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Ender's Game (Fantastic Audio)

Ender's Game (Fantastic Audio)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ender's Game, One of the best books I've read
Review: Ender's Game was the first book of Orson Scott Card i read. I loved the book. I finished it in two days. Once you start reading, you can't stop at the end of a chapter. The story focuses on you child, Ender Wiggin. Ender is adopted into the Battle School, where he is trained to save the Earth from an alien species called the Buggers. it is an excellent book to read. Finished the series and want to read more good Orson Scott Card books??? The Homecoming Series is very good, I have also read that series. Ender's Game (and the rest of the series) is an excellent book and one of Card's best.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best
Review: This is my absolute favorite book. Never before have I been able to recommend a book to all my friends and also have them all thoroughly enjoy it as much as I did. I adore books and reading altogether, but Ender's Game is the best book I have EVER read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What a great beginning
Review: Wow, this power novel is a great beginning to the Ender series. Leaving the end open Card leaves room for a sequel which is just as good. Although I am only about to start the fourth of the six in the series, Enders Game couldn't have been a better beginning. It's such a great book that I couldn't put it down even for dinner. I stayed up until 4 in the morning just so that I could finish it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very impresive
Review: Recently, I went on vacation. My close friend asked to borrow a book of mine and in return, he shoved his battered copy of Ender's game into my hand. I shoved it into my suitcase.

I hate science fiction! I have read hundreds of books and can count on one hand how many were science fiction. But a funny thing happened on my trip. I finished the two books I had with me..uh-oh. So I rummaged through my suitcase and dug out this book.

This book is about a young boy, Ender Wiggin, who is a genious, a frowned upon "third", or a third child, in a society where NO ONE has three children. He goes off to military school and is destined to become a great miliary leader in the war against the "buggers", a harsh alien race. He is pulled away from his family, his hated brother and loved sister.

This book was absolutely absorbing. I read the whole thing in two days, pretty good for me, who scrutinized books and reads them many times.

I highly recommend this book to people of all ages who need to escape the real world and meet ender and his feirce group of first grade friends, and read all about their accomplishments.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome!
Review: Orson Scott Card did a wonderful job writing this book. I finished it in under two days, because I couldn't put it down! It has a great plot, that is even more enhanced by Cards writing ability, and will keep you hooked until you get to the shocking ending. Once you've read it you'll want to go back and read it again, to look for hints Card drops throughout the book about the outcome of the Bugger Wars. A very good book that I would recomend to anyone of any age.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A GREAT read for the teen crowd.
Review: This is probably the oldest book in existence that's actually popular among teenagers. And there's little wonder as to why.

It incorporates nicely a light, action filled sci-fi plot with equally lean elements of psychology. All the elements that made The Matrix a teenage hit.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Favorite Book of All Time
Review: I checked this book out from my school library because in my school, you have to check out one book, or else. So I grabbed it, remembering that someone said we would read it in high school, and read it. It was so incredibly good. I actually _cried_ at the end, Ender's victory was so gorgeous. It inspired me, something that usually doesn't happen from a book, to write a book, one of my favorite hobbies. This book is extremely good, and the end is so suprising, and Ender's Shadow is good too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of my top 5 books ever read
Review: Absolutely and far away an excellent book. The first time (of many!) I read this book, I was absolutely astonished. I haven't really liked that much most of the sequels, but you also have to read Ender's Shadow.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must read...
Review: Not very often does a book come across my path that knocks me off my feet, but Ender's Game sent me into a tailspin. I have read books of every genre, and scoured the earth for the holy grail of literature, and this book stands out as the elite book. I cannot get the hauting images of this book out of my mind. I dare say it's better than the Beatles who are better than Jesus. Hail to you Orson Scott Card.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very fast paced, and intense! You can't put this book down!
Review:
The background of the storyline is of a young boy, one of a large group, bred to be supergeniuses as Earth's last desperate attempt to find a military genius that can defeat an alien race that we are in an interstellar war with. Hundreds of planets and billions of humans have been lost and only Earth and a handful of planets remain.

This is where Ender's story begins.

Ender is sent into training doing battle simulation after battle simulation, against ever increasing, nearly impossible odds. Ender keeps finding ways to win the battles, but what makes the book impossible to put down is that the military officers in charge of Ender's training do everything in their power to socially isolate Ender from the other boys in the academy. And to top it all off they add the pyschological pressure of letting Ender know that time has ran out - Ender is humanity's last hope. There isn't time to find another child prodigy and train him - humanity has only a few precious months to finish training Ender and his fellow students and then the final battle will be waged to determine if humanity survives.


SIDE NOTE: Just to let you know how good this book is, I had a girlfriend that hadn't read more than 10 books of personal reading in her life when I met her. Over Christmas break from college, I told her that she should start reading Ender's Game, since she said she would as soon as Fall Quarter ended. She said that she just wanted to relax that evening and not have to do anything. Since I had found that no one can read the first 40 pages of this book and put it down, I turned off the tv and read the first 40 pages of the book to her. I then announced that I was going to bed and left the book on the coffee table in front of her.
I woke up the next morning to find her asleep on the couch with Ender's game in her lap. When she awoke, she had VERY RED eyes, and was upset that she couldn't ignore the book and stayed up until around 5 AM until she collapsed from exhaustion. She said that she was irritated that she wouldn't get any sleep that night either because she had to finish reading the book!


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