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Summary: More "Fi" than "Sci"
Review: Pity poor Ender Wiggin, the boy who would be mankind's savior. Isolated by destiny and his teachers, forced to study and learn the art of war instead of playing the games of childhood, bearing the hopes of mankind on the slight shoulders of his youth; this is Ender's fate.
Despite odds that make David versus Goliath look like a pick 'em fight, Ender not only survives, but thrives. The Battle Room becomes his sanctuary, enemies become friends, teachers become students. Destroying the Buggers and ending the threat to Earth occupy everything Ender does, and he finds himself thinking like them, even identifying with them.
Can Ender kill the Buggers? Save mankind? Save himself? In this wonderful example of the writer's craft, Orson Scott Card draws you in, makes you feel Ender's emotional rollercoaster, and delivers a blockbuster look into the very core of the human psyche.
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Summary: Fantasy at it's Best!
Review: I've never been captured by a book before. However this book grabbed my imagination and took me into Ender's world. I felt his pain, his agony, his confusion and a part of his genuis. I was apart of Ender, and Ender was a part of me. When you find yourself in the world of imagination and everything seems so real, yet the only passage way to that world is the book that you are reading, then you know that it is a very good book. Orson Scott Card's book entitled Ender's Game, was a passage for me into my world of imagination. It is a very good book.
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Summary: A Precocious Predicament
Review: What Earth needs, is a hero. A genius hero, and fast. How is a genius created, and be made a hero against one's will? To save the Earth, must a genius be taught, and desire to kill? Mustn't a hero empathize with the enemy, to know them better than they know themselves? What if the enemy can do the same? What must be done to unlock superior potential?In a future military state worldwide, Andrew Wiggin was unorthodoxly authorized to improve upon his siblings' best qualities. He was breed to have his brother Peter's intelligence and cunning and his sister Valentine's manner and instinct. Ender, as he calls himself, is a genius among geniuses, which is why he is chosen for the elite Battle School training. Having been antagonized by others, especially Peter, all through his life, Ender would have gladly left Earth for the Battle School; if not for the reciprocal love of Valentine. At the school, Ender is purposely thrown against one adversary situation after another, thoroughly defeating each one. The school has studies of the art of war, but most importantly, it has the Battle Rooms: 0-G combat simulators. For the purpose of interstellar war and challenge of Ender's abilities, he is advanced through training and the school itself all too quickly. In doing so, has lost his soul? In the mean time, Peter and Valentine may destroy what Ender is trying to protect. Now the human race rests upon the shoulders of a pre-adolescent, whether Ender knows it or not. Ender's Game is a cerebral infusion of the tortured, grown up mind of Ender. He is constantly manipulated, which brings out many different things in him, and the reader, every time. Indifference, anger, resolve, respect, remorse, guilt, and sometimes joy. Ender's Game (paperback author's definite edition) is not like the Sci-fi genre, but a plunge into the motive and conscience of a deep protagonist. This book rests on the empathy of the reader to accept volatile minds in children. Unfortunately, if you immerse yourself too far (as it's very possible) into the characters, some of the intended, unpredictable shocks may be deadened. The introduction gives much insight into the author. This book is great for all readers and those looking for something new; although the following series requires adroit interest in all aspects of the novel. Ender's Game is definitely worth enjoying.
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. I think everyone should read it, especialy people who love science fiction. The first couple chapters are kind of boring, but it gets better later in the book. Take the time to read this book it's very good.
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Summary: Wiggin out over how good it is.
Review: I hesitated reading this book for YEARS because I had already read the short story, and figured that knowing the ending would ruin the book, but Scott Card has made the story much more robust and added many subplots that weren't there in the original. Plus the added little twist at the end that makes you question your impression of the aliens. I found it thorougly enjoyable and look forward to Speaker For the Dead.
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Summary: Harry Potter meets the Starship Troopers!
Review: This book rocks! Ender is a small boy who is picked on by a bigger brother and some students in his school. He is quite the genious and it is obvious that he has great potential. He is being observed by the military to see if he is a good candidate to become an army commander and fight a war against an alien race of bugs. The training he goes through is intense and exciting to read. It involves a bunch of games that teach him military strategy as he must earn the respect of others in his school and proove that he is a great leader. There is a lot of cleverness in the way these games are played. This must be one of the greatest science fiction books ever written.
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Summary: Hated it
Review: I know everyone seems to love this book, but I hated it! It isn't "science" fiction (like A.C. Clark books), but fiction. I could not suspend my belief THAT much to appreciate what the pre-pubescent main character could do. Perhaps I'm too old (30?). I think this book appeals to pre-high school kids, but it did nothing for me.
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Summary: Ender's Game is a classic of Sci-Fi
Review: The plot is seemingly simple: Boy Genius saves Earth. The telling of the story is what makes this book so extraordinary. The world and characters created by Card are original and believable. The Battle School, a low and null-gravity space station where students who are potential military leaders are trained, is fascinating, not only for the war game played by the students, but for the psychological interaction of the students with each other and with the teachers. Ender, the hero of the book, will appeal to anybody who suffered through bullies at school. He is also a sympathetic, intelligent person upon whom a lot is laden. We follow Ender through his training and development as a leader. The ending has a neat twist, and even more wonderful, the new parallel novels Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon are worthy companion books. (There are two earlier follow-up novels, good, but not on the same theme as Ender's Game. These are Children of the Mind and Speaker for the Dead.) If you like military history, war games like Age of Kings, science fiction or stories of "coming of age", you will probably enjoy Ender's Game. It is on my top 10 Sci-Fi novels list.
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Summary: N/A
Review: I recommend this book and it's sequels in the Ender Quartet. These books are a tribute to a truly great author, Orson Scott Card.
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Summary: Deeply compelling, a great science fiction!
Review: This book was reccomended to me by a close friend of mine and highly trusted personal book critic. Upon finishing several chapters of the book, every bit of possitive commontary she supplied me with was confirmed. What an excellent read! The twists and turns of this pathos-inspiring novel keep one interested, and the well developed characters hardly seem works of fiction. The action and suspense picks up immediately in the first chapter. Words of advice: Do not read if you need sleep, for you will not be able to put this one down!
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