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Summary: BLEAH!!
Review: In the beginning of this book Ender acted like a weenie, letting all those other kids bully him, even if he was only six years old. Ender Wiggin is a weenie. What more can I say?
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Summary: A thrilling story full of suspense and intruiging characters
Review: In Ender's Game, 6 year old Ender Wiggin is taken to an outer space battle school to prepare to fight an alien race, the Buggers. Away from his family and beloved sister, he creates a world of his own. This is an amazing book, that has well thought out characters and plots. I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: book for the ages
Review: this book should be required reading in high school. has the tendency to turn one's thoughts to the future, and towards more books. this book hooked me into reading at age seven, and i've never stopped since. give mr. card the credit due and stop fishing for attention.
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Summary: Best Sci Fi of all times!!
Review: This book was excelently written. I had never even liked reading, then my friend made me read this one. It usually took me a year or two to finish a 300 page book, but I read this in 3 days. The plot was exciting and the ending was very different than I expected it would be. It was action packed in my minds eyes. Read this book next, you won't regret it.
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Summary: Intriguing
Review: This books stands on my shelf along with books such as Crime And Punishment, The Hobbit, and Dune. It won't by any means, live as long as War and Peace, but then again, who asked for it to? There were certainly some... questionable periods in the book, but then again, there were some very believable things in it. Especially for a child (myself many years ago) involved in government programs. My feelings were mixed immeditiatly after having read the story, but after allowing it to sit in the back of my mind for a while I began to understand some of the more subtle points. I only hope that others can do the same for this trully masterful peice of writing of our own time.
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Summary: THE BOOK
Review: First off I will admit that this is not the best book ever written, as some have claimed, but it is one that would be a shame for anyone not to read. I call it The Book because Ender's Game was my Bible. I haven't read it in probably three years, but to say it affected me in such a way that I still vividly remember it would be a gross understatement. Ender's Game was the first book I ever read, and it was this book that led me into the exciting world of fiction. This is the main reason I gave this book a ten, for this book more than anything else is responsible for me being the person I am today. Granted this statment may seem a little extreme, but to me Ender's Game was an entry into the world of the imagination, and I hate to think of anyone living a life without this. Maybe you can find something else to provide this for you, but if you are still young, whether in truth or in mind, and have yet to discover the power that a story contains, than there is no better place to begin than this book. Whatever else Orson Scott Card is, he is a supremely gifted storyteller, and it is this which separates him from most other writers both past and present. To say Ender acts like an adult is just plain wrong. Ender is a child, a gifted child capable of both wonderful and horrible acts, but a child nonetheless. It is the adults in the story that force Ender into his violent acts, for he would rather float in the serene lake on his own raft harming no one. The adults constantly use his superior intellect to their own ends, and because he is is a child with the naivity this implies, he is unaware of their guiding hands, or at least only vaguely aware. Ender's game is a study on violence. Is any violence legitimate? Why do we destroy our most gifted minds? How does violence affect the one performing it? All of these questions are voiced by Card, if not answered, and what one finally gets out of Ender's Game is a way to love your enemy to respect and cherish the other, that which is different from yourself. Card does this in a prose which is clear and at the same time suggestive, and I think no "literary" work can make this claim.
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Summary: The Deprived
Review: Hmmm, this will in all probability be removed within a week. Oh well. I'm just here to say that anyone rating this 3 or below is most likely just doing it to get attention because they are psychologically unstable. Honestly, with all the 9s and 10s, when I read the reviews I read EVERY LAST ONE that was below 7 and only the higher ones if they were at least a page long. So, I figure its just an attention-grabbing devise for people who crave notice from anybody in any way they can.
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Summary: One of the best books I ever read.
Review: One of Card's best works. Should be made into a movie.
I didn't care for the sequel's though.
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Summary: Excellant Adult Entertainment
Review: After having read most of the non-flattering critiques posted prior to this one, and also having been an Orson Scott Card fan for the last seven years, I would like to summarize what I have heard. A lot of the complaints were from Junior High School readers who did not like the idea of a young hero, and have trouble imagining a childhood differant from what they have had. Card has always had a talent for hitting on a lot of the truths of adolescence, and I think most of these critiques truly boil down to jealousy. This book is not a young adult's novel. There also were a couple comments about the "rushed" and "extended" plot at the end of the book. These complaints can only be made by people who have not also read "Speaker for the Dead" which was actually the book Card wanted to write, and re-wrote the short story "Ender's Game" to give it the proper lead in. The only other complaints were about the use of a USENET forum for political discussion. Within the novels context, they should remember that these were restricted adult forums in which they were discussing, not the Usenet as we typically use it. I would say a close approximation would be one of the moderated newsgroups on specific subjects, such as the various OS newsgroups and Anti-Virus newsgroups. If you truly believe Usenet has no real purpose as is not used by serious professionals, you may want to look at which newsgroups you are reading. I found this book to be excellant in all ways, and to have several hidden psychological insights. Ender's Game followed by Speaker for the Dead is just shy of pure brilliance.In the words of Orson Scott Card in one of his short stories (this quote is out of context), These two books put together could only be named, "Damn Fine Novel" or "F---ing Good Read".
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Summary: Its not for everyone
Review: I understand how people can dislike any book or anything in any type of media (for instance I really don't like Titanic that much) but you must look at this book and put it in its own context. When people talk about "Dune" they don't mention the fact that it does not involve the use of computers. For instance, the comment of usenet. First of all, it sounds more like chat forums combined with bulletin boards. Secondly, when Card wrote this book when the internet as we know it (if not computers themselves . . . though that is a little naive) was just in its infancy. Card probably knew little about online stuff at all (I don't even think that aol even existed . . not that that is neccesarily bad). On the other hand, when you think about it, the premise really is pretty rediculous . . . a six year old saving the world. (Just like some movie about some robots who meet up with a kid and a monk who then go with a space pirate and his gigantic pet dog to save the galaxy from a man dressed like an ATM with a head) Sometimes there are people who just don't like what many other people do and we have to accept that whether that is a sci-fi novel or the aforementioned Star Wars movie. We shouldn't berate them because we all had those "great books" in high school we detested. (Even those who dislike Ender's Game can agree with that.)
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