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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's game is a fast paced, intense read that makes you think. Is it right to make kids lose their inocence? Do we have the right to eliminate an entire form of life? Are there really kids out there that are that smart? Does the Human Race have that kind of potential? It also keeps things simple and easy to read so the reader does not get lost amongst all the happenings. It is a great book and I strongly advise reading it.
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Summary: EnDeR's GaMe
Review: Enders game is a great book that is a definite page turner. The book starts out when Ender is chosen to go to Battle School. When he is taken to school he is isolated, tormented and worked tell he couldnt go any further. Soon ender becomes a leader of his own army. He wins all of his battles and soon graduates to command school. This is where he leaves his friends and has to learn how to command the real worlds army. This is when he starts to find how bad they are controlling his mind. The end is very clever and transfixing. This book was one of the best books I have ever read!!!!!!!!!!! A MUST READ.
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Summary: Join the Game...
Review: Welcome to the world of Ender, an oppressed genius of a boy who find himself recruited for the space army at the age of six. The boy surpassed the greatest expectations of the system, and is promoted...to what? Pck up Ender's game, and read it cover to cover like i did, and you will be sure to find out, and have a philosophical, entertained time of it while you're at it. And don't let his genius brother and sister slip through your fingers, as they plot to take over the world through diplomacy, with methods never before used. not really a childrens book, and optimal for young adults with a taste for deep science fiction with a somewhat sophisticated touch.
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Summary: Witness the Making of a Leader
Review: This is an excellent work of science fiction that has as much to offer adults as it does teens. In fact, both audiences will get what they need from this story, as the multiple layers aren't mutually exclusive. It would surprise me if younger audiences can appreciate some of the social commentary and politics of this story, which make the tale as excellent as do the complex action sequences.And what action there is. Ender Wiggins, who is exhaustively trained and groomed- and whose very birth was commissioned- to eventually lead the world in battle against alien forces ("the buggers"), grows up in an anti-gravity combat arena outside Earth, where his every move is watched by the military. The better he performs, the greater the challenges are created to train him or break him in the process. Every force in Ender's life is calculated by his handlers to prepare him for battle, beginning with artificial isolation from his family and from other children, to allowing the child's nemeses to confront and bully him, to maintaining computer games for Ender to play, which incorporate real elements from his past into the landscape. This book reads like a video game, through graphic representation of the battle scenes and thorough details of the strategies involved. Anyone who has ever appreciated military-style games like Stratego, or even tooled around with Army men, will enjoy the formations Ender employs in battle (and Card's vivid descriptions thereof). There is a large psychological component to Ender's training, and a sociological angle to the book in general, too. In fact, a well-developed parallel storyline to Ender's training involves his equally-brilliant brother Peter and sister Valentine, and their efforts to marshal populations back on Earth to prepare for war with one another, in case the threat of aliens turns out to be a hoax. Ender is a reluctant leader despite his very great gifts, and the entire training process begs the question: what if a society learned of a brilliant leader in its midst who was but a child; how hard should its leaders push him, versus letting him mature on his own? For that matter, to what lengths should a nation go to discover the next Napoleon, Washington, or Churchill, before he has the opportunity to develop a non-military interest? As for Ender, his fate hangs in the balance until the story's end, in a twist that remarkably allows him to skirt the issue of having to commit to one of his dueling natures: extreme empathy for others or utter ruthlessness in battle.
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Summary: move along, nothing to see here . . .
Review: the plot essentially involves super-genius children receiving military training in preparation for an invasion of alien insect creatures. much of the novel consists of detailed tactical descriptions of the equivalent of paint-ball played in zero gravity. the children then graduate to "command school" and rain on star-fighter simulators. The similarities between ender's game and the dreadful movie "Starship Troopers" only make matters worse. I read sci-fi either for (i) intelligent imaginings about future technology, or (ii) xeno-anthropology, for lack of a better term.
Jack Vance and Iain Banks come to mind. This book lacks any of these qualities... However, the book has received good reviews from reputable sources, so maybe it just was not my cup of tea.
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Summary: One of my favorite books
Review: A friend of mine lent me this book in high school and I read it twice in the week I had it. Since then I bought it for myself and have read it appoximately 30 times(somewhere around three times a year!).
I have never read a book that captured me like this one has. Every time I read it it's like coming back to an old friend. Not only does the reader have a chance to come to love Ender, but also Bean and Petra and to a lesser degree Crazy Tom and Hot Soup and all the others that eventually play a big role in the end.
I have to admit that I haven't read it yet this year(I must be really behind)but it's one of the only books that I can think about without picking it up and still be able to remember almost everything that happens.
I also should say that before this book and after reading the rest of the series(including the Shadow books)I have never picked up a science fiction novel. I never would have read this one if my friend hadn't insisted. Usually you can find me with a Stephen King or Agatha Christie book, but I would've really been missing out on a great book had I not given in to my friend's persistance.
I recommend this book to anyone, but mostly younger teens who can relate to the growing pains experienced by Ender and his struggle to get through adolescence. It's a great book about friendship and family as well as a good lesson in morality.
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Summary: Tom's Ender's Game Book Review
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 the author has a way of writing that you just want to hear more about the story. I like the futuristic plot because It's cool to learn the author's ideas about what life would be like in the future. One example I like is that your only allowed to have two children and the government chooses if you have a third. I give the book four stars because It's so easy to read and the plot about 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. The only reason I don't give the book five stars is because I thought it was a drag when we had to go back to earth and learn about Peter and Valentine (Ender's siblings) and what their up to. I wanted to keep learning about Ender and his journey at battle school, the earth life for Peter and Valentine was pretty boring, especially the fact of dedicating a whole chapter to them. But overall I loved the book and it's great for people who have book selection problems. I can say I'm really exited to read the next book of the series (Ender's Shadow) because Orson Scott Card is such a brilliant author.
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Summary: AN ENJOYABLE READ THAT TEACHES YOU ABOUT HUMANITY.
Review: I enjoyed this book because it was always surprising me.It showed me that even the most unlikley of people can do what they never dreamed of even if you are picked on as so many of us are.It also taught me that if you get in to deep with something you loose your self in the end.Dont miss out on this sci-fi tear jerker!
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Summary: Light-ish sci fi with a moving ending
Review: I think the best part of this book was the surprise ending, where a world of feeling that wasn't always as visible earlier on blossoms out and convinces you to read the rest of the series. I had mixed feelings about the book until I got near the end. It's a little different from most sci fi I've read in that it is not really a novel of ideas or exploration; it has a lighter feel. There's nothing wrong with that, and its focus on character and interaction are commendable, as are its readability and fluency. The book's main problems are structural. Where I had a bit of a problem with it was in the amount of time and space spent on the game; there were so many pages devoted to descriptions of the game that at times it dragged. This also contributed to the book's lightweight feeling and it often made the book seem more like the first part of a longer book, which is not the same as the first book in a series. The amount of time spent on the game, which was really introductory to the main plot events, made the book feel unbalanced. This problem is compounded by the fact that the climax was very brief; and it was concealed by a plot device so that you didn't actually know it was the climax until after it was over! It carries very little weight. Finally, a whole new vista on everything that came before is opened up in the last few moving pages, altering your view of the whole thing and providing a degree of thoughtfulness, significance, and emotional weight that were largely missing until that point. It was only in those last few pages that I knew for sure I would read the rest of the series.
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Summary: Life aint the game that it seems to be. No kiddy book!
Review: Ender Wiggin is the last chance for the planet Earth and the Human Race. The Buggers, an evil alien race bent on conquest, is intent on destyoing humanity. They have superior technology and and outmatch humanity in every way. But the resourceful leaders of earth have come up with a brillant and devious plan based on the manipulation of human psychology. Their plan is to breed a genius capable of commanding a force to defeat the buggers and destroy their home planet. Through genetics and behaviorial psychology they train Ender Wiggin to become the greatest general in human history. Through nature and nuture they train Ender to rely only on himself and to be cold and ruthless. To think outside the box and not be restrained by convetional thinking on any sort or by morality. This book chronicals his training to become that supreme commander. He has two older siblings, a brother and a sister. Both are brillant but pale in comparison to him. They were both failed experiments in creating the perfect military commander. The boy Peter, Ender's brother, was a sociopath with no feelings. He was too self absorbed to care about winning a war and lacked the disipline necessary to be a leader. Ender's sister was to nice to make the hard choices. Ender is the perfect balance between his extreeme siblings. He is cold when necessary and warm when necessary. He is basically a good person but is systmatically twisted into a strategic mental killing machine. The ending has a great twist that some label anticlimatic but that is because they lack intellegence. This book is a psychological thriller that puts the weight of the world, literally, on a 12 year old boy.
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