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Summary: Great Book!!!
Review: I picked up this book at the advice of a friend. I read it, and loved it...then lent it to a friend. Everyone who read it gave it to a friend to read...and everyone loved it. I read the rest of the series and it got a bit "crazy", but this book is one you dare not pass up!!!
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Summary: Hell Yeah!!
Review: I got this book a few years ago for a b-day present. i thought it would be another book to read, but once i sat down to read it, i instantly fell in love with it. i have read it four times and the rest of the series, including ender's shadow. i think that any kid between 13 and 25 should read this book.
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Summary: Simply Amazing
Review: I was required to read this book in High School. While I have enjoyed reading for most of my life, this book did much more than give me something to read. Through Ender's Game I was able to understand that every situation is different to every person. It was through this book that I am able today to see both sides of an arguement. When any of my friends graduate high school OR college this book is, at least, part of their graduation present. I have read the entire series (so far) of Ender, but this one is entirely different in its importance on me.
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Summary: Wow
Review: If your reading this reveiw I am guessing that you have never read this book. If you have never read this book I want to know what sort of sheltered life you have lived because you are missing out on the BEST reading experience you will ever have. Read this book. If you have already read this book, read it again. If you don't like it then read it again. Continue reading this book until you love it.This is the BEST book in the world and most people fall in love with it the first time they read it.
--LeiaOrganaSW :)
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Summary: Psy-fi
Review: This is psychological science fiction- the technology and concepts serve the story, not the other way around. It reads, however, like it's a simple story. I found it a page turner, as apparently many other people on amazon did. And to me, this is the reason why so many people like this book. Smart books that read easily are hard to come by. I read a few reviews that found the book to be boring; I never found it to be. The battle room sequences might be hard to follow if you're not an action fan...some people might find the politics behind Peter and Valentine's online column efforts boring...and a lot of people seem to flat out reject the idea of kids acting like adults. Yet, although the kids are unrealistically clever and intelligent, they're still quite immature, bullying and teasing each other. They're genetically engineered to learn faster, Card briefly explains (which might be why some reviewers seemed to miss the explantion), but they're still kids. Ender is a character that's very easy to identify with. He has talents that he does not understand. I often felt like I would have reacted to things the same way he does. If I didn't feel the same way he did, I at least understood his reasons. This book is closer to second person perspective than any other book I've read.
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Summary: Better than I expected it to be.
Review: A friend of mine pushed this book on me telling me I had to read it. He already convinced me once to read When Gravity Fails by Effinger, and I almost didn't finish it because, well, I don't like Sci-Fi. Ender's Game was a decent book, it wasn't monumental or anything, but it kept me entertained for a couple of hours. Card is a decent writer and he puts together a good story.
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Summary: Personal Experience with Ender's Game
Review: I love this book; it is definately going to be a classic (and already is, now that you mention it). Except for my Western loving dad, who found the book to be "OK," everyone I've spoken to who has read the book loved every minute of it. I opened it as I was walking down the steps to the car. I read the first sentence and was immediately hooked, I read it as I got in the car, got buckled, rode with my parents to the restaurant, read it while waiting on the table, walking to the table, sitting at the table, eating my dinner, as my dad paid for the meal, as I got back in the car, all the way home, etc. until I finished the book. This, my friends, does not happen very often.
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Summary: Simply Inspiring
Review: I can't think of any other book that has had more impact in my life. It might be because I was the lonely kid that received praise from my teachers and then, in turn, evil and distrusting looks from my peers. It is a requirement for all my closest friends to read this book not just to enjoy such an intense and revealing book but also to help them understand who I am since I have drawn Ender's experience into my life; it has become part of who I am. Everyone that I have recommended this book to and who have read it started and finished reading it within days. They have thanked me for leading them to such a thought-provoking and introspective gaze through the eyes of a little boy-genius. Simply inspiring.
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Summary: THIS IS THE BEST!
Review: This is definetly the best book I have ever read. I want to read it again and again! Ender has to face many challenges and the men purposly put him up to these challenges to see how tough he is so that he can fight in the war with the "buggers", an alien race that is threatening human kind. I have read the second one, Speaker For the Dead, and am currently reading Xenocide, the third one. Orson Scott Card is definatly the best author and I love his work and am inspired by him. You will have to read this book!!
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Summary: Good but not great
Review: I'm not a big sci-fi reader. I have read books like 1984 and Contact and some Micheal Crichton books, but that's about it. Actually, Ender's Game is my first sci-fi novel that is a part of a series of books. I thought it was pretty good, but not great. The main guy in the book is Ender described as a child super-genius. (Actually, Ender's genius mainly lies in being good in what can be thought of as a computer-game called the Simulator, and I wouldn't classify good gamers as geniuses, but oh well I'm rambling.) So this kid is really smart and thinks way too much about everything, and he also has to save the world from aliens (which of course look like giant bugs - no points for originality here). Ender is interesting to read about as we get to know him in the beginning of the book, but as the story moves on he gets pretty boring and predictable. He is your typical lonely depressed genius. The book doesn't really try to develop other characters. There's Valentine (Ender's sister) and Peter (Ender's brother). A note about Peter - this kid is smart like Ender, but he's also mean and witty, and that made him pretty entertaining. Maybe it's just me, but I was amused by this guy and would have liked to read more about him. The book starts off very well, but it gets boring and repetitious in the middle, but it picks up again in the end. Orson Scott has a few interesting ideas about the future, but he's more interested in telling us what Ender thinks all the time than anything else. I don't mind being in the mind of an interesting character, but Ender wasn't interesting to me. The Battle Room games are described in great detail, but I found them tedious and hard to follow. Another problem was that sometimes the kids didn't talk like kids. It would have been easier to digest some of the weighty dialogue if the characters were 16 or 26 instead of 6 year olds. I know I've mainly focused on what I didn't like about the book, but I still give it a good recommendation. The book starts off well, and I loved the surprises in the last two or three chapters. *** stars
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