Ender's Game (Fantastic Audio)

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Summary: Crushing and gripping
Review: I have only read this book once because I don't think I can stand to read it again. It is a brilliant book about a brilliant child who understands *how* to perform a frightening and monumental task, but does not understand *why* he should or should not participate. Some previous reviewers have said Ender is too grown up; I think they may not have been paying attention to the distinction between having an astounding intellect and having the wisdom that we all hope to attain as adults. Ender has the intellect to spare, but as another reviewer points out, he does not have the historical or social context to make judgments with all his knowledge. He is used by adults who can't do but can teach, and in the long run becomes a hero against his will. He bears the weight of a responsibility that shouldn't be on the shoulders of an elected world leader who chose to be there, and literally has no peers with whom to be a child. Every peer he had, he defeated, and in the end, he has nothing to call his own. I found this book to be one of the most crushing and gripping books I have ever read. I keep thinking I will read it again, but I don't know if I can--it was that hard to bear the ending.

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Summary: Right up there on my top 20 list.
Review: I've read just about every science fiction and "fantasy" book I've been able to lay my hands on and this is one of my favourites (not quite up there with Neuromancer and Tigana, but pretty close). It is one of those books you can read again and enjoy. The caracters have depth and are believable, no all-good or all-evil caracters, even "sickly sweet little Valentine", as one reviewer has it, has her share of conflict and displays a darker side. This is not a "one little kid saves the universe" type of book in the good old pulp tradition. It's about being different, the pressure adults put on children to perform, making difficult decisions, and about empathy. And just in case that sounds boring, there's plenty of action for the lover of fast moving adventures.

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Summary: My Favorite Book of All time
Review: I am a avid reader of all types of books and never have I gotten to know a character like I know Ender . The book is extremely well written and it's characters are well rounded. I have read it over and over and it just gets better everytime. It is a must buy.

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Summary: THIS IS A SCI-FI MUST NOT!!!!!!
Review: This book is definately not as good as all the reveiws rated it. It's definately a book for obsessed sci-fi fans who will read anything that can be remotely classified as sci-fi. It is an insult to the great sci-fi books like the STAR WARS series. The character of Ender is definately unrealistic. Who has ever heard of adults breeding military "geniuses". It is impossible to be as smart as the author portrayed Ender as being.

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Summary: This was a pretty good book!
Review: I enjoyed this book! It's not my favorite, but pretty darn close! Now don't get me wrong. I know what some of you readers are probably thinking. This seems like the book only some Star Trek- fanatic would like, but it is a good book! Those sci- fi people probably do fall head-over-heels-in-love-with,but this is a book for a sci- fi lover or hater. It is a book about the elements of battle and a young boy who nobody understands. I liked it!

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Summary: GOOD BOOK
Review: I liked this book. I especially liked the fact that all of the children in Ender's Game were smarter than the adults. Not that all children aren't smarter than adults, but this book showed it. Take Peter for instance, now there is a kid who knows his stuff. Peter had taken over the world by the time he was sixteen. I wish that all adults would come to their senses and let children run the world

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Summary: A great book :-D
Review: Hello. I am a seventh grader a Desert Ridge Middle School. My literature teacher made us read Ender's Game. At first I didn't like the book, but when I really started to read it, I began to like the book. I think that the book was very realstic, because of the way Ender and some of the other kids act. I have lived on an army and I heard the G.I.s cusing all the time. I think that my dad should read this book, because he is in the Air Force and that may be what the Air Force will be like in the future. The only thing I didn't like about your book was all that violence and the way everyone used Ender. I know that in war there is lot of violence and hatred. That is another reason the book was very realstic. The book was very interesting, but I hope we will never be at war with the buggers.

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Summary: Don't read it unless you have to.
Review: Ender's Game is a good novel for the few people who actually like gruesome battle stories. This is just another author's view of what the future will be like. Ender's Game has a good plot line that leaves you in suspense. I found that the profanity was unnecessary, and not useful to the book. I am only a seventh grader at Desert Ridge Middle School, and I have much reading ahead of me.

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Summary: Its greattttt!
Review: I first read the book in 1987. It was lent to me by a friend with his recommendations. It was so good that I remembered it till this day. While browsing at Amazon.com, I ran a search for it and end up buying it. I got it 3 months after ordering it! Well it was well worth the wait. I do notice that it was changed a bit especially at the end (mine was the author's definitive edition), but it made the book very much better. I didn't like the ending in the earlier edition. But Card still missed the mistake at page 177, it was "Rose the Nose's mistake" not "Bonzo's mistake" (please refer to page 105). I had just bought the entire Ender's series just now at Amazon.com. I hope I didn't make a mistake ;-) by doing that!!!

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Summary: Just a little overrated
Review: After reading several of the reviews posted here, I had high hopes for Ender's Game. Unfortunately, the story of a child genius who trains in battle games throughout an entire book (that's really all he does), which ends with an anti-climatic plot twist, is far from the classic sci-fi all these other readers seem to think it is. If you want really good sci-fi, try 'The Stars My Destination' by Alfred Bester, any of the 'Hyperion' saga books by Dan Simmons, or 'The Forever War' by Joe Haldeman. Those are true classics.