Stuff I’ve Read, Watched, Done – June 20, 2022

Life is busy, and including home-life, but still includes a fair amount of TV viewing.

My Thoughts on “Ender’s Game”

I was not particularly looking forward to Ender’s Game, the recent movie.  I thought it’d be a challenging work to translate without sacrificing the potentially “unfilmable” (as some would say) psychological story and focusing merely on glitzy space battles.  The advanced trailer didn’t necessarily give me a positive buzz either.  But I was introduced to the book by Orson Scott Card not long ago, and enjoyed it quite a bit.  More than that, I have found reading its sequels (of which I have read two so far – Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide) to be extremely compelling and emotionally churning experiences.  Then a friend gave me a positive report, so off to the theaters I went this evening with my wife.