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Summary: A Delicious Book!!!
Review: Ender's Game is truly one of my most favorite novels I've read lately. I think that it's plot is very interesting and Ender, the main character is very easy to relate to.
The book, about a young boy plucked from his home and sent to a training camp for soldiers who are potential beings who may save the Earth from alien buggers in a lengthy war, is very clever. Ender is moved up in ranks early and leads a team of inexperienced kids around his age in a game that the base is centered around. The most interesting part is the descriptions of Ender's feelings and how he copes with the high expectations and the pressure of being a prodigy and expected to save the Earth.
The novel has a very surprising twist at the end and is most definately worth the time to read through it. There are also many sequals and books that just add on the the storyline that are also exremely interesting, but not quite as good as this one.
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Summary: A Science Fiction Classic!
Review: A couple words- Read this book!
Ender's Game follows Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin, a brilliant young boy who is brought to the orbital training station. There, he recieves training to become a military commander.
Earth had been attacked by a race of aliens, who were trying to take over the planet for their uses. The human race then fought them off, and prepared for another invasion. They took children, and trained them to lead the defense of earth. Ender is among the smartest ever.
He is trained at Battle school, where he takes part in a series of games, or mock battles. He developes new tactics, and along the way, realizes the truth behind the battles.
I was taken away by the story of Ender, and am a fan of the other Ender series books.
What made Ender's Game so brillient was the morals and the exploration of the human mind that Orson Scott Card wrote. Ender goes from a scared little kid to a mature teen under battle condistions and the way it was portrayed was phenominal. Ender burns out, realizing what he has done and what he has to do to live up to the stresses that he was shaped under.
Ender is nothing short of brillient. He created a new way of thinking in the battle school, and shows the underlining hero-against-society plot, and the hero-under-pressure plot. This book touches the basic human in a person, friendship, leadership, love and care-- not to mention morals.
In the end, ender has to choose between the human race and the aliens in order to survive.
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Summary: One of my favorite sci-fi classics ever ......
Review: As a reader of philosophical and thoughful science fiction , I first expected Ender's Game to be yet another action packed but lacking in plot novel about smashing an invading race of aliens into smithereens. Boy was I wrong ! Reading this book was like looking in the mirror. Card skillfully decribes his characters and their actions, and paints an accurate portrait of bright ambitious young people involved in psycological struggle.
If a tad too flattering to it's subjects and their abilities , the book does present interesting perspectives on millitary and political strategy. However, be prepared for an ending that screams "sequel " , and rather skeletal descriptions of the main adult characters. A particularily interesting subplot involves one of the book's few female characters and her malevolent brother trying to manipulate international politics through publishing their writings on the internet. If far fetched, this subplot does provide interesting questions for an increasing digital age.
I highly recommend Ender's Game , especially for intelligent younger readers who could empathize more directly with the characters. This book seems to break out of the traditional boundaries of the science fiction genre and provides an outstanding example of fiction that is both entertaining and thought provoking.
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Summary: A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!
Review: This is one of those books that should be read in high school english class- a true classic. (...) I was fascinated from the very beginning to the very end of the book; I couldn't put it down! Ender is a fabulously well-thought out character, and the 'virtual world' Orson Scott Card has created in my mind is astonishing- I've been having DREAMS about it for goodness sakes! Bravo, O.S. Card, for this literary masterpiece!!
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's Game is not the type of book that I would usually pick up and read. Then my teacher made me read it for English class and I fell in love with it. It kept my attention throught the whole thing. The ending was kind of weak but the rest makes up for it. I would definitely recommend this book.
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Summary: A Book For All Ages
Review: I personally believe that Ender's Game is a fictional masterpiece. The human existance is in jeopardy after two attacks from the Buggers. The government decides to hire boy geniuses to go up in space and train if their skills were ever needed. The best of the best geniuses is 5 year old Ender Wiggin. Ender attends the training school in outer space where he soon becomes greater than everybody. Ender is a fast learner and is soon skipping grades. He graduates from Training school before any other kid his age. Ender then attends Command school where he is six years younger than all the other students. Ender has to learn fast before the Buggers attack again and destroy the human species. It is up to Ender to save the world.
If you are a fan of Star Wars and Harry Potter, then you will find a new favorite. Ender's Game is a fun and adventurous book that is for all ages. If you don't like Ender's Game then you shold sell your reading glasses.
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Summary: Ender¿s Game by Orson Scott Card
Review: The first book of the Ender's Saga, "Ender's Game" is brilliantly written and will keep you reading page after page without any though of stopping for a break.Andrew Wiggin, known to everyone just as Ender, at the age of six is asked to leave his family on the planet earth to journey to the Belt. Ender is a child prodigy and there is a reason the government want to send him to Battle School at the Belt. Humanity is under the constant threat from an alien race called the Buggers. No one seems to know anything about them but people on earth believe that after being defeated long time ago, the Buggers will try again to attack the humans. The people are ready, they have the troops, the weapons, the technology, but they still don't have one very important thing, they don't have a commander to lead them. And their only hope rests on young Ender's. From the moment he reaches Battle School, his life is strictly disciplined by mind games, isolation, patience, computers, and mock battles. As the invasion draws closer and closer and Ender must be pushed to his limits. Will Ender be able to endure the pressure? Full of surprises, twists and turns, "Ender's Game" is for all science fiction lovers. Very realistic and fun to read. The ending will really shock you... I was!! My favorite parts are probably all the mock-battles and the very end. The only problem I have in this book, the reason for only 4 stars, is because of the language. But except for that I would have given this book 5 stars and I recommend this book for older kids and adults who can handle it and some of the violence. The other books of the Ender's Saga is "Speaker for the Dead", "Xenocide", "Children of the Mind", "Ender's Shadow", and "Shadow of Hegemon".
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Summary: This is the best book ever!
Review: This is my favorite book ever. If u like sci-fi read it! Anyone who doesn't like it is stupid cuz they don't get it so read it
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Summary: One of the best novels out there
Review: I am always suspicious when someone tells me a book is one of the best ever written. I think that stems from reading all of those "classic" books in school and having it reiterated year after year that each represents one of the best stories ever created. Many of you have probably experienced the same kind of letdown when reading those kinds of books. That disappointing experience did not take place after I read this novel. I don't know about anyone one else, but when I read a great story, I always feel blessed to have been touched by creative genius. The blessing really rained down with this book! In this story, Orson Scott Card explains piece-by-piece, detail-by-detail, why events happen and how decisions are made. He provides the psychology involved in even the most mundane actions or thoughts. This may sound boring to some, but if you like investigative/forensic TV shows and novels, then you have the mindset to fall in love with Ender's Game. In an age when couples must be granted permission to have children and having more than one is rare, Andrew Wiggin is the third child born to his parents. Rather than this being a blessing or even just another birth, Andrew's birth is seen as a disgrace by society. NO ONE is irresponsible enough to bring three kids into the world. Hence the terrible nickname "Ender" meaning the "last and least one". Our hero is a 10 year old stategic boy genius who has been chosen to join an elite, intergalactic Battle School. There, he is expected to be a part of the battalion that will eventually engage Earth's enemy, the Buggers. All of the students of Battle School are children. Why? Because the Buggers (an insect-like species), are light years away. The school is in space and traveling toward the Buggers' homeworld. At their present speed, any adult who joined the school would be too old to fight once they encountered their enemy. So if they are so far away, why go to them? Earth has been attacked twice and devastated by the Buggers. It has been decided to take the war to them so that, if the fleet looses, the people of Earth will have a little more time to prepare a defense. Although Ender is a genius, he is an outcast. He receives little respect at home or at Battle School. So, before he can use his talents to defeat the Buggers, he must first survive against his enemies on Earth and in school. There is more than one story taking place in this novel. In fact, this book could have been entitled "Wiggin's Game", because Ender isn't the only member of his family with formidable intellectual and strategic skill. Both his brother and sister were almost chosen for Battle School, but were deemed unsuitable. They are apparently not unsuitable to literally vie for leadership on Earth, even though they are only children! How can they do it? Read the book.
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Summary: Read it - Love it!
Review: In English class in tenth grade, my English teacher told us to buy a book for class. We were groaning and whining that we had to buy stupid-English-book. However, it turned out everyone in my class and other classes loved this book and thought it was so much worthy to buy it. Although Ender's Game is a Sci-Fi, it doesn't feel like Sci-Fi at all. Everyone loved how Ender grew and learned his way to reach his goal, and everyone's hope. Irony happnes in the end of this book makes readers to dumbfounded. LOVE THIS BOOK! you are not sure to buy it and read it because you are afraid to don't like this book, THEN YOU MUST BUY THIS BOOK - ENDER"S GAME IS NOT ONE OF THAT KIND OF BOOKS... YOU WILL LOVE IT!
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