Ooo... Invisible Cities sound cool. I'll definitely give that one a shot. Hm... the Kindle doesn't have it. :( Maybe I'll have to read it when I get back. :D
Yeah, I guess the reason I was thinking about Speaker for the Dead was because I was thinking about which fiction books have I enjoyed enough to read twice, and top on that list is Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus, which is an Orson Scott Card book about Christopher Columbus' life and 3 alternate futures that hinges on his actions.
I managed to slog my way through LotR back in middle school, but when I tried to read it again after the first movie came out, I found the books much easier when you basically skip all of the Frodo/Sam stuff. It falls under what I call the "Boring Protagonist" genre of books, where the protagonist is just an excuse for either an intellectual exercise (Ender's Game), or to link together awesome side characters (Water's Margin, LotR). It's something that I can tolerate enough to figure out what's awesome in the book, and then just read those parts.
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Yeah, I guess the reason I was thinking about Speaker for the Dead was because I was thinking about which fiction books have I enjoyed enough to read twice, and top on that list is Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus, which is an Orson Scott Card book about Christopher Columbus' life and 3 alternate futures that hinges on his actions.
I managed to slog my way through LotR back in middle school, but when I tried to read it again after the first movie came out, I found the books much easier when you basically skip all of the Frodo/Sam stuff. It falls under what I call the "Boring Protagonist" genre of books, where the protagonist is just an excuse for either an intellectual exercise (Ender's Game), or to link together awesome side characters (Water's Margin, LotR). It's something that I can tolerate enough to figure out what's awesome in the book, and then just read those parts.