Currently reading [updated]
Read a few good books in the past few weeks… I don’t have space for a TypeList, so here they are:
Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card – Set in the future when we find the 2nd alien race. We killed the first, and try our best to not screw up the second.
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas – Set in the early 19th century, a young sailer who has everything going for him gets wrongly accused and put in prison for 13 years. His rise back to power (and his schemes to get back at his accusers) is as good as it gets.
The Count of Monte Cristo is also a movie… I’ll have to check it out. Its got really high marks on Amazon and a decent rating at IMDB
I’ve heard they are making Ender’s Game a movie (Speaker for the Dead is the 4th in the same series), but I cannot find any details.
Update: If anyone wants to do a bookshare, I’m open. I have three more coming from Amazon… Shadow of the Hegemon, Fightclub and Survivor (another novel by Chuck Palahniuk). So, if you want any of these or the ones above, let me know what you have in exchange. Media rate is cheap.
The latest information about the Ender’s Game movie is at http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/endersgame_update.html although it was last updated Nov. 2002.
That whole series is among my all-time favorite books. There are now 3 additional sequels: Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, and Shadow Puppets, which fill in the events between Ender’s Game & Speaker for the Dead. Ender’s Shadow takes place the same time as Ender’s Game but is Bean’s story.
I read Ender’s Shadow a few years ago. I’ll have to order the other too!
It’s strange that IMDB has nothing about the Ender’s Game movie–they usually have info on upcoming films.
I’ve seen the Count of Monte Cristo movie. If you can put up with Guy Pierce’s wishy-washy attempt to be a badass, you’ll probably like it.
I have not seen the new movie (2002), but there was a 1975 version with Richard Chamberlain that got me hooked on the story. There also is a 1993 version (French) and an older 1934 version.
You can also read it at http://www.literature.org/authors/dumas-alexandre/the-count-of-monte-cristo/