“Speaker for the Dead was not my cup of tea. I enjoyed the first book in the Ender series, but this book was nothing like it. I almost don’t believe that the two could have been written by the same author. Speaker for the dead was filled on future religious sects, anthropological mumbo jumbo, and worst of all, too many characters with too bizarre of names to remember :-( I wanted to enjoy this book, I really did, but Orson Scott turned a good plot into a bad novel.”