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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's Game took place in the far future. America at that time only allowed a family to have two children. If they had three children, then the third child was called a "Third". Third's were made fun of by their school classmates, family members, and other people around them. Ender was a third and had to have a monitor put in the back of his neck. All thirds could be distinguished from the other children by the monitor in the back of their neck. Ender was about five or six years old when he got tired of Stilson's gang making fun of him so he got in a fight with Stilson, the biggest bully in his class. Ender beat Stilson up so bad that he killed him. The next day an I.F. officer named General Graff came to his house to recruit Ender to Battle school. Ender accepted this offer but he had to make a big sacrifice. He had to decide whether to leave his sister Valentine and not see her until he was eighteen or save the human race from the destruction by the Buggers. When Ender arrived to Battle school he got in another fight because someone was picking on him. Ender broke Bernard's arm and was then known to be one of the best students at the Battle school. Ender was quickly promoted from launchy to a soldier in Salamander army. Ender could never fight in a battle because his leader Bonzo would not have a six year old fighting on his squad. One day Ender got tired of watching Bonzo loss so he went into the battle room and saved his army from being killed. After Ender's saved his army from a loose, he got traded to Phoenix army. At age seven, Ender became the number one soldier in the battle game. When Ender was ten he was given his own army of nothing but launchies. His armies name was dragon and dragon army was the worst army in the history of the Battle school. But since Ender Wiggen was the new leader things changed quickly. Other leaders quickly hated Ender because no matter what the odds where, Ender was going to win every battle he was in. After Ender had had a perfect record with no loses he was then graduated to Command school. Ender was the youngest person, ten years old, ever to graduate from Battle school. At Command school Mazer Rackham trained him. Mazer was very famous for defeating the buggers in the second invasion. Since Mazer was to hold he had to train someone else to go into battle. Ender was quickly promoted to captain and had to lead all the other ships into what seemed to be a simulator of a battle. After Ender had fought his way to the last level of the Buggers simulator game he was told that if he won this level than he was finished with Command school. Well, Ender was awesome in the battle and won it, killing of the Bugger race. When he jumped out of the simulator he was greeted by cheering people. Ender had no clue what was going on until Mazer announced that it was not a simulator battle, it was the real thing and that Ender Wiggen was the new hero of the world because he had destroyed the whole Bugger population. At the end of the story Ender was greeted by his sister valentine and made their new home fifty years away from earth in one of the old Bugger camps. Ender was a quiet character but he had a strong hatred in his heart. He knew he had this hatred but did not want to use it. His brother Peter gave him this hatred because he always made fun of Ender and his sister. Valentine was probably the only person that truly loved Ender. His parents loved him but since he was a third that did not love him as much as they're other two children. General Graff was the only person Ender considers as his friend. The theme to Ender's Game is: no matter how hard you try to get ride of a memory or hatred it will always stay with you for the rest of your life. The only thing I disagree about the book is that, I wish the author had explained more about what happened with the new colonization. I guess that the author told about the colonization in one of his sequels. On the whole, I thought Ender's Game was one of the best books I have ever read. I loved the setting and the whole outer space theme. I cannot wait to read Ender's Shadow.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: The book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a fictional story about the future. The eleven-year span of the book follows the life of a boy named Ender from the ages seven to eighteen. After being trained at pilot school Ender ends up being the hero of the world. This action story centers around the theme of good verses evil.
The author uses Ender's relationship with his brother to illustrate the theme of good and evil. He also uses the alien characters that are trying to take over the world called the buggers to contrast good and bad. In the end good wins out over bad and Ender, who represents goodness, is the hero of the story. He ends up saving the world through his mental toughness.
The author uses conflicts between Ender and the buggers to make the reader wonder what is going to happen next. Descriptions of what things are like in the future make the setting intriguing. The book made me wonder what the future will be like. Things like the space center and the virtual, real life computer games make the reader curious about the years ahead.
Although the strange names help to make the story feel like it isn't happening in the present, it is sometimes difficult to keep up with the characters and their unusual names. The difficult names are a bit distracting to the reader. However, Ender's Game is an interesting book that gives the reader some idea of what life could be like in the future. I found it to be an exciting and suspenseful science fiction novel.
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Summary: Fantastic! Though it's more of a prequel...
Review: This book is definitely one of the best books I have ever read(ecclipsed only by the others in the series) Although this book was the first one published, Mr. Card intended Speaker to be the true book and I like to look at it that way. Ender's Game is more of a prequel than anything. But that certainly does not mean you shouldn't read it. It's sci-fi action at it's greatest, and I doubt you could find a book children would be more willing to read(save Harry Potter) If your a pre-teen fan of this book, wait a few years before you read the sequels and entertain yourself with "Ender's Shadow"
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Summary: Best book ive ever read
Review: An uncle of mine gave me this book. I wasnt previously a science fiction fan, let alone a Card fan. Now im both. This book is so...so...so HUMAN. Maybe its because of the fact that i was a young boy, like Ender, when i read it, but something about this book is unforgettable. I can pick it up still today and just read random pages of it, and ill enjoy it. The story is so touching, and even though Ender is a genius, i think he has an every-man quality that is undescribable. A previous reviewer mentioned that the queen as weakness idea was a drawback to the book. He obviously didnt read the whole book, or maybe hes just ignorant. The weakness he speaks of was actually the alien homeplanet. The queen turned out to be the very opposite, giving Ender a new hope.
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Summary: Childhood dreams
Review: This is really a great book. I really connected to the book, becuase through out my childhood, i dreamed of being the world's best stratiegist. Or soldier. Ender is like that. But ender is this young boy, not wanting to be a soldier, and a reject. A Third. It shows how he being someone that everyone hated, picked on to winning their trust, to doing sooo many wonderful things. I could go on, i just don't want to spoil it for you. I really recommend you read this.
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Summary: Good!
Review: Ender's Game is a good read. I think it has the word 'fart' in it way too much. You'd think we'ed become more advanced as a society than to say 'fart' all of the time. Especially child geniuses. Oh well, maybe my idealistic hopes for humanity are unrealistic.
Seriously though, it's good, the character of Ender is excellent, and the whole Battle School scenario is fascinating. Reminds me, in a weird way, of The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea.
Also, the nod to Ursula LeGuin is nice. I still think Phillip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard are the best for being psychologically disturbing sci-fi, but this had me pondering war and children for quite a while.
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Summary: Best Sci-fi Book I've Read
Review: How do I begin? It's increadibly hard to talk about Ender's Game (and the rest of the series) to someone who hasn't read it. The story is about an 8-year-old boy, Ender, who is tormented by his peers and by his older brother. He is an embarasment to his parents, as he is their third child, and the only reason he was born was for the milatary. He is a genius and the milatary wants his mind for its ability to understand his enemy and still be cunning.
But the story isn't all that the book is about. Character depth and development is a big part of the book. Also, Card explores the child's mind, especially gifted ones. Most other books with children as characters potray the children as faceless, lifeless cardboard cutouts. This is not the case in any of the Ender books.
Overall, Ender's game must be read to be valued. I have finished the sequel, Speaker for the Dead, and am currently reading Xenocide, the third book in the series.
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Summary: Excellent! But.....
Review: This book was totally AWESOME! Not only does it have a very interesting and unique stting and story line, but Orson Scott Card is able to reflect the feelings inside poor little Ender very well. It is my favorite science fiction bood, BUT, it had the stupidest ending about how the buggers were killed!
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Summary: enjoyable but not excellent
Review: In case this is the first review you encounter, here is a brief summary: Ender is one of many children specially bred and selected for a special school that trains superb tacticians. Of the school's hundreds of students he is the brightest. The story reflects his struggles with the school's harsh learning conditions, the interactions with admiring and envious peers, and his anguish at knowing his strategic skills will one day be used to attempt to genocide an alien race of invaders. The characters are very believable and the storyline is engrossing.
Unfortunately, my criticisms require SPOILING the story. If you intend to read the book, don't go any further. I have two criticisms of the story elements. First, I found it difficult to accept that all of Ender's brilliant tactics had never been tried before. Surely an eighty-year school with hundreds of specially raised geniuses would have produced a great number of students able to innovate. I'm certain I could never have devised all of Ender's battle tactics on my own, but I may have been able to invent one or two. I refuse to believe that none of the other students had similar ideas.
Second, the use of a queen creature as the ultimate leader and secret weakness of the enemy is a weak plot element. There is a multitude of shows, books, and games that use this idea: the enemy force as a whole is super powerful, except for one central command creature/computer/ship. Destroy that, and you win. This done-to-death plot technique really disappointed me. If I could, I would give it 3.5 stars
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Summary: Ender's Game is an incredable book
Review: I have to say that I loved this book, it was very in depth and well written. I have read several of Card's books and I have loved them all, though I do believe I liked Ender's Game the best. Ender is a very complex character that once you read through the book, you can't help but feel sorry for him and a little freaked out. The way Ender does things is to win in one fight, he doesn't draw it out, it just takes one. The things he does at his young age, in the book, are unbelievable. Card puts other sci-fi writers to shame with this book.
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