Reviews for Call of Earth (Homecoming Series #2), Vol. 2

The average rating for Call of Earth (Homecoming Series #2), Vol. 2 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-14 00:00:00 Daniel Evans Slow start, great finish... another character, idea, and theology study with just enough story in it to be readable and interesting. There was one great dialogue that I thought was pretty thought provoking regarding belief in God. Which of the following is belief in God? A) just a choice: based on preference rather than evidence B) an undeniable fact: the only way to possibly explain the evidence C) a deniable but probable fact (like a scientific theory): the most likely way to explain the evidence D) kind of a working hypothesis: one of many equally likely ways to explain the evidence, chosen from those ways based on preference (Nafai's theory). "The Oversoul has never fooled me," said Nafai. "Those who follow the Oversoul willingly are never lied to." "You never catch the Oversoul in his lies, is what you mean," said Moozh. "No!" cried Nafai. "No. The Oversoul doesn't lie to me because . . . because everything that it has promised me has come true. All of it has been true." "Or it has made you forget the ones that didn't come true." "If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly," said Nafai. "But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. I follow the Oversoul, I believe the Oversoul, because I want to live in the world that the Oversoul has shown me." "Yes, Earth," said Moozh scornfully. "I don't mean a planet, I mean-I want to live in the reality that the Oversoul has shown me. In which lives have meaning and purpose. In which there's a plan worth following. In which death and suffering are not in vain because some good will come from them." "All you're saying is that you want to deceive yourself." "I'm saying that the story the Oversoul tells me fits all the facts that I see. Your story, in which I'm endlessly deceived, can also explain all those facts. I have no way of knowing that your story is not true-but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I'll choose the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me-your life, your view of life-is the lie. And it is a lie. You don't even believe in it yourself."

Review # 2 was written on 2009-04-08 00:00:00 Scott Stone Orson Scott Card has managed to do what Robert Jordan could not: he develops a world, characters, history, politics and blends it all together so seamlessly that you forget that it is just a story. Like Robert Jordan's books, the cast has grown and the world has become more intricate in its politics and deeper in its culture, but unlike Jordan, Card pulls it all together. As a writer, I just shake my head with my mouth hanging open. How did he do it? In The Call of Earth, the Oversoul realizes that it doesn't have all the answers. Maybe it needs to depend on the wisdom and wit of humans to find the answers. So begins another journey in the Homecoming series.