could be a good movie, just the actors would be hard, they would have to get 6 year olds who could play the role of a 30 year old

[TheSlickAndroid]

@KipSP I think the director/writer of District 9 would be a great choice for making an Ender's Game movie.

[yakrocks]

they should give scott card a medal or something for writing EG

[Kewnaii]

Enders game would be the best video game ever o.o lol anyways THIS ISH MY FAV BOOK

[BovineFreedo]

I have read this book and i liked it, i have been a fan of orson scott card for years and years, but this time i have to disagree with him. The book is relentless when it comes to name dropping, so i advice you to read at least enders game and the shadow series. When that is said there is A LOT of nuances that changes during this series. I tend not to read them as flaws, but either character development, or the authors attempt to get it just right.

[TheDigitalMonk]

Video game rights?! If done right... YES PLEASE

[narutozelda]

i need to read this book, Enders books are the best in the world!!!

[demonkid16]

Man, I need to read this one. Ender's Game is my favorite book of all time, I haven't read A war of Gifts or Ender in Exile... and here I called myself a fan.

[TheAuraAngel]

Oh God I want to meet this guy. Everything about Card just says you could get along with him. The Ender and Shadow series were some of the best books Ive ever read.

Yeah Peter> Ender> Bean.

[starfishsicko]

If I was half as good a writer as Card, I could die happy.

Also Peter>Ender.

[Dotsamin]

this man is my idol, he an amazing story teller i think his books should be read by all

[tallboi209]

can anybody please reply to me and tell me what was Andrew "Ender" Wiggins first name before the editors made orson scott card change it?

[Ellidora]

Andrew was always his first name I think...idk. I'd nver heard that there was a change....

[Ellidora]

Duuuuude!!! Ender's supposed to have black hair!!!

Sorry...I love Ender's Game and Ender...but he's supposed to have black hair.

Anyway, Exile was beautiful, but it kinda sux for bean fans, b/c beans' still floating ot in the middle of nowhere...

[ender0041]

all ender books are worth it... i ve been reading alot of sci ficc books ... and ender^games is the best one

[Enderwiggan1]

I am Ender Wiggan and I will have my revenge

[kadjrare]

its wiggin homie. get your name right

d(-_-)b

[Ellidora]

Whoa whoa whoa, wait a minute.

First off, you spelled the name wrong, and it's not like it's obscure or anything so...way to fail.

Plus...Ender never wants revenge. Ever. His entire fighting style is so that there IS no revenge, or if there is, it's his enemies who want revenge on him. Ender never loses. Read the books dude.

[Fianna10]

You're an idiot, who would be commenting here that didnt read the books?? Also how do you know he never wanted revenge? Are you O.S Card?? I seriously doubt it, and so what if they spelled it wrong....GET A LIFE!!!

[Ellidora]

It's easy to find a bunch of random movies on youtube, it doesn't have to mean that you've read the books. Plus, I know that Ender doesn't want revenge because I HAVE read all the books, and it's completely against Ender's character. In fact, his whole fighting style is based on NOT having revenge. That's just how it is.

[Fianna10]

1) If you honestly think someone with the username Enderwiggan1 who is commenting on an Enders Game video hasnt read the books, you're obviously mental, so in your words "Way to fail"

2) Who are you to explicitly claim that Ender didnt want revenge when that was never stated by the author?

3) Youd think that someone from Ireland which has one of the richest literary traditions of any country would have the foresight to realise that BOOKS ARE OPEN TO INTERPRETATION

[Ericwong2ooo]

The thing is. i bought both ender and the shadow series at the same time. but. i didn't start reading the shdw series until ender in exile came out. so i actually read exile before i started the shdws. I can tell where bean ending is going. it looks disappointing, but also it seems to make logical sense. and ender's ending felt alil bit like a disney's ending, but it also fitted the part really well. but one would wonder if scott card would do a series on the childen of the mind.

[DragonmagRT]

I enjoyed both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. As for comparing both the original series and the branch story, I prefer the Ender's Shadow storyline. It is just more engaging.

[DragonmagRT]

Just finished reading the book. Enjoyed it immensely! Definitely one to just sit down and read all the way through.

[Ericwong2ooo]

I've Read all of the Ender's Series and it was EPIC. none of any of the single books was my favorite cause i saw it as a complete series. and the whole thing was the best. I'm now reading the Shadows Series and It is so good that i can almost say it's better than the ender series but i can't say that cause it was also very much epic. Both series is worth reading.

[Ellidora]

Uhhh...put that series down. Right now. Do not pick it up again ever. EVER!!! The ending is TOTALLY not worth it. I'm not going to screw it up for you, but seriously, don't finish it! the ending stinks!!!!

[Ericwong2ooo]

well i'm just on the verge of finishing the last shadow book. ur kinda late lol. but yea so far it's still been very good. but i'll let u know what i think when i finish it

[Ellidora]

If you truly want to finish the series, you're going to have to read Ender in Exile. That puts to rest a lot of the cliffhangers at the end of Shadow of the Giant. Even with the brilliant ending of Exile, Bean still has a crappy ending. But if you like it, that's your choice. I'm sure there are many that don't like Ender's ending, but for the most part I'm pretty happy with it. Be sure to let me know what you think when you're done with Shadow of the Giant though. :-D

[Ericwong2ooo]

seeing how there is techinically a new species and a story that could be written. but. i'm on the very verge of finishing the gaint.

[bneg303]

i did not view bean that way! 1:50

[Ankhalianet]

LoL me neither. But for some odd reason I always imagined Bean to look like that bacon-loving kid in Even Stevens...

[DJESKAII]

god dammit.

[runningfrog43]

Bean pwns Ender, lol.

[pspnigga187]

i kinda agree

[esj8341]

Next: Ender versus Alien versus Rambo!!!

[kometman]

Who'd win that one you think?

[thesnake52000]

Haha, Ender of course!

[kometman]

Let the bodies hit the floor!

But that would seriously make a good movie. In the sequel, ender is trying to live a life in peace but as he enters a new planet he finds out there are PREDATORS and TERMINATOR ROBOTS there.

[redrising9815]

couldn't he come up with something else? he basically killed ender by prolonging the series. only the first 3 books are worth reading.

[thesnake52000]

Children of the Mind is not worth reading?!

[redrising9815]

I stand by my statement. Only the first 3 are worth reading. Everything else regarding the Chinese planet and the Japanese planet, the virus alien, the whole trying to kill his AI friend are crap.

I also didn't like his Bean spin off. Trying to make his brother into a saint is unbelievable.

[FFXIHit]

They're all worth reading, and peter was never a truly evil person.. he was a child, get over it. Once again.. they're all worth reading, don't listen to this moron, the bean books are some of his best work.

[redrising9815]

you're just a fucking idiot who don't know anything. Peter wanted to conquer the world since he was a kid. Card just make him into this supposed complex saint and failed miserably. Everybody wants to root for the good guy so Card made him into into it in order to sell books.

The first two books of the Ender's Game series are very good and that's why they won awards. Later books just fail miserably so they didn't win any award. From a literary standpoint, the later books are crap.

[JacksonSpaz]

Yeah, winning no huge awards means a book is horrible, right

-___-

I enjoyed Xenocide and Children of the Mind even more than Ender's Game. Speaker of the Dead is my absolute favoriate, but the last two are also great achievements. Fleshing out Novinha's family, and the relations between the two species.

Plus, the existential and philosophical issues [and "theories" you could say] that the books rose are fantastic in and of themselves. They have lent themselves to some great discussions.

[FFXIHit]

I agree with Jackson here, the ideas expressed in the later Ender and Bean books are truly worth reading. It would be pretty sad to live in a world where writers didn't evolve their characters to continue to tell a story. :(

[Ellidora]

Speaker for the Dead is totally my favorite, but I kinda fell in love with the whole Outside idea. I mean, how cool is that?!

[Kmg0]

Peter was a kid with an anger problem. Not a super villain.

[HeavyMetalPL]

Thx for upload this vid :)