Sci-fy isn't just for nerds???

 For my English 114B class we were assigned to read two science fiction books by our professor. I was assigned to read Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. When I realized that these were science fiction books I right away thought to myself  "Oh great, i'm not going to understand a thing!" then i made this face --> -_______- Not to mention I couldn't understand what was going on with the picture on the books covers. But anyway as soon as I opened Ender's game and started reading the first page,  I was HOOKED. 
 The book's first chapters didn't stall to tell the reader what was going on, right away we were already given so much action and detail. Not only was it lively and so detailed I could see the scenes in my head the author gave the reader conflict. In the first chapter Andrew is getting his monitor removed which is a big deal because he gets teased for having it taken off which gets him into a fight. All of this is in the first chapter! The book starts off exhilarating and continues to be exciting, it's like i was reading it and waiting to find out what happens next.  Ender's game is really interesting it kept me sitting on edge, since I first started reading it i didn't put the book down until i was one third of the way done with the book , which I found weird because I never thought a science fictional book would be of interest to me. 
 I was surprised by the author's way of making his books interesting and relate-able. It was relate-able in the sense that I compare myself to the age of Andrew and the other child soldiers in the book and what I would've felt like going through what they are going through at that age. Everybody was once 6-9 years old, but not everybody was capable of what Andrew was capable of. I found myself in such surprise and amusement, in my opinion the books were both suspenseful. 
 Speaker for the Dead wasn't as captivating as Ender's Game i'll admit but it was still a very interesting detailed book! I say it's not as interesting of a book because honestly I don't even remember the first couple chapters and it took me much longer to finish reading this book compared to Ender's Game, though the story and book itself nonetheless was also very exciting! I especially loved the pequinos, Ender's relationship with his sister and the other characters, and the frightening drama that this book had.
 I loved how Orson Scott Card wrote the books, the futuristic style mixed with drama and emotion. He wrote these books in ways that his audience are able to relate to them. In my opinion Scott-Card is a brilliant writer, his ways with story telling is amazing. His writing style, character, details, suspense, action are all traits of what made the books so hard to put down. 
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