OT: Time for another thread on books? (Retorical)

[Iron Giant]

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I just finished "Speaker for the Dead" - Orson Scott Card's sequel to my favorite SciFi book ever, "Ender's Game". I was told that "Speaker for the Dead" was better than "Ender's Game". Um, not imho. "Jane" was cool. The porquinhos were interesting, but it really didn't have the same draw to me.

I'm still trying to finish "Histories" by Herodotus. The story is really dragging through the Greek / Babylonian war. I'm 2/3 of the way through, I'll probably finish by the summer. The introduction even warns you that the first half of his book is the better part, but the 2nd siege of Babylon was worth reading...