Well, I received and read my new copy of The Grounding of Group 6. Pretty cool trip on the wayback machine! As I was writing a few weeks ago, I read this book when I was early teen and parts of it have stuck with me ever since then. I wouldn't sayit had the staying power of something like Ender's Game, but it made a lasting impression. And it wasn't just me. Somaserious was able to tell me the name of the book after a sparse description and she seemed to agree that it was a really cool book.
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Even having read it before, the book surprised me in places. I didn't remember all the teen sexual tension in the book and I didn't remember the funny, inane adults in the book. And the end took me completely by surprise (again).
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It is much as I remembered it and parts were even better as an adult than as a kid. I'd recomend getting a copy and settling down to be alternately thrilled and amused.
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Enders Game, one of the best books ever written!!! That's a story I'll read over and over and never tire of. The character development in that story just blows me away, and the fact that they are children makes it even more amazing. I'll have to re-read The Grounding of Group Six again, too. In reading about the author, it was mentioned that many of his adult characters are always portrayed as being silly, not to be taken seriously. I think that made him a bit controversial...
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