Ender’s Game
9/12/20 Knock knock 😉
When the days get shorter, it is so nice to tuck in and read under warm lights. I don’t care about the format of books —- papers, e-readers, English, Chinese … whatever is cheaper 🙂 I don’t like to borrow books as during my reading, I scribble, I draw, and I mark 🙂 Which-book-to-read is a very personal thing. New York Best Sellers usually do not work for me. I have read Murakami Haruki because his Paris Review interviews resonated with me. I started reading Shakespeare lately because hey, you just cannot escape from stupidities this year and I need a break. I read more science fictions lately than before. I had a science fiction idea back in my mind for a while now. It has not developed much until recently, I got inspired by a random conversation and had one piece filled. I am very excited about it.
I was cooking and my son was drawing on the floor.
I made a bookmark from his drawing.
Ender’s Game is a beginner science fiction. It is easy to read. Many people read it in one sitting.
- this book talks about the extraterrestrial life: We are making constant efforts looking for extraterrestrial life. The approach is to analyze the light spectrum captured and look for the element of C. This book has a very interesting vision on what some extraterrestrial life may look like. It’s called buggers. They action in swarms. They do not have languages but can synchronize their brains instantly. They can know what people are thinking and have interesting ways to communicate with people.
- this book shows one category of the best people: they are precise, they work super hard, they finish it.
- this book is touching at the end. Human beings are no longer bounded to the earth but settling in space. It reads realistic and achievable.
- I can connect this with DARPA projects 🙂
- I am curious how many people can visualize all these fight scenes and positions. I was totally failing. Converting text to video certainly requires high intelligence. As a result, I feel the book has a very strange rhythm, very slow for the first 12 chapters and then suddenly there are many things happening in the last 2 or 3 chapters.
- Chinese parents need to read it. My mom does not let me use microwave even when I was 20. But hey, kids are very intelligent!