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Summary: Unexpectedly exciting book
Review: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is an excellent, futuristic novel. The youthful yet complex protagonist, Ender Wiggins, is an intriguing young boy who, at the age of 6, has been taken away from his family by choice to pursue his worldly duty. Ender is taken to Battle School in which he is prepared to battle and defeat the "buggers", Earth's most feared attackers. Ender is a social pariah who strives for acceptance from both his peers and superiors. He thinks that the only way to gain acceptance is to succeed in Battle School; however, this feat is not as easy as it may seem. The game in which Ender trains is actually the tactics in which the military uses to defeat the "buggers". Ender does have special talents, but the reader is definitely aware that he is just an "average" boy. He, as any other young boy, has obstacles such as bullies, loneliness, and confusion, to overcome. By using his intellect, Ender conquers all of these obstacle.
Card does a magnificent job in explaining the "buggers" and showing the necessity of the Battle School. This novel makes one wonder what extent, we as humans, would go to prevent harm and difference. We have seen how we deal with difference: slavery, genocide, and prejudice. What would occur if the entire human race was in danger and under attack; would every difference be ignored and the major similarity, humanity, be focused upon? We'll never know unless we encounter such a problem. I would recommend this novel to anyone who wants to read an interesting yet intriguing novel. I really enjoyed it although I'm not really fond of "sci-fi" novels.
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Summary: Powerful, It makes you think
Review: I looked at Ender's Game dauntingly. Not because it is overly thick, but I had never really read a ton of scifi. Then I started it as a school book and couldn't put it down.
Ender'sgame is about a boy named Ender, his trip to a "Battle School" in a time where Earth is shadowed by the threat of an alien race called Buggers. Ender and other highly gifted children are being brought to Battle School in hopes of fostering new millitary leaders. The story is an emotional overload, exploring the ideas of human nature, ethics, child vs. adult, and so much more. Card's genius pulls you along slowly until you explode into the ending. Then you pick up the book to read it again.
An absolute must read for anyone, even those who have not had a pleasent experience in scifi. Card wrote that he wanted Ender's Game to be accessible to any reader, and it is.
In for the book you'll never be able to put down? Then Ender's Game is for you!
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Summary: The Really Good Book
Review: In the begining Ender is young he is six and gets chosen for battleschool.The people who chose him say he's a genius and may be man kind's last hope against the bugger war.In the middle of the book Ender has his own army in the battleschool.In the end Ender is in commandschool and destroys the bugger fleet without knowing it.I like this book because it's in the future and it's a scifi book with lot's of adventure.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's Game is such a great book. Scott caught my attention from the beginning as I was trying to figure out what kind of monitor he kept talking about. Once I caught on to what he was talking about and the importance of the monitor, I began to enjoy the book. Ender's Game is a book that tells of Buggers having invaded planet earth two times. Because of the previous invasions, the government decides to prepare themselves for the next invasion. The society is completely controlled by the government. Ender came out of a family of geniuses. Out of the family, he was the one who was picked to go to the Battle School. The government has no feelings when it comes to the life Ender has to live. They feel as if Ender was born for one reason only and that was to help in the defeat of the Buggers. Although Ender is forced to do certain things, he still has problems just as all the kids do. Ender has to choose between right and wrong on many occasions. One reason why I really liked this book is because some of the things that Ender had to go through were real life situations and I could relate to them. I am not a big reader of science fiction but I really enjoyed this book.
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Summary: Possibly the best sci-fi book written
Review: Card is a genious, but occasionally, even geniuses outdo themselves. Ender's Game is one of those books. Orson Scott Card creates a plausible yet terrifying futuristic reality where the fate of humanity rests in the able hands of a small boy genius.This books gets into the psyche of Andrew Wiggin, a boy ripped from his parents and society at the age of 6 to become a warrior and a general. Card deals with the emotional trauma of being isolated from society and the impact it could have on pre-adolescent boys. Card's alien creatures 'The Buggers' are frightening but believable and Card figures out not only how a human mind works, but also how an alien's mind operates. This is a must for any sci-fi library.
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Summary: worth reading again
Review: The first time i read Ender's Game was in 1988, when i was in the 8th grade. I liked the book back then but now after all of these years i loved it. Ender Wiggins just amazes me and i am encouraging other people to read this classic book.
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Summary: I really enjoyed this book
Review: I bought Ender's Game because so many people recommended it to me. Later I wondered why I had listened. A book about a little boy who is a genius, taken away from his family at the age of six to save the world? Not my cup of tea, or so I thought. One of my reading groups, Armchair Readers 2, was doing a group read of Ender's Game and I thought I might as well read it with them.I was pulled in almost from the beginning. When Earth was attacked by the "Buggers", they were taken by surprise. It was almost an accident that humans were able to destroy them. To prepare for another invasion, Earth began breeding military geniuses who would save the world. Children wore monitors from an early age so that their every thought, word, and deed was recorded. Ender Wiggin was the best of the best. Taken from his family at the age of six, he begins his education in war games strategy and command. My heart ached for Ender's lost childhood and loneliness. As each test got harder and his isolation more complete, his determination for success grew. He knew he couldn't depend on anyone but himself because that was all he had. I quickly became attached to Ender and some of the secondary characters, as well. Geniuses all, they knew the world was depending on them and they pushed themselves to their limits. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Ender's Game ....... compared to Ender's Shadow
Review: ...I read Ender's Game for the first time about a year ago, enjoyed it, read Ender's Shadow, (a parallel novel, meaning it's the same story from another character's point of view), and just recently reread Ender's Game and found it not as exciting as it was the first time. In Ender's Shadow the plot is the same, but the character is different. Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Shadow in much more depth ... it essentially being the second time he wrote the book. Ender's Game is a story, a few thoughts, an overlook of other characters, and a finale. The action and the happenings of the book make it interesting. But Ender's Shadow, on the other hand, hardly mentions any monumental happenings other than the things happening in the main character, Bean's, direct world. After reading Ender's Game for a second time, I would have enjoyed to have Ender more deeply brought out. He is a rather shallow character in comparison to Bean, (the main character of Ender's Shadow), and he has no real personality. Only simple emotions are found in Ender, while Bean has a much more complicated mind. Ender's Shadow goes inside Bean and tells of his life, while Ender's Game tells the story of battle school where Ender just happens to be the best person there. In Ender's Shadow you know what Bean thinks, you know how he feels, and you understand him more. Ender's Game just has action. Before I reread Ender's Game ... right after I finished Ender's Shadow ... I was a bit disappointed and I missed the action of Ender's Game. But after reading Ender's Game again I missed the in depth characters. There are high points and low points to both books ... the action of Ender's Game compared to the depth of Ender's Shadow. I had to give this book four stars. If I had reviewed it after the first time I read it I would have given it five. But there are things that it is missing that Ender's Shadow holds, and there are things that Ender's Shadow holds that Ender's Game is missing. Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Game, then wrote Ender's Shadow, adding everything that Ender's Game didn't have. The two books kind of depend on each other, and for those of you who have read Ender's Game, I highly suggest reading Ender's Shadow. It will give you not only a more in depth look into the battle school, it will also show you other characters from the same time period.
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Summary: A review
Review: Ender's Game is the first novel in a four-book science fiction series written by Orson Scott Card. The main charecter, Ender Wiggin, is being sent to a military program in space designed to prepare and train childeren as soldiers in the next invasion by the buggers, a feared race of aliens who have twice nearly brought humanity to the brink of destruction. This book is very dramatic, makes you think, and in my opinion is a very good read. If you like science fiction novels, I highly suggest you read this book and find out what happens to Ender! However, if you are a slower reader (no offense), I would not suggest this book. If you have already read this book an would like to read the other books in this series they are Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Chideren of the Mind.
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Summary: A Must-Read.....
Review: Ender's Game is an exciting book about a young man named Ender who uses his genius abilities to plan a counter-attack to save Earth from being completely destroyed. He uses some strategies that would probably work in today's times, if needed...
I would recommend all to read this book because it is full of adventure and intrigue and it will keep you coming back for more.
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