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Thanks. I really enjoy what I've read so far.

No, Card does not explicitly declare that in the quotation I posted. (Did you mean elsewhere in his review?) He's saying: It's a hostile reading if it's skeptical rather than "with…

I'm understanding the term "hostile reading" as Card defines it in the above quotation. A hostile reader is one who approaches a book skeptically or is forced to read it (in the se…

That's not how I interpret him. Here's the quotation with more context: "Of course, those who approached Ender's Game skeptically or because they were 'forced' to read it can hardl…

"No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading." Is that really true? The first Orwell book I read ( Homage to Catalonia ) was required for a history class -- a class that h…