One of my absolute favorite books. I didn't get too far into the sequels but read Ender's Shadow immediately after it came out and am ready to buy Hegemon when it gets released next year. What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves.
Nobody understands anybody.
And yet somehow we live together, mostly in peace, and get things done with a high enough success rate that people keep trying. Muddling through, that's what human beings do. My bowling career has taken a turn for the better. I bowled a 161 with some friends last weekend. Probably a triple shot with just enough soda to turn it a dark color.