# Whatcha reading Jan. (09) edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-jan-09-edition/479409 "2008-12-31T21:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 97
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-jan-09-edition/479409/97 "2009-01-11T20:44:48Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Happy New Years all! May your year be filled with good food, good fortune and good reads! First some old business from december > [@Whatcha reading Dec. (08) edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-dec-08-edition/475075/156): > > As a counterpoint while I found _Ender’s Game_ to be a decent SF novel, _Speaker for the Dead_ was absolutely horrible. > > (I’m 90% sure we’ve gone back and forth on that before so I won’t rehash it; I’m just providing a counterpoint.) I totally missed this post , so my apologies. Card in my opinion is a fast food writer better suited to young adult or teen audiences, I thought speaker was a better novel , only because of the concept of someone doing a eulogy that actually represented the disesased and telling it like it was. Such and such died , in life he was a drunk , he abused his wife and kids and stuff like that. He makes up a nice tile in the mosaic of the sf world, but thats about it. Now , on to 09 Finished Storm of Shadows by David Weber Heavy on politics and is setting the stage for Harringtons retirement to the background, as well as a forewarning by the author that some of the material will be seen in future books as seen from other eyes. Quite frankly I am hoping he (Weber) is training a new author to take over writing the series , as this one could quite frankly go another ten years before the saga is complete. With Jordan passing before he could complete his series , I am thinking this should be on Baen books future topics to bring up with DW. declan --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-jan-09-edition/479409)._