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Summary: Journey to a time
Review: Journey to a time where Earth is corrupt,where small boys are sent into the military at the early age of 7, and told nothing of the truth. Human's, paranoid in fear of a huge alien race have disbanded themselves once again and split off into smaller factionns. In this excciting scifi thriller, card takes us deep into the bowels of spaace and back out again. Wonderfully descriptive and good for any rainy day.
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Summary: Wonderful addictive (science) fiction
Review: Once I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down. What more can you ask from a book? The story of Ender and the games he is forced to play is fascinating. Earth in the future has been nearly destroyed by hostile aliens, and human beings are in a race to find the perfect general who will save them from the third invasion. Ender is a child genius who is snatched up at the tender age of six and enrolled in an ultra-compeditive military academy where the primary education is through zero-gravity tactical combat. Is he earth's savior?What makes this novel so great is the author's frequent insights into the souls of his characters, and how any philosophy or moral arguments the author might have are presented through action and conflict instead of lengthy dialog (except for a few boring scenes between Ender's bright siblings). Author Orsen Scott Card manages to make Ender convincing as a super genius by writing him as a six year old with adult intelligence (however, this "cheating" will catch up with Card in the next books). The ending is anticlimaxic, and the science is downright laughable - if humans almost got wiped out 60 years ago, why is Earth overpopulated?!? At best this is fantasy writing in a futuristic setting. Still, what sets in my mind is the meat of the book, those fascinating zero-gravity games where Ender matches wits with the best time and time again. Check this book out, it is worth the read.
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Summary: it was a good book!
Review: In Ender's Game, Ender is taken from his home to a military base in space where he learns to become a soldier. He learns how to become friends with other soldiers and become a leader. Ender and his fellow soldiers help each other. The Comander makes Ender a leader of his own patrol. Ender and his patrol play training games and simulation game. In the simulation game, Ender and his patrol fight aliens and try to kill them so they take over the aliens home planet. In the end, Ender finds out that he has been tricked and has really killed the aliens. After the war, Ender see's his family and his sister writes a book about him and he won the war.
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Summary: End Game! Ender Wins! Play Again?
Review: Ender is a genious and, in my opinon, a saviour to planet Earth, but he doesn't know either of these. The book has a difficult challenge of balence and rightness. Mess with a boy who could save Earth from aleins, or would that be injust. I think in the end it's evened out to say, "Okay, ether we all die, including the boy, or toughen him up so he can save us all." But why fight? Is it just out of fear that if you don't destroy them, they'll destroy you? If you isolate the boy too long or too short will he break down? It's a delacate balace with a surprise ending that makes this book impossible to put down.
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Summary: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Review: Battle combat in zero gravity. Saving the world from alien extermination. To many these may start to sound like some sort of Star Wars rendition of The Matrix, but when the hero of the story is merely seven years old, things take a more interesting twist. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game follows the life of innocent Ender, barely out of toddler-hood, who is recruited into the military in order to train for combat against a force of ant-like aliens known as the Buggers. At an early young age, Ender is thrown into a school of other children like him whose training consists of strategic battle combat and survival. Immersed in an intense world full of deception, jealousies, and competition, it no longer becomes clear who is the real enemy, and Ender's only chance of survival is to strive to be the best. The book, winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, does not have the same level of complicated terminology or background common in science fiction novels that only confuses readers; instead Card used simplistic, straightforward narration to follow the dramatic trials that Ender must endure in order to remain alive. The actions and interactions between characters are realistically portrayed, leaving readers completely involved in the complex relationships so true to human nature. This book, a must-read, is a classic that is soon to appear on the silver screen. And Ender's adventures do not end there; Ender's Game becomes the first book in an extremely successful series of 7 novels by Card that remains one of the best loved in America, ensuring an entire summer of stimulating reading.
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Summary: This book is awesome!! (J.T.Hansen)
Review: I really loved this book! If you read this book I definitely suggest you read Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Orson Scott Card is definitely my all-time favorite author. While I read this book, I really got to know Ender. I felt like I had known him my whole life. He conveyed his characters feelings very well, all of them. The only thing I didn't like about this book was the chapter entiltled Locke and Demosthenes(I don't remember what chapter number it was). The second time I read the book I just skipped the chapter. Almost the whole chapter is just boring talking between Peter and Valentine. That is my least favorite part of the book. I also didn't like the part where Ender is back on Earth and Valentine visits him and they talk for almost the whole chapter. It gets fairly boring but it's not nearly as bad as Locke and Demosthenes. FOr all of the chapters where Ender is at the Battle School and Command School, it is a very exciting book. One thing I wish Orson Scott Card did would have been to go into more detail durung the battles is the Battle Room. I haven't read Ender's Shadow yet but I'm hoping he uses more detail in that book. My favorite part in the whole book is when Ender goes commander at age nine and he is training his completely green army for the first time. I have also read Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker books and those are also very good books. All in all, I say if your thinking about reading Ender's Game, read it!
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Summary: GO Ender!!
Review: Ender Wiggins was the character that could attract any child to want to live his life. As he housed the skills of strength and smarts to save the earth he became an automatic superhero that you had to root for. I feel this book should be on the list for younger students everywhere. It is a novel that could attract so many students to a world of reading for fun. By Ender being this military genious, takes us into a world of imagination that we can't get enough of.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Ender's Game is one of the best books I've read. I started reading for school and finished it the next day. Ender's search to be acepted leads him through all sorts of predicaments and is a hero in the end
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Summary: I liked this book!!!!!!
Review: I liked the book, it was interesting. At times it was kind of boring at times, but than sometimes I could not put the book down because I could not wait to find out what would happen. The best part I thought was when he outsmarted the teachers and knew what they were doing. (Well, most of what they were doing) I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read and has imagination and likes kids. I hope that everyone gets the chance to read this book. At first glance you think you don't want to read that book it is too long. But once you get into it, you are happy that you chose to read the book. Jackie
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Summary: Especially or anyone between 10 and 16...
Review: Some nights after a rough day in junior high, I would just pull this battered paperback off my shelf and read it cover-to-cover again in one sitting. It's one of those few great books that combines wisdom, action, and real depth, but is immediately accessible to young people (I first read it in 4th grade). If you have a nephew, cousin, or son (boys seem to relate to the book much better than girls do), particularly one who takes lots of those "gifted" classes, this may very well be the perfect birthday present...
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