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Summary: An imaginative and thrilling novel
Review: What's this? Nancy's reading a Sci fi book? Yes, Strangely enough it's true. Sci fi has never been my favorite type of book but I actually really enjoyed this one. It tells the story of Andrew "Ender" Wiggum. Ender lives in a futuristic world where humanity has already been ravaged twice by an alien race called the Buggers. To prepare for the next attack they start training commanders from a very early age. So when Ender reaches the age that most of us were still eating paste and finger-painting, he's sent away to Battle School. Ender hates Battle school. Because of his superior intellect he is forced to be separated from all of the other students. He is teased and made fun of. But once he gets used to the school he finds out that he not only enjoys the battle games that the students are forced to play, he's talented. So talented that he surpasses all of his peers easily. But once he gets comfortable everything is taken away from him. Suddenly things are not so fun anymore. And Ender discovers that his destiny is much more complicated than he thinks.People have been recommending this book to me ever since started getting into fantasy but I've always been iffy about it considering I'm not into Sci fi at all. But when about the 6th person recommended it to me, I knew I had to read it. I'm glad I did. Ender's story, although rarely realistic, is absolutely fascinating. The characters are complex and interesting. My personal favorite character is Ender's sister Valentine. I am very interested in reading more about Ender, Peter, Valentine, and the other characters from this book. I'll probably read the rest of the series. Maybe someone could give one to me for Christmas (hint hint). I recommend this book to pretty much everyone into fantasy or sci-fi.
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Summary: This is absolutely the best science fiction book I have ever
Review: read. But a word to the wise, if you are going to get this book, go ahead and order the rest in the series. Once you start, you'll want to read them all.
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Summary: I would give it a 6 if I could...
Review: I was very impressed with Ender's Game. There are not too many books that can hold my attention like this one has. We, being my English 1 Honors class, had to read this for an assignment. Seeing as how this was for class, I wasn't too sure about the quality of Ender's Game. In the first chapter, this book grabbed me and held on tight through the entire novel. In my opinion, this book had the right amount of action along with a splash of political and phychologic aspects. Though these elements got pretty confusing, the story fleshed it out enough for me and much of my class to understand. The main character, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, goes to a Battle School to train so that he may fight an insectoid race of aliens, known as buggers. Science fiction is not my niche in novels (alliteration is fun), but killing aliens is almost always cool in my eyes. Throughout the book, Ender faces a lot of conflict, both with other characters and also within himself. I do not want to give a lot of the plot away, because Ender's Game is something you have to read and experience for yourself.
Overall, this book was very enjoyable. It was hard to put this book down, and when I did, I wanted to read it even more. I hope you decide to try this book out, and if you do, I do not think you will be disappointed.
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Summary: My favorite book
Review: I love all Orson Scott Card but this one holds a special place in my heart. Ender's Game is one of those books that is extremely life changing. I read it as an adolescent and I think this is the best time to read this book to truly empathize with a displaced, estranged child. This science fiction book is perfect for both the sci fi lover and those who never touch the stuff. The book is really about Ender and his struggles in adjusting as a small boy with a big mind in a cruel place. It avoids some of the tiring technical information that you find in many other science fiction books. A great read!
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Summary: Intense, captivating, a powerful must read novel
Review: Ender Wiggin is just a little boy. He has a mom, a dad, a sister and a brother. He plays with blocks, he goes to school. He's six years old. He's also a super-genius.
Ender lives in a world still in shock from the impact of two alien invasions that a generation ago almost destroyed the human race. All the media, even the games little children play reflect these attacks and Ender was created solely to be a military genius who can protect planet Earth from a third invasion by the aliens. He's been sent to a military school in outer space where boys are trained to give up their childhood and become soldiers and commanders. As Ender was bred to be the detached, powerful commander of this army of boys, he's not allowed to make friends or even socialize with the other children. His teachers isolate him from the start, leaving him no outlet for human contact save as a leader in the war-games the students are trained through. So ender throws his life into
these games, winning them all and quickly becoming the greatest commander ever to train at the battle school. He earns the awe and respect of all the boys at the school and becomes an unapproachable, god-like hero to all of them. Ender doesn't want to be a hero.. He wants to be a little boy who can laugh and cry and make mistakes. But he knows this is impossible, and he's miserable because of it. He's willing to give up his life, though, for what he believes is the greater good of mankind. As time goes on, however, he begins to suspect that there was much more to the historic alien invasions that he's been told through the propaganda everyone's been brainwashed with since birth. Ender fears that perhaps the battle school is only a byproduct of a political power struggle back on Earth. He's being forced to waste his life supposedly protecting his home planet from invasion by aliens when the real enemies may indeed be the humans who already inhabit it. And the horrible truth is that there's nothing he can do about it.
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Summary: A good book on many levels
Review: Orson Scott Card, in my opinion, has outdone himself with this novel. In fact, I find it to be better than any of his other works. For those who enjoy his tight, focused writing style, imagination, and plotlines, this book is sure to exceed expectations.
The story concerns a young boy, Ender, who is a genius in a family of geniuses, a third child in a world where the limit is two per family. Humankind has been at war with an alien race for some time, and those children that possess the intelligence are culled from the rest and sent to an orbital school to train as future commanders. This training takes the form of classes in part, but also includes the Game, where the children are set against each other in armies, battling clothed in suits that react to the light guns they fire at one another.
Ender is very young and is viewed as useless by his superiors among the students, but he soon proves his tactical genius and eventually ends up as the commander of his own army composed entirely of the young and inexperienced. As their leader, he crafts this band of misfits into an army that emerges undefeated from every conflict.
As a backdrop to this, Ender's genius brother and sister, the former to hateful and the latter too kind to have entered the school, begin their own work back on Earth. They use careful release of ideas and manipulation of public thought to exact a slow but effective political takeover of the world's governments.
Meanwhile, Ender's exploits do not go unnoticed; when the teachers at the school realize his potential they begin to stack the odds against Ender, giving his army's adversaries multiple advantages. Amazingly, he and his army continue to defeat all comers, and he is eventually shipped out to begin his final training, and the revelation at its end that will alter the course of his life and his own view of himself forever.
This book is interesting in many ways and for several reasons. Firstly, it is a fascinating look inside the mind of a young boy. Granted, not a very ordinary one, but the way Ender and his thoughts are portrayed hearkens back to the way we all viewed the world at one time or another. Card has done an excellent job at capturing this on the page.
Another reason this book is different is that, while questions about such things as forgiveness, guilt, penance, conflict resolution, authority, leadership, and many more are raised, they are answered in a way that does not delve deeply into boring, soapbox philosophy or vague, bland plot-movers. Ender's internal struggles with the power his phenomenal intelligence has granted him, the actions he is forced to take, and the deeds he is unwittingly made to commit are fascinating to witness. He is also introduced to a darker, baser element within himself by the combat in the Game and the violence perpetrated against him by his fellows at the school. His inner grapplings with these demons of the self perhaps have something to say to everyone. On a side note, I would say that while this book may involve children, it is most assuredly not children's level reading, and probably not for most children either. There are several violent episodes involving bodily injury and even death when Ender is drawn into fights with his classmates, and these may be judged to be too much for younger readers.
This book is an excellent commentary on the rights and wrongs of conflict, and will likely cause the reader to examine his or her own views on the same. But over and beyond that, it is an enjoyable read and is backed up by several sequels and parallel novels, meaning that the adventure does not end with this book. However, I regard this to be the best of the series.
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Summary: Ender's Game Review
Review: On Ender's Game from a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best) I give it a 9. Orison Scott Card wrote a terrific book about another world in which bugs from another planet try to invade earth. To stop them, the bugs, Earth's defense has to recruit young boys. Train them in war tactics, teach them how to be leaders, and school them as well. In the beginning of the book you read and get lost of who is who. The main character is a boy name Ender; his real name is Andrew Wiggin. Orison wrote Ender's name as Andrew in the beginning but doesn't tells us that he was Ender later on. That's the only confusion I found in the book other wise Ender's Game is a fun and adventurous book that you won't be able to put down. The book leaves you on the edge of your seat every time you turn the page. If you like books that are about outer space and the Star Wars series like then this is the book I would recommend for you. It has romance, action, and betrayal all the things to make a book irresistible and unpredictable. Orison Scott Card made the book fun to read for ages 10 and up. He won the Nebula and the Hugo awards for Ender's Game, if you like this book then you should try out the other books in the Ender's Game series.
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Summary: Up There with All the Great Coming of Age Stories
Review: Ender's Game deserves more than to be one of the best Sci-Fi books of all time. It has all the elements: space, galactic war, imperial powers beyond individual control. In the end, though, Ender's Game is one of the great coming-of-age novels ever written, write up there with "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Catcher in the Rye." The story follows a young man through trials that force him into adulthood. Ender is the perfect young man: intelligent, angry at his powerlessness, his views fixed by his parents and society as an outcast. Through the story we see him grow, but not through contrived dialogue and classic "firsts." There is no loss of virginity, or facial hair, or "chats" with pop. Ender learns to win through competition; he learns of the power of force through beatings. He learns of oppression through futile dealings with magistrates. He also learns of camaraderie from friends, and of himself through isolation. The two greatest lessons he learns, however, are the tragedy of the story. He learns objectivity only too late, despite a video game that begs his attention to it repeatedly; when he exterminates a race of beings with whom he feels an unknown connection. And he learns responsibility when he devotes his life to preserving their memory. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It is the story of the future, but don't relegate it to the sci-fi shelves. For it is also a story of struggle, pain, of mistakes, and of learning. It deserves to be right up there on the classics rack.
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Summary: Ender's Game is the best science fiction book around
Review: When Ender Wiggin was taken to battle school, he had no knowledge of what he had said yes to.
Time is running out for the battle schoolteachers as well as the planet earth. The buggers (who are a species of alien) have attacked earth twice already. The IF (International Fleet) must destroy them, and their home planet once and for all. The teachers try to keep secrets from the battle school geniuses, but one thing that can't be kept secret is that the third battle is about to begin.
In a last effort the IF begins training geniuses at an early age. They do it so they have a suitable fleet when they start the third battle at the Bugger's home planet. There is almost no hope of winning the final battle in which one race must come to an end, but can the human race stay alive? Or will the buggers defeat them once and for all? Ages 11-adult. I have seen kids and adults reading this book so its great for anyone.
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Summary: Attack of the Buggers
Review: Ender's Game is one of the best books since The Lord Of The Rings. Orson Scott Card captures the life of a boy. Ender is sent into a battle school to train to fight the Formics, or Buggers, the evil alien race bent on destroying Earth. When the teachers start destroying all his advantages in training games for the sole purpose of challenging him, Ender doesn't know what to do! This book has many tense, exiting moments, and it has its sorrowful, sober parts. It uses wonderful words and similes. There is an adventurous storyline, and it makes us all hope Ender beats the Buggers. You will never want to stop reading this exiting book once you start it I guarantee it!
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