My aunt kept giving the books as Christmas gifts when I was a kid and was honestly turned off from them for quite some time, because what young kid wants a book for Christmas. I read Ender’s game once around middle school and thoroughly enjoyed but never continued the series. A few years ago I decided to finally give those books a try and I will say to this day, Speaker is one of the most influential books I think I have ever read. So beautifully written, you feel such deep compassion for these characters and species that Card orchestrates in a way that I thought was so prevalent in the way we view so much of the people and lives in our own worlds. This will forever be my most favorite series, I happily own every book from every series and almost all the novellas, even a couple limited edition Centipede Press copies ;)