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Summary: The best science-fiction book for NON science-fiction fans
Review: Incredible! Everybody loves Ender, the boy genius, plucked from his home, his family, and his planet and shuttled off to Battle School to fight the Buggers; an alien species, intent on colonizing Earth and destroying the human race. A non-stop action adventure and perfect for everyone young and old. The best science-fiction book for anyone who claims not to like the genre.
The first time I read this book I did so on a 45 hour road-trip from my home in New Jersey to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Myself and three buddies from college all read it during our two-week adventure. It was recommended by the brother of one of the guys who was a West Point cadet. It turns out Ender's Game was on the Required Reading List for his freshman class. While in Jackson, I bought book 2, Speaker for the Dead, and read it on the trip home (naturally putting it down when it was my turn to drive).
Since then, I have given this book to my mother, two of my sisters and their two sons. All loved it. In fact, my 12 year old nephew loves the Ender saga so much he gave me Children of the Mind for Christmas
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Summary: This is the best book I've ever read!
Review: This has to be the best book ever written! Now I've read many
books and the only one that comes close is The Talisman, by Stephen King. When you read this book, you feel all the emotions of Ender and pull for him all the time. You share
in his triumphs and wallow in his deafeats. This is the must
read book for anyone and everyine with a pulse!
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Summary: This book is one of the reasons I read science fiction.
Review: I read a lot of books: science fiction, classical literature, contemporary fiction, fantasy, poetry, treatises on science and mathematics, Civil War histories, etcetera, etcetera. The reason that I do this is because I am in love with books. I am not a professional critic, nor am I an English teacher. I just like to read. And once in a while, I will get hold of a book that makes me remember why I fell in love with reading in the first place, and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is one of those books. In all of the stories that I truly love, there is always at least one passage that touches something in me on a deep emotional level. And the passage from Ender's Game that puts this book over the top (with me anyway), is the scene that greeted Ender after he had turned the Little Doctor onto the aliens' home planet and annhilated it. Up until this point in the story, of course, Ender had thought that he was only playing a game--engaging in training exercises. But when he stepped out of his battle-simulator, thinking that he had miserably failed this latest test, only to be greeted by a room full of generals and admirals and ambassadors--some of them weeping openly, some of them prostrate on the floor in prayer, some of them just staring into space in disbelief--THAT moment of realization struck me with such power that I will not even attempt to describe it. It is THAT experience that has always drawn me to the printed word. And even now whenever I re-read this book, knowing what is coming, I still get that chill and shock of understanding. It goes right through me, into my heart. I cannot explain it, but that is why I love this book, and why I will continue to read and re-read
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Summary: This is a great book, which hooked me on Card.
Review: This was the first book I read of Orson Scott Card's. I first read it in the sixth grade(I'm 14), and I loved it. I forgot about it until last year when I saw the book again. I found all the sequels to it including the recent "Children of the Mind". I even read the "Earthfall" Series and his "Alvin Maker" series. You have got to read this book. The psychology/action theme makes this a great page turner
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Summary: Why can't you negatories judge a story on its own merits?
Review: It's actually a 9.99999, but hey, who's counting? it lack's that .00001 of a point only in the hopes and knowledge that there will always be another excellent story down the road that can stand next to this one. People who search for THE sci-fi book crack me up. Even those who ridicule the others and give EG a 1 or 6, because they're doing the same thing--looking at EG in RELATION to all the others. Just read it and STOP COMPARING--read it and judge it on its own merits
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Summary: READ IT
Review: If you do not read this book, I will (threaten here to) hit you on the head (with something soft). Read this book; it and its mates are the reason the entire science-fiction genre is worth reading
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Summary: My most favorite book ever
Review: This is the most exciting story I have read. I have owned a half dozen copies, and keep mistakenly "loaning" them out to
friends, never seeing this book again. Read it the first time
for the excitement of a story that you cannot put down. After
read it 5 more times like I have and learn more about human
nature and the dark subtle forces that drive us humans. Each
time I pick this book up to read, more I learn about who we are and how easy we are to manipulate.
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Summary: A book to read many times
Review: I have read Ender's Game so many times I can't remember the first time. My copy is so worn, and the cover creased. It's a wonderful story.
Ender is a wonderful character. He has so many facets that you forget he's only a very young child. It is invigorating to see someone so young battling against those a few years older than him, and those fifty years older than him, and winning at both.
This story is a must read for anyone from age 12 to 112. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Graceful and thoughtful sci-fi
Review: I've read Ender's Game a number of times and it never ceases to impress me. I'm not really even a sci-fi lover, but the writing, in its style, is impressive and Card creates characters rather than charicatures or parodies. This book poses genuine questions without falling into the trap that some sci-fi does of making everything really "futury" and giving alternate names to every aspect of human life in the future. It is a fine book
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Summary: This book manipulates and dehumanizes; it is an empty book.
Review: Before considering reading this, I think that one should
look to Norman Spinrad's review of it as it appeared
in Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Failing that,
at least realize that the entire book is a deliberate button-pushing saga, following the patterns of human
mythology that are older then history, in a completely
manipulative way. Read Frank Herbert and you'll see that he
wants to show the emptiness of the Messiah complex; Card
celebrates it. Herbert wants to explore what humanity is
about; Card wants to explore how much money it has.
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