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Govornik za mrtve

Orson Scott Card

4.07 AVERAGE

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Love these books as audible. This one did not disappoint.
adventurous challenging medium-paced
adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ender's Game was the seminal book of my childhood. I loved it! When I read speaker, I did not like it all... It was not the Ender I wanted to read about. Rereading it as an adult was interesting. I could now understand grown up Ender but it still isn't my favorite.
slow-paced

Very bored.
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

It was fine to read, but a complete change of pace from the first book. A whole new world, people, activities.... something I wasn't entirely ready for, despite knowing that this would have to be different than the first book.

The author in the Introduction re: the Speaker for the Dead - "...that a more appropriate funeral would be to say, honestly, what a person was ans what that person did. But to me, "honesty" doesn't simply mean saying all the unpleasant things instead of saying only the nice ones. It doesn't even consist of averaging them out. No, to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-story - what they mean to do, what they actually did, what the regretted, what they rejoiced in. That's the story that we never know, the story that we never can know-and yet, at the time of death, it's the only story truly worth telling."

"Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate."

"'I'll tell your story,' said Ender. 'Then I will truly live forever.'"