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This week instead of reading a normal book, I began to listen to a book on a podcast. I had been listening to a podcast before and really was enjoying what I was hearing. So I decided to check this book out. The book is called Earthcore by Scott Sigler. It is an actual book! If you want to look at it go to http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=24.
I really enjoy the character of Kirkland. Kirkland acts so harshly towards everyone because he wants to avenge his wives death She has died some time ago but he is still holding onto her. He also pushes himself over the edge. Staying up way to late working on his projects and not caring if he is a pompous fool because of it. I really do enjoy his attitude however. People that act like idiots deserve to be made into idiots.
This book in general is a very interesting read. The characters are always getting into something and just when it is getting good the author stops and does not give you the information until the next episode. I find that reading the book like a podcast also gives you an insight more since you can hear exactly what the author envisioned the characters sounding like.
One thing I was wondering though, would you allow me to use this audio book as an AR book. Now, that would really be something. There are no text copies of the book in any of the local libraries or borders. So that means it would have to be special ordered if you required me to get it in writing. Thanks!
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Ender Wiggin is definantly not a normal human. His actions are completely different from those of his surrounding classmates. This makes me wonder if Ender is truly a gifted human or if he is one of the Buggers. The ending makes you wonder if Graff and the others also thought that Ender might be a bugger and not want to kill off his own. Although, highly unlikely this could still be a possibility. Also Ender seemed to be to content with his killing of the Bugger's. As a child you think he would have suffered much more trauma. Even for a highly gifted child emotions his emotions are highly mature for his age.
What really makes me wonder about life this week is if we can actually survive with our planet constantly being depleted of natural resources and other vital materials. A growing concern is what will happen when the Earth runs out of space. When the population hits maximum will we have to limit how many children you can have and make rations on food? Many people think that the idealistic solution would be to move a large part of the human population to the moon. Another though is that we could move some people to Antarctica with improvised living conditions. The problem with these is that they will either take too long be feasible, or would take too many necessary funds and resources to construct. As of current however, my main idea would be to move people into a space climate which would be possible with small groups of people (1000 or less) and gradually build bigger space stations until we get one the size of planet earth. This is possible but would be very time consuming to be feasible.
