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Ender's Game (Fantastic Audio)

Ender's Game (Fantastic Audio)

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Ender FAN!
Review: Hey I know that there are THOUSANDS of reviews out there but I just had to sy hat this was my most FAV. Book i have ever read. I would recommend it to ANYONE(cept my english teacher he hates good book) im about to buy then enders shadow book and read it... I loved this book i was hooked from page 1 - 2?? whatever it was...i hate reading but i LOVED this one... i normally take weeks(even months to read a book) but i read this one in 3 days. Well cyall....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Solid Book with an Interesting Perspective
Review: This book, about a future war between Earth and a buglike race from another planet, is really more about human alienation, the perils of youth, and the strain of competition and command. Ender (Andrew) Wiggins, a young genius, is set out to train for combat and leadership in this war to end all wars. His life away from home and the sister he loves is lonely, but he endures it as he goes through rigorous training intentionally designed to isolate and alienate him from those around him even as it prepares him for command of the human fleet and its fight for survival. I guess we have all gone through periods of depression and loneliness, Ender's case is just more aggravated because parts of it are deliberately imposed by the command structure at school. He survives and thrives, after a fashion and he does pay a price.

This internal struggle doesn't take away from the battlescenes in this book, which are easy to follow, built well, and capture our interest. The politics and internal battles, the battleroom training simulator, and Card's vision of the future are all also compelling. If you want to read this book, on that level, you will enjoy it. But if you take you time and enjoy this book on all it levels, you will have a true treat. Ender's Game is a serious work of literature and well as a very good book. A treat on every level.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classic
Review: If you have ANY taste for science fiction, do yourself a favor and buy this book. Stories this good dont come around often enough. Card put himself squarely among the greats when he produced this masterpiece.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I loved this book more then anything i've ever read before!
Review: Well, let me just say that i am 16 years old and in grade 11 Last year in my english class, we were givin Ender's Game to read for class, and I looked at it and though "What the hell is this?? Sci-Fi?? I only read love stories, that's it!". But then i began to read it... and i couldn't put it down. This book was an amazing novel, i have read every other book in the series [Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide, & Children of the Mind] and the comparative novel [Ender's Shadow] and i am greatly looking forward to the new comparative novel being realeased on January 2, 2001, The Hegemon. I am as well looking forward to the movie which has not yet been picked up by directors yet I am sincerly hoping it does soon.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Masterpiece From Beginning to End!
Review: This book has shown that the Science-Fiction genre walks hand-in-hand with the fantasy genre. I have found that this book was perhaps one of the best books ever written by any writer. From the first page I was hooked, observing the majestic use of real-life feeling characters and their real-life emotions. Few people have ever captured this in the way that Orson Scott Card has. And because this was simply book one of the saga, I have found that it hooked me in to the next two books after it, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide. I have not known a book to be so vivid and grand, in detail and scale. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a good read. -Reviewed by: ProfessionalFantasyNovelist1

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Just Okay
Review: In retrospect, this was a good story due to the superior last two chapters. The first thirteen chapters barely kept my interest. Through out those chapters, I found it very hard to relate to a bunch of seven and eight-year-olds who had the responsibility and intellect of grown men. I was also disturbed by what almost seemed like a deep seeded sexual interest between Ender and his sister. In the end, I almost didn't want to enjoy the last seventy pages because by that time I had so much resentment for the book--but those pages were just so good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Intense !!!
Review: Since there are already over 1100 reviews of this book (probably all extremely positive) I will only add a few very personal comments here rather than write a more general review.

There is only one word for this story--intense. From almost page 1 until the end of the book over 200 pages later you are in 100% total immersion in one of the most suspenseful sci-fi books ever written. I have been a big reader of many of the major names in sci-fi, especially Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein, having read every book they've written, and rarely did their best stuff draw me in like this one did. In a class by itself. Don't miss it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Immpossible to hold onto
Review: I've given away countless copies. Ender is the perfect hero for anyone who was isolated as a child, simply for being smart. Witty and engaging, Card nails childhood, military schools, and sports. He then goes one step further and winds them into a wonderful story. A must read.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: War Games with a twist
Review: Endor's Game is one of the most famous works in the SF genre, and the most famous of all of Card's work. If you have ever read anything by Card and liked it, you will probably enjoy Endor's Game.

If you have not ever read a book by Orson Scott Card, or ambivalent about one that you read, you should be aware that "Ender's Game" is definitely a book suited for a young audience. This does not mean that it cannot be enjoyed by others, but children are very likely to enjoy it. The entire book, or most of it, is written in a third person perspective centered on Ender, the title character.

Ender is a young child who is quite precocious. He does very well at games and much of the book is a detailing of his experience at a training center. Then he is requisitioned to work in a special training program to help the humans against their alien aggressors.

The twist at the end is not hard to see coming if you look for that sort of thing. The imagery is quite good. No connoisier of SF has a complete background until he reads this novel.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Quick moving and engrossing
Review: Few books have captured my attention like ENDER'S GAME. Having somehow avoided reading this book for 16 years, I picked it up recently at lunch and finished it in one sitting. It's that good. Although some parts of the book seem a bit unnecessary and extraneous (i.e., the Demosthenes and Locke portions), and the big "surprise" ending isn't that big of a surprise (at least not to me), the book is extraordinarily well-written and quick moving. Anyone who is a big fan of "boot-camp" or other "hero-overcomes-horrible-childhood" books like Starship Troopers, Sten, or (a much, much weaker example) F.M. Busby's Bran and Rissa books will most likely enjoy reading this.

In all honesty, I fairly dread the sequels to this book, although I see little way that I can avoid reading them. I strongly expect them to be more in line with TOR Books' other offerings...generally shallow, pulp sci-fi.


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