J. Cameron's Speaker For the Dead

J. Cameron's Speaker For the Dead, no, Avatar.

Well, it's hard to make up new stories.
(I don't recall any of that from Orson Card's Speaker for the Dead, but then it was a very complex and wordy novel (Card said it was nick-named "My Dinner With Ender".)

BTW, I have tried twice, but I never even reached the middle of Avatar. Does it get better?