ahh, lucky you, i went through the audiobook version, and at the end Orson Card talks about this very topic

iunno go look through some torrents and hope you get lucky

I liked the book, the rest of the series is much better. I'm always happy to see good science fiction books made into movies, but I'm fairly pessimistic about this one.

I'm not the type to get all super excited and hyped about any movie adaptation of books I like. I'll see it and if it's good I'll be thrilled and if it's not good then I won't be bummed. It's not like the quality of the movie affects the quality of the book, so whatever.

I know what you mean about child actors though. They can be really hit and miss and are almost always miss. They might luck out though and get some awesome child actors, which happens every so often...

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The only other book in the series I really liked was Speaker. Xenocide was alright but nothing great. Children of the Mind I didn't even bother finishing. I've read Ender's Game like 5 or 6 times in the last 10 years and Speaker maybe 4 times and I've gotta say Ender's Game holds up the best. I was really moved by Speaker the first time I read it 8 or 9 years ago, but every time I reread Speaker I just feel more and more that the philosophical aspects of it are too goddamn heavy handed.

Ender's Game has a story that is simple and direct and doesn't get bogged down in philosophical noodling. It's just an engaging story, not a thought experiment or "vehicle" for intellectual noodling, and for that reason its message is the most clear, concise, and powerful. Speaker is certainly an engaging story, but has too much of a top-heavy "thought experiment" vibe for my liking... it most certainly is a vehicle for intellectual noodling and for that reason is less tight and feels like Card tried too hard to turn what could have been a solid mystery/suspense story with some interesting relationships between the characters into an allegory.

Xenocide had that problem in fucking spades...

I don't know why I went off on this tirade, I just feel the exact opposite of you: I felt like the Ender series just gets weaker as it goes. Ender's Game is super tight and engaging and that makes it the most effective to me. Everything after that gets a bit forced and more about Card pushing shoveling an allegory at the reader rather than just telling a compelling story and letting the story speak for itself and letting the reader draw their own conclusions.