• Aneb@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Lmao I just started reading some of Card’s series, notably Wakers and Ender’s Game. And there’s a lot of misogyny and Conservative ideas rattling in his ramblings.

    I’ve heard good things about Earthsea so I’ll look into her other works

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      6 days ago

      I loved enders game as a kid. I see it as a sign of growth that I now realize how cringe that was.

    • CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 days ago

      I’ll admit that I actually do really like Card’s writing, and I don’t deny that Ender’s Game (and Ender’s Shadow and Speaker for the Dead!) are great books. I read them a lot when I was younger and don’t specifically recall any hidden conservatism, especially because he seemed to have multiple viewpoints in the books. But the man himself is a piece of bigoted trash, so I would only buy used books from him now.