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Summary: For Ender Wiggin The Future Is Now
Review: Ender's Game is about a boy named Ender Wiggin, a nine-year-old genius, who is humanity's last chance for survival. The feared aliens, the buggers, haven't attacked since the second invasion, which was 70 long years ago. Ender must go to Battleschool to train for the next invasion. Ender will become the perfect commander, or at least is supposed to be the perfect commander. When Ender gets to Battleschool he is isolated to keep him alert. Ender becomes part of an army faster than any other person in the history of Battleschool. The way the author creates the game and describes how they play is crucial to making this book so good.
Of course, that makes other kids jealous. Ender makes an enemy instantly. Bonzo, his first commander, doesn't like how Ender is small and such a big deal to the teachers. Bonzo trades Ender as fast as he can. But Bonzo hates Ender and will be back. I like the interaction between Ender and his jealous commander Bonzo.
Ender gets his own army and it becomes the best army ever. They never lost even when there were two armies against them. I like the way Ender always makes up a strategy that works. I would never have thought of those plans. Ender will be the best commander in history if he keeps up what he is doing. But will the pressure get to Ender? Will he fail because he is lonely? You have to read the book to find out what happens, and you should because it's such a good book.
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Summary: What a great book!
Review: I usually have trouble finding a good book to read, but as I read the first page of Ender's Game, I was already hooked. I think it was the way Orson Scott Card wrote the book because it got me so interested and so I continued to read it. The plot is awesome its great to see the authors views of the future. For example your only allowed to have two children and the government chooses if you may have a third.Its very easy to read and the buggers (aliens) attacking the planet is just fasinating to read about. But it does go further, Ender's life at home and he being a third (third child of the family) is really emotional. Ender and his journey at battle school are absolutly fasinating, the earth life for Peter and Valentine was pretty was interesting but on a different level. Overall I loved the book and it's great for people who have problems finding great books to read. I'm exited to read the next book of the series (Ender's Shadow) because Orson Scott Card is a brilliant author.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Card did an excellent job on this book. The reader can really identify and apithize with Ender. This book is extremely well written and keeps you wanting more. After reading this book you will be drawn to go out and pick up Speaker of the Dead, the second book in the series. Highly recommended
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Summary: Not as good as expected.
Review: Having been on a nostalgic classic Sci Fi trip lately I decided to pick up as many classics as possible and Ender's Game fit the bill. I have heard a lot about this novel and it's sequels as a definitive Sci Fi collection so I expected solid things from Card's work. Alas I was disappointed. Perhaps it is because I am relatively young and in this modern age classic Sci Fi is becoming outdated by modern technology but I also found Cards writing to be a tad borish. I read the entire book on a flight to Las Vegas so it is not a long read but the plotline really dragged. The characters didn't seem to define themselves in any great manner and the biggest issue I had was that the whole point of everything was never truly presented. At times I got a little lost at what was going on and had to track backwards to pick it all up again. Once able to keep on track I found the plot to be predictable and redundant. Ender was kind of an annoying character who just beat obstacle after obstacle with little explanation of how he did so. By the end of the novel my mind was so numb from the monotonous plotline I pretty much missed the whole point of the book. I wanted to like this book but it was just too dated and too simple to really have met my expectations. It is truly an example of how Sci Fi is getting dated in todays society and if you want some real good classic sci fi stick to Herbert's Dune series or some of the newer stuff coming out.
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Summary: Ender's Game is sweeeeet!
Review: Anyone who wishes to improve their life and the lives of their children should not only read Ender's Game, they should live it!
Being a small boy, almost everybody can relate to Ender's struggles and successes in the novel. When he triumphs over bully after bully, so do you. When he dominates the battleroom, you do too. And when he finally ... but, then, I wouldn't want to give away the end. You'll just have to read this wonderful work for yourself!
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: I could just go on and on like other book reviewers about how Ender's Game is a "literary masterpiece," and a "mindful work of art," but I'm not sure that's true. Although it does become fairly thought provoking near the end of the book, the beginning comes off as childish.Ender, the main character bravely abandoning his family to go to space to defeat aliens... It seems a little too cliche to me. But later on, as the leaders of Ender's Battle School begin to pressure him with the rigors of command and strange psychological games, Orson Scott Card truly develops and shows what happens when children are forced to grow up too fast. And what happens when a child stops playing the game. With the story becoming more complex, it becomes very easy to be drawn in and become attached to the few friends Ender made during his enforced isolation, and to wonder at the genius of children as young as seven. All in all, even if the book seems childish at first, it really does evolve into a "Literary Masterpiece," at least in my opinion, and if you're looking for a good book to read, it's definitely worth your time.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I'm impressed with the insight into the character of Ender. It is one of the rare books that caught me by suprise at the end, while making it seem a natural development. Concise writing and to the point. Such a wonderful combination of Science fiction ideas and social understanding.
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Summary: An enduring story about compassion and humanity--
Review: This is one of the finest novels you'll ever read. This is a book I have bought several times, yet that I still don't own, because I inevitably give my copies away to those who I feel should read this amazing story. First, it's a simple story, with deftly drawn characters and an incredible plot. It's a book to be read in one sitting, if you are inclined to such an activity. Ender, the precocious hero of the tale, is 3 years old at the book's beginning, but by the end of the book, he has saved the entire human race. His story is compelling and vastly entertaining. But ultimately, this book and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead, are about more than just a good story--- they are about tolerance, understanding, compassion, humanity. They offer an easy way into a large-scale understanding of what our place is in the universe. This won't clobber you over the head as you read the books, but perhaps after reading them you will be a little more inclined to try to understand another culture before denouncing it-- much as Ender must learn to deal with the fact that he was unwittingly responsible for the destruction of an entire race, without even understanding their identity or motives. I first read this book and its companion (I find the following books-- Xenocide, Children of the Mind, et al-- interesting, but Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead stand alone to me) when I was about 15 I think, and they have had a lasting impact on me. Since then, these books are the most recommended and gifted titles I have owned-- given with the intention of fostering an interest in science fiction, as well as with the idea that they can also demonstrate some of the more honorable and desirable traits humans can display. If everyone who reads this book can identify and learn even a little bit with Ender, I think Card will have done a great service to that readership. Highly recommended, and suitable for young adults and adults alike.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Enders game is one of the most spectacular books that I ever had the pleasure of reading. The author, Orson Scott Card, has just out done him self on this book. This science Fiction book is just full of drama, and adventure has you follow him through training and into combat.
The setting of the story directly affects the motivations of the main character. For instance, Ender is the main character and he chooses to go through training to fight buggers because he is in outer space. Ender has the determination to do his best to fight off the buggers. When he has to, he will do his best to save what means the most to him. For example, his sister Valentine encourages him to save the world. Another example is that when Ender is in a very peaceful place he has the motivation to do very little or nothing at all. Ender won't do anything at all until an out side force comes in and acts upon him to do something. Ender doesn't want anything to do with fighting or killing buggers unless he has to defend someone. Enders surroundings, outer space, and the influence of the people whom he cares for gives him the motivation to make choices, to create an interesting story.
Ender's game was, in my opinion, was better than all the best science fiction books, like stare track and star wars. If I could choose any science fiction books in the world I would choose Enders game for the drama, adventure, setting, and of course characters. Harry potter comes in a close second place. This book for all of these reasons is one of the greatest and best books I have ever read. I believe that the adventures and characters have captured my interest and Ender's Game will continue to be on my all time list of favorite books to read.
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Summary: Enders game
Review: I thought that this book was very well writen. i beleve that the way orson scott card wrote thsi book with great detal. He has a very creative mind. this is how the story starts, Ender is a child that has been out casted by his sosity. becase he is a third and child that is born out side the population limates. Ender has to deal with alot of different problems with people that pick on him. Yet the gov. alowed his family to have this child becase the 2 kids before peter and val were amazingly smart. So they beleve that he will be also smart. they test Ender using a monitor. this monitor test his ability to defend, resist and cope with the problems. many of the problms that ender had to deal with were consered. after ender leaves his family he goe to battle school a school for kids that a exeptionaly smart. these kids are to be trained to use military manuvers, these kids also play a game this game i in a room with no gravity and they fight each other. then after ender leaves the lanchie army he gets moved to a different army. here he meets bonzo. bonzo i the type of guy that dose not like people been better than him. after that ender finishes his time up at battle school and the officers dicide to move him to the command school. so ender gets on a ship and gose to command school. And well he rest of the stoy you will have to find out for your self so read this book
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