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Summary: A good book
Review: Ender's Game,the story of a young boy who is given the burden to save the entire human race from the invasion of an evil alien race called the Buggers. With several twists and turns this book takes you on an amazing journey throughout the entire book with a surprize ending to finish it off.
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Summary: Review of Enders Game
Review: I read Ender's Shadow first and I found it better than Ender's Game but probably because i read it first. So, read Ender's game first.
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Summary: Ethics in Ender's
Review: Ender's Game was a deeply concentrated novel that imposed and introspected what the effects of technology on ethics and lifestyle could be. How ethical was the use of science in weeding out the perfect soldier? I am proposing that the methodology of the scientists and military was absolutely inexcusable in the way that they molded Ender from childhood and took advantage of his bad home situation. Throughout the entire novel, Ender is being talked about behind his back and his entire future is being decided. Is he or is he not the prefect soldier that is bred to save mankind?
Ender is the third son of the family which was illegal to have in the time this novel takes place. The government allowed them to have a "third" because they wanted to experiment to find the perfect soldier. To what extent should genetic experiments be sanctioned by a governing body? This is in fact exactly what the "powers that be" is this novel do. They produce and mold Ender as the prodigal soldier who makes the right decision in battle (with a bully at his school) and is the ushered into a final situation where worldly ethics and boundaries of technology are given a questionable reality.
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Summary: Almost scary
Review: Ender's Game is a book that really made me wonder what my students would try just by reading it. In today's society you have so many young people who watch things on television and read things in books just to go back and mimick it. Ender's Game is very futuristic and involves alot of fantasy, however some of the things that happened in the book did not seem so far from being real. Enders Game really shows how powerful the computer industry could be if the right people put the right things together. I see no reason as to why a middle school students imagination wouldn't make this story reality. Although it is fictional and most of it is fantasy, there is really nothing that says this can't happen. Modern technology almost proves it.Therefore I would not recommend this book to teachers of public schools because you could be held responsible for your students imagination. The book is too far advanced in technology to be real however the story line of Ender growing up to find a meaning for his life all alone is a good topic. Still, I don't agree that futuristic happenings are the way to do it because too much can be made into reality as a goal.
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Summary: One of my Top 10
Review: This book was given to me as a advanced reader's edition for the re-issuing in 2001. I'll admit, I was doubtful, but I'm so glad I read it! I even have an email with a referance to Ender's Game in it!
I am part of a Reviewers Staff group at a bookstore, so my job was to read it, write a review for the store, and then tell people about it. As you can see, I loved it, and am now typing this review for anyone in doubt of Ender's Game. This book was really superb. My top ten books of all time (so far) are all six Ender's Game series, (including Beans' Shadow books, he's another Battle School Graduate) and the four Harry Potter books. Two more "Shadow" books are coming out soon. Then the final count will be eight for Ender's Game.
I so far have gotten five people to read Ender's Game. They haven't finished, but they say they love the Battleroom, the weight-less "room" where the child military geniuses have mock battles against other mock armies (such as Rat, Salamander and Dragon.). Older students are the commanders of the armies, and experianced soldiers are platoon (or just plain toon) leaders. The rest of the soldiers are just soldiers. There is one remarkable thing about these soldiers, though. They are taken from their homes at age five or six, and graduate from Battle School at age fourteen or sixteen. They spend their entire childhood in space! They are then shuttled off to Tactical, Stratigical or Pre-Command School. Lastly, they fly to Command School, where even the location is a secret, and nobody under twenty-five is trusted. This is a pretty bad mistake, considering they put their future of humanity in the hands of a bunch of 10 year-olds. This isn't a game anymore, they are trying to save humanity against the ultimate enemy, the Buggers.
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Summary: One of my Top 10
Review: This book was given to me as a advanced reader's edition for the re-issuing in 2001. I'll admit, I was doubtful, but I'm so glad I read it!
I am part of a Reviewers Staff group at a bookstore, so my job was to read it, write a review for the store, and then tell people about it. As you can see, I loved it, and am now typing this review for anyone in doubt of Ender's Game. This book was really superb. My top ten books of all time (so far) are all six Ender's Game series, (including Beans' Shadow books, he's another Battle School Graduate) and the four Harry Potter books. Two more "Shadow" books are coming out soon. Then the final count will be eight for Ender's Game.
I so far have gotten five people to read Ender's Game. They haven't finished, but they say they love the Battleroom, the weight-less "room" where the child military geniuses have mock battles against other mock armies (such as Rat, Salamander and Dragon.). Older students are the commanders of the armies, and experianced soldiers are platoon (or just plain toon) leaders. The rest of the soldiers are just soldiers. There is one remarkable thing about these soldiers, though. They are taken from their homes at age five or six, and graduate from Battle School at age fourteen or sixteen. They spend their entire childhood in space! They are then shuttled off to Tactical, Stratigical or Pre-Command School. Lastly, they fly to Command School, where even the location is a secret, and nobody under twenty-five is trusted. This is a pretty bad mistake, considering they put their future of humanity in the hands of a bunch of 10 year-olds. This isn't a game anymore, they are trying to save humanity against the ultimate enemy, the Buggers.
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Summary: Among the best
Review: Orson Scott Card wrote a masterpiece with this novel. Thought-provoking, emotional, creative...an all-around brilliant book. Imagine being an eight year old boy chosen to save the human race. This book is as good as most things Robert A. Heinlein wrote, and that's saying a lot.
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Summary: Good, but definitely not "Wow!"
Review: I enjoyed reading this book, but I was not "wowed" by it. I kept waiting for the book to suddenly come together and live up to its reputation, but it never did.This book is an adventuresome story of Ender Wiggins, a young genius boy in a future universe where human survival is threatened by an alien "bugger" race. Ender's life is a struggle as his family's third child in a society with a two-child limit law. His life changes when he is 'manipulated' into a training facility where he quickly becomes mankind's greatest military leader and ultimately saves the human race. Card's detailed descriptions of the actions in and around the training facilities' Battle Room were fantastic and by far the best parts of the book. I was taught in college that fiction writers (especially science fiction) should lead their readers into a "willing suspension of disbelief." That is, get them to willingly accept and believe in something that is not real. Card was never able to get me to the point where I accepted or believed in a future world where genius adolescent children had such power and influence as Ender and his siblings and friends. The story flowed smoothly and I was easily able to follow it, but I just did not believe it. I am not a big science fiction or fantasy reader, but I did read and enjoy Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and "Space Cadet," Robert Adams' "Horseclans" series, Barry Sadler's "Casca" series, and Robert E. Howard's "Conan" series (and most of the subsequent writers of Conan's adventures). I was disappointed that this book was not as good as those books mentioned above and I have no intentions of reading the rest of the Ender series.
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Summary: Adventure
Review: Ender's Game is a science fiction book writing by Orson Scott Card. The book was full of adventure that leads the reader into superior imagination. The book focus of a main character name Ender that was sent to a military program in space to train other kids for an alien invasion that was going to take place against these species called the "Buggers". Throughout this book Orson will take the reader through the imagination of an alien invasion that takes place through the journey of Ender's life.Orson takes the reader through the devastating trials of an alien invasion and the ideas of the Earth and futur3e.
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Summary: Class of its own
Review: Enders Game is truely one of the best books I have ever read. To give you an idea, my copy of the book no longer has covers because I have read it so often. The story starts off with a little kid, Ender, who is a 'normal' little kid with a 'twist.' He's brilliant, an all around genious. Ender then goes on to save the world in a way that I would have never expected. This book is written in such a way that you're never sure what will happen next, and it always exceeds your wildest expectations on how it will end. I have told tens of people about this book and even let people borrow my copy so they can read it, and not a single person has been disapointed. In fact, many of those I have let borrow it, liked the book so much they have started to read books again. I would most definately suggest this book to anyone and everyone. When I first read this book I was in Grade 7, I've since graduated and still read it on a regular basis. Warning: Enders Game gave me such an interest in Scott Card that I purchased every one of his books that I could find, this can hurt the pocket book if you are only a student like I was. :)
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