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Summary: I never get tired of reading it
Review: I just re-read Ender's Game for the 4th time. I suspect that i will never get tired of reading this book. The story is spellbinding and the stuggles and joys of Ender make you nervous and joyful for him and with him throughout the novel. A must read for all readers, not just science fiction readers.
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Summary: Best Book I Have Ever Read!
Review: Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card is by far the best book I have ever read. It combines drama with science fiction which in this case is a wonderful idea. From the beginning to the end Card has you wanting to know what's going to happen next. Ender is this innocent child who has everyone and almost everything figured, he can anticipate what will happen next to him. From when he was born the government took him under their wing looking after him and hoping he would be the one they wanted to take them into battle against the buggers. Once they decided that they wanted him he started going to military school for them to take over his life and turn him into their prospective of a perfect general. Once he passes military school with flying colors they graduate him to Command school where he will learn his last bit of training by learning from the greatest commander in the history of the human race. Once he is in command school he plays a series of games or so he thinks, he is actually controlling the actual fleet that is fighting the buggers. On the last fight which he thinks is a game he does a crazy stunt which blows up the entire race of buggers. Later he finds out that it was real and he had killed off the bugger's race he passes out for a day! He wakes to find that there is a widespread war on Earth. To stay protected Valentine and himself go off to the old bugger planet to colonize it and find the unborn queen and try to find a place for her to stay where she'll be undisturbed.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: I have read this entire series of books and they are all must read books
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Summary: Ender
Review: Sci-fi lover or not, this book might be for you. Ender's Game is a story which has created a following. The next 3 books in the series are much more adult in content told at a more subtle pace. In them, the continuation and maturity of thoughts brought forth in this initial masterpiece of a story of a brilliant child with a military mind and a savior's heart unfolds. Although people can relate to the story whether they see themselves inside of it or not, it has capivated an audiences of young and brilliant minds as well as provided a key to leadership tactics with every reread. I hardly read sci-fi so I was reluctant to pick up this book once recommended, but continued through the series of all 4 at a rapid pace. It devoured me inside and I escaped with my mind juiced with a vision of philotics, societal tendancies, and humanity I could only hold in thought for moments at a time. Card put words to the concepts behind the world's makeup, human makeup, and relationship. Some done brilliantly, others I disagreed with or felt were left undone, yet I was always happy to see his ability to swiftly get a concept across. I'm not a sucker for prolific writing styles, rather suffering from a necessity to not be bored, and this book and series delivered. My only regret is that after reading the news that Card wanted someone to write Shadow for him before changing his mind and reclaiming the project, I didn't send him my notes on what I'd already had in mind. Turns out he came through again. If you fancy yourself as smarter than most, had a childhood of more brains than were popular, or harbor desires to save the world, this first book (or Ender's Shadow) will suck you in. If you have a desire to find words to put behind your theories of HOW and WHY, the next 3 are for you too.
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Summary: Enders Shadow parallels this one! Great Book!
Review: I loved it! Enders Shadow paralleled this one and it is soooo interesting to see the two points of view! This one is going to be A CLASSIC! Just watch! I loaned it to my husband who reads nothing but Sci Fi and he began loaning it to everyone at his work place! Excellent!
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Summary: Highly entertaining, and punctuated by a few true gems.
Review: Ender's Game is a highly compelling if slightly adolescent page-turner which, in addition to an entertaining plot, has a few excellent and truly original concepts. In some ways, Ender is a kind of teenage Howard Roark (see Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"), but is several degrees more entertaining, several steps back from the abstract abyss, and at times, however, even less psychologically plausible. One of the most interesting concepts, and a profound thought experiment for the development of identity in the digital age, is a pair of teens who become influential world leaders despite the fact that their personae exist only on Card's nascent vision of the net, as pseudonymous personae hiding the fact that their alter egos actually are just emerging from puberty. Well worth it, but do not give in to the temptation you may feel to read the sequels, which are almost unrecognizably different in style, pace, and artificial depth.
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Summary: Pretty Good, but didn't deserve two awards
Review: This is a good "beach book." A quick read while on vacation, but it certainly doesn't deserve four and 1/2 stars. It was never thought provoking, which good science fiction should be, and it was completely predictable. Basically, it's about a bunch of kids playing war games, with some pop psychology thrown in for good measure. Card should have delved into the aliens more. In fact, I was surprised he waited until the end and then gave them cursory explanation. For an excellent sci fi read, pick up The Child Garden by Geoff Rymann instead.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Excellent thought-provoking book. Excellent for even non sci-fi fans. Go out and buy this book.
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Summary: Very good book, but...
Review: Please don't read my review if you havn't read the book yet (it spoils the ending).I just want to give my own point of view about this book. Most of all, "how I felt" about this book is important to me: while I was reading it, and enjoying it a lot, I couldn't care less about humanity destiny, and just like many other readers I cared especially about Ender's feelings, one time even crying for them. But at the mid-part of the book I was expecting something like a revenge against the teachers, considered by Ender to be "the real enemies". Actually, I found myself hoping for it. So, as a reader, I found disappointing the fact that this "revenge" never comes, letting room for a plot that seems to give more credits to "goal achieving", as if the fact that Ender saved humanity could repay him for every suffering he went through. It does not, and I think the author knows that well. The ending may seem happy, but I found it very sad, unsatisfying, disturbing. Ender doesn't win over his "real enemies", the ones who took his childhood away, the ones who didn't care to use him as a tool, the ones who end up happy to have achieved their goal. It looks like Ender never loses, but he's losing all the time: at the end he only feels sorry and "condemned to pain". That's how I see it: this book is sad and a little disturbing because the "bad guys" actually win at the end. I consider this book a real work of art, but as a reader, I like happy endings. (I've seen a movie starring Jodie Foster about a genius-child, and that ending I liked a lot) If you want to write to me: giuseppe.todesca@tecnofin.it
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Summary: You cant praise this book enough
Review: When i first walked into the local bookstore to buy ender's game, i thought i was going to get another 300 or so page run of the mill sci-fi novel. BOY WAS I WRONG! I started the book at around noon that day, during programmming class, much to the dismay of my camp councelor, who was trying to teach me something. After the first 10 pages, i wasnt even listening, i was soooooo caught up in the book. that novel has a magnetic power to it, its so good you cant put it down until you finish it, and even then, you wish you could keep reading, because you liked it so much. If your sitting in your chair reading this, thinking, he's just patronizing the book, email me at soren9580@pacbell.net, because if a book like this goes unread by a person, the person misses a chance for an amazing experience to be gained.
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