Speaker for the Dead finish, and Divided Kingdom drop

This week I finished Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, and dropped Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thompson. I didn't like Divided Kingdom because it was all technical, and political, and to intellectual for me to want to read. It is about a world where the government has divided the country into four parts, each depending on your personality. the main character is sanguine, or an optimist, which is "the best nature". The book details his change from boy taken from his parents, to government official, to objector. It had to do to much with politics, and i'm not very into that so i dropped the book. However, I liked Speaker for the Dead, and would give it a 10. It explores the questions of what would happen if we ever met aliens, and if aliens can be people too. I thought these were great questions, and I really felt for the characters the whole book. Also the aliens that Card created were very interesting and i enjoyed learning about them and trying to figure them out.