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Summary: Look to this for a definition of classic science fiction.
Review: I enjoy science fiction. I like the situations and possibilities that one can only find in the genre. That said, 'Ender's Game' is striking. Having just finished it today, it is easily one of the top ten books I have ever read. It has all the trappings of sci-fi yes... space travel, techno-gizmo, other planets, aliens, future societies. But it is in the end a human story. Ender is destined to be the savior for the human race. He begins the story at six years old, the third child in an age where population control results in a two child maximum. His brother and sister had the ability, but it must be him that will have the personality. He is humanity's last hope, and Card takes us on the journey through his eyes, though his heart.I look to books for entertainment in a form that music and books can't give me. An enjoyable, quick read. But Ender's story caused me to rethink alot of my opinions about alot of things. To question my beliefs about meaning in my life, even. For Ender to make it, he will have to endure a terrible life... one of isolation, lonelyiness, despair. There are many people, important people, who are interested in him. But no one to comfort him, befriend him, confide with him. What the military puts him through would be considered criminal by today's standards. He is denied a childhood, and barred from any type of postive emotion attachment. There is a reason that this book has still has such a following nearly twenty years after it was first published. By the time it nears 40, I am sure it will have taken it's place among '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,' '1984,' 'Stranger in a Strange Land,' 'Rendezvous with Rama,' 'Farenheight 451,' 'Foundation,' and 'Dune.'
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: A book that will intrigue people of all ages...
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Summary: The Best Book Ever Written
Review: There is no other way to put it. I have read other science fiction books, those who appeal to adults OR children, but never one that quite did what Ender's Game did. Throughout Ender's training in battle school, the teachers barrage him with tests that can't be won, challanges that can't be overcome, and obsticals that were to great to break through, and yet Ender finds ways that the teachers, or you would have never thought of. This child hero is the hero that appeals to children, and some adults. While on earth, the sibling of the boy wonder do their part to fire up the minds of the adults that hold politicial power overthe world. How these children deal with the problems facing Earth is definently how this book appeals to the adult readers. This book is great on its own, and better if you read the entire series. You can't go wrong reading this book.
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Summary: Sci-Fi Near Flop
Review: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a regular story that was packaged with a science fiction backdrop to make it more appealing. Ender's game does reflect problems in society by outlining the pressure that we put on the young to be number one. Ender's Game fails with grabbing the attention of an adult. The relationship between Ender and his sibling, Peter and Valentine, along with Enders internal stuggle to be the best or do what is right are the most important relationships and conflicts in the novel. Ender's game is a book for youth aged 10-16. My imaginiation wouldn't allow me the opportunity to enjoy this novel. I love science fiction but I think that Ender's Game fails at entertaining adult readers.
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Summary: The best book I have ever read!
Review: This is the best book I have ever read. It's about this military genius that calls himself Ender (short for Andrew) who is put in "Battle School" to defend the human race against buggers, bug-like organisms with one mind in the bunch of thousands. However, all people know that he will be the commander of the fleet to stop them. So, they put Ender (his real name is Andrew Wiggins)into isolation. In battle school, this causes him problems, but he still has a group of friends. When they promote him to Command School, he is six years too young, and, this time, he isn't around people his own age for any of the time. If he's not with teachers, he's with one teenager at a time, and he never sees one of them more than once. Finally, he only has one teacher: Mazer Rackham, the commander that defeated the buggers in the second invasion. Together, they have to find the rest of Ender's genius and get it to it's full potential before the next attack begins in five years. Ender tires out, and, before long, he is relying heavily on his commanders, all of the students that were his friends and fellow commanders at Battle School. I wish I could say more, but then you wouldn't need to read the book, so this review would be a waste of time.
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Summary: WOW
Review: as a school project i had to read a science fiction book. I chose Ender's Game. I was expecting it be a pretty boring book but i was so wrong... u should surley read it... i was suprised cause i dont like many books, but i have to say this was one of my favorites -;- -;- -;-
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Summary: The Best
Review: Hands down, the best work of fiction I've ever read.
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Summary: Never thought I'd like Sci-Fi
Review: I never was a big Sci-Fi fan. However, my husband suggested it as one of the books he'd read aloud to me in the evenings. I was hesitant at first, but it didn't take long to really get into the story. It was a real page-turner to me. You can read other reviews to find out more about the story's content, I just want to say it's more than a great Sci-Fi book, it's just a great book period.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I first read this book when I was 13 years old. It fascinated and amazed me then. Immediately after finishing it I started over and read it again. Eight years later, it is still my favorite book. I've read it countless times and anytime I am unsure of what to read next, I can always turn to Ender.
I have recommended this book to many people - most of whom do not have any particular interest in science-fiction, and all have loved it.
The beauty of the book is that everyone who reads it wants to be Ender. They are simpathetic towards him, and can somehow relate to what he goes through.
Buy it, read it, love it.
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Summary: Almost
Review: This is probably one of the most well written books that I have ever read, very intruiging, and interesting. However despite the author's explanations in the beginning of the book, he does not manage to make the characters people. He obviously is trying to delve at emotions, and the like, but the characters come across without the genuine, human feel, that is needed for a sense of completion in any novel. A very good read, but the characters do not satisfy.
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