
Wyrms
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Narrated by:
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Emily Janice Card
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By:
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Orson Scott Card
Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. For she has learned the true ruler's honor: that duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self. But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. Patience must journey to the heartsoul of this planet to confront her destiny...and her world's.
Wyrms is an Orson Scott Card classic, one of the novels that helped forge his young career.
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"A wonderful, textured fable." ( Publishers Weekly)
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As usual for OSC, the plot is tight and fast-paced, the writing is gorgeously spare, and the characters are unforgettable. From the royal court of Heptem to the caves of Cranning, you will never forget this book once you've read it - or listened to it, as the case may be. This book has had a permanent place on my shelf for many years, and I was thrilled to see that it's finally been released as an audio book. It will have a permanent place in my audio library as well, along with Card's other masterworks.
With her performance of Wyrms, Emily Card firmly establishes herself as a true equal to the other brilliant narrators Card audio fans know and love: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle DeCuir, and Scott Brick. Ms. Card's reading and character voices are spot on and a delight to listen to.
Even if you've never read or listened to an OSC book before, but are a fan of science fiction, do yourself a huge favor and spend the credit or the cash on this somewhat obscure title. You will not regret it.
Card fans, don't miss this one!
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But as lovely as the fantasy creatures are, this is not a children's book. It contains some rather graphic violence and quite a bit of talk of sexual desire. It is handled fairly tactfully and is not senseless but intertwines deeply into the questions of good and evil, power and weakness, free will and slavery with many thought-provoking ideas.
Very curious
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Orson Scott Card is brilliant as usual!
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Superb Characterization
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It was full of awesome ideas. I loved that. The heads in the jars preserved by alien lifeforms... awesome. The genetic basis of the story and the interaction of different species are compelling. Here is a book which is not about aliens attacking humans or humans attacking aliens. The alien life-form chose to mix with the human genes in order to survive, moreover, to produce a much more dominant new race. The memory-storing crystals in people's mind was also an excellent idea, especially because it could be passed to the next generation.
This being said, I almost fell asleep when the characters gave philosophical speeches to each other. Maybe I'm a shallow guy who easily get bored over deep philosophical thoughts, but my finger was itching to push the fast forward button. At some points I even considered giving up.
There are some very, I mean very disturbing events in the story. I already found odd how Patience dealt with his father's head. However the most awful thing was the mating between the heroine and the worm-like UnWyrm. Not only the act itself, but what happened right after that. I would have thrown the book on the ground if it wasn't on my smartphone.
Some of the characters simply irritated me. If I were the author I would have killed the fat woman character early in the book.
I still cannot decide if it was a brilliant or a very bad book.
Weird book
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Unique
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Would make a cool movie
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Great start to end
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Wryms (worms) is well written but falls short of The Lord of the Rings (probably a bad example - comparing 1 book to 3 books.
however, I really did enjoy the story. the narration was very good.
the thing I liked about the book the best was that the hero, who becomes the planetary leader, make changes making the government more fair and having a leader with integrity who wants to do the best for her people.
Not my favorite story from Olsen Scott Card
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I love author's notes
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