Ender's Game
I was once a big Orson Scott Card fan. The number of Orson Scott Card books I own may still outnumber any single other author on the dozens of bookshelves in my home. I read his works voraciously in college and in my early 20s. I read the Ender saga, the Alvin Maker series, the Homecoing Saga, and assorted other books and short stories of his. I recently re-read Ender's Game and still enjoyed it. At some point in reading his books, however, I suddenly stopped, because I felt like I was reading the same story over and over again -- the same boy messiah saving the human race -- and I disagreed with the theology underpinning it. But I enjoyed all those stories of his up until that time. I still do, when I read them. I recently re-read Ender's Game and found myself wanting to read them all over again, or start reading the later books in the series that I never read, or the Shadow Saga. But between the time I was the big Orson Scott Card ...