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Summary: Wonderful Plot and Amazing Characters!
Review: I am only 11; I read this book the first time when I was nine or 10, and then read it again just a few weeks ago. I love the character Ender, and while Speaker for the Dead was good, Ender's Game will always be one of my most favorite books. I love the battle school, and the games; it makes me realize that yes, things _can_ be done better way! I think the character Ender is and extrordianary person for his age. I have recommended this book to every I know!
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Summary: I would put 6 or 7 stars if i could
Review: I've now read this book 11 times, and it only gets better each time.The first time i read this book i was about 12 years old. I was always little and picked on,and was suffering from depression. Lucky for me my sister bought me the book and told me to read it. I did (I finished it about 4:30 that morning). It changed the way i thought. I helped me get over my problems. It changed the way i thought. I recomend this book, to every one. i did not read much before i read this book, now i don't stop. this is a must read for non-sci-fi and science fiction readers alike.
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Summary: Best book ever
Review: This is my all-time favorite sci-fi novel. Card captures humanity extraordinarily well. A must buy!!
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Summary: Ender's Game was a great book!
Review: Ender's Game is a powerful book. The author must have put a lot of thought into it. Orson Scott Card cleverly discribes all the struggles and hardships that Ender went through in battle school. I would recommend this book to everyone of all ages.
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Summary: This book changed my life
Review: I cant explain it any better than that, at the time in my life when I first read this I was near suicidal, it was Ender's Game and Star Wars that saved me, I really believe that. There are some very powerful universal truthsi n this book that I dont believe anyone should go without. Even if you dont like sci-fi, this is a must-read!
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Summary: Very well written
Review: I thought that this book was good. It was sad that Ender didn't get to experience a very fun childhood. He was picked on by his fellow battle school peers. At home Peter, his brother also abused him. The only person in his life that really loved him was his sister,Valentine. Valentine was like a mother to Ender. The trama in Ender's life kept me reading, more and more. It was a well written book and I can't wait to read, " Speaker for The Dead."
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Summary: A book that takes you farther than you'd ever expect
Review: I never thought that picking up a science fiction book (this was my first) would open my life to a classical education! I read the Trilogy. Then I went on to read the real Demosthenese, then the Campaigns of Alexandar by Arrian, then Heroditus... Card has given his characters lives that fit in with our own ancient mythology. A fine sequal to the ancients!
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Summary: A child is the hero of the day!
Review: I was looking for a Sci-Fi book in a store once, and a stranger suggested this book to me. I hafta thank them because this book has been an awesome experience! This is a story of love and hate and companionship, it is very exciting and there is always something happening! I recomend this book to anyone who wants something good to read.
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Summary: It makes me want to cry every time I read it.
Review: I first read "Ender's Game" when I was about 7 years old, and since then (I'm 16 now) I've probably read it several dozen times. I recently read it again, and my suspicion was confirmed: it gets better every time. I don't know what it is, but I have never read a book that can compare to it. Card's "The Worthing Saga" is very good, but not even close. The sequels to "Ender's Game" are, in my opinion, atrocious. They damaged the story for me, but it is still the best I have ever read, including "classics". One thing that amuses me, by the way, is how the (few) people who put "Ender's Game" down and say how terrible it is and give it one star all spell something wrong, and not hard words either, but easy words.
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Summary: The Ender Quartet, An Allegory of the Human Condition
Review: I have read almost all of the entire Ender Quartet, and have read the novel, "Armour", by John Steakley (which was referred to by an avid reader in the military of the first novel of the series whose feedback was included in the introduction.) I have noticed that the first novel was very different in focus than the subsequent 3 novels of the series. It is interesting to note that Mr. Card has chosen to pursue a storyline in which he stresses Andrew "Ender" Wiggin's, the main protagonist, life during peacetime as opposed to his short stint in the military during his childhood. I think that it puts a very positive message forward about how easy it is to destroy but how difficult it is to create, to preserve, to protect. However, this being said, I would be curious to see if anyone (especially Mr. Card himself) would dare to attempt a more in depth and perhaps even a graphical analysis of the three-dimensional tactics that Ender would have theoretically used in combating the "buggers" [the Varelse-class (aliens to foreign to be able to live in peaceful co-existence with) aliens later fouond to be Raman-class (i.e. human but from a different species and capable of deriving some mutual understanding to work out a way for living in mutual harmony and peace)]. I particularly liked the conclusion of Peter Wiggin (ender's brain-child fashioned after the likeness of his hated and deceased brother who became Hegemon or Supreme ruler of Earth). He mentions that we, human beings, are varelse. We commit to destroying anything and anyone unknown to us without gathering and corroborating more information about the strangers in our midst. This is a life lesson that I believe the students in Columbine High, Colorado, learned a little too late. Although the Black Trenchcoat Gang was undoubtedly to blame in the shooting deaths and injuries of innocent students and faculty, they were really lashing back at being ostracized and tormented by the athletes in the school. In other words, they were treated like varelse; like latter-day Marcaos. They expressed their pent-up anger violently after emotionally-isolating themselves from their fellow student body. As important, insightful and entertaining the novels are, one would be remiss if one didn't "get the message" that Orson Scott Card, author and, in-my-mind, social commentator, is trying to make in his books. Examples of the relevance of his writing can be seen on CNN broadcasts of Operation Desert Storm and in Operation Kosovo. We, as North Americans, have attained an emotional detachment with our sports, movies and, yes, even fictional books, that it is ironic that it takes a work of fiction to really bring back into focus the REAL WORLD issues that are really important and should be important to us. However, there is hope. We can all aspire to the same clarity of thought and conscience that premeates Mr. Card's works. Sincerely, AL
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