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Summary: Entertaining
Review: I'll keep this short. Ender's Game is a very entertaining and suspenseful book. It is a lot of fun to read, and I recomend it if you're looking for an entertaining book to read, but if you're conserned with the quality of the word by word writing, things like very artistic speach, then this is not a book for you. It is not meant to be annylized. It does raise some interesting philosophical questions, but mainly it's good for pleasure reading.
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Summary: Juvenile nonsense
Review: Buy it for your adolescent kid if you must, and just hope he doesnt throw it in your face for insulting his intelligence.
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Summary: This is to the reviewer listed below...
Review: A Book For Dumb Teenagers May 17, 2000 Reviewer: A reader from USA Sir you point out all these errors in the book, but have you ever thought to yourself, hmm... this is science FICTION! If your so smart dummy why do you read your "dumb tennager's" book? You're also insulting your own daughter and myself as well. I happen to write science fiction stories, I've been published at 13! and for 9th grade I have to read this book. It sounds enjoyable to me, and until you spend many, many hours writing a book, i suggest you stop insulting other people's work!
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Summary: Extraordinary Ender
Review: I really don't like science ficiton books on the whole. In fact, I dislike the entire science fiction genre, but Ender's Game is a diamond in the rough, boring, sad world of sci-fi. Card has an amazing way of writing science fiction books that center around the characters rather than the techology--something all sci-fi writers should learn from and use. Ender's Game doesn't focus on spaceships, computers, or robots; it focus's on Ender, a young boy faced with impossible choices and devastating situations, as well as wonderful experiences. Ender's Game is sure to touch the heart of any reader, no matter what age, and remind us all of what is and isn't important in life. Also--if you like Ender's Game, read Ender's Shadow (the story of Bean).
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Summary: Worth a look
Review: This book is quite good. Dealing with a war against an alien race, mankind is forced to desperate measures in order to win a war against them. Using children that show the necessary potential to fight the war, they are trained at a very early age in simulated combat, the hope being that one of them has what it takes to lead Earth's space fleets against the enemy. It is an interesting book, especially the description of the games in the Battleroom that the children have to fight as part of their training (a form of futuristic laser tag) as a prelude to remotely controlling spaceships. Deception is rife, as not surprisingly at every level, people are not totally honest about what is really going on. The ultimate irony may be, as what seems to be a fight for survival may have more to do with a lack of understanding on both sides that comes far too late and that the war may not have been needed in the first place. Much like real life. Well worth a look, though in my opinion, the parts dealing with the training are the best parts of the book.
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Summary: Ender's Game: Ranks among classics
Review: My resolution this New Years was to read the classics, the great novels that everyone ought to read once in their lifetimes. Along with Shakespeare and Dickens, I started to read ask my friends what their personal favorites were, and read them as well. The name 'Enders Game' came as a suggestion from one of my friends, and I reluctantly agreed, expecting yet another unrealistic and mediocre sci-fi epic, drenched in spaceships and overplayed heroism. I was amazed to realize that this novel was actually one of the most engrossing and well-written of all of the books I had recently read. Card's clear, concise and descriptive writing tone made the story believable and fast-paced. I above all commend him for not patronizing children. All too often their ideas, quite occasionally as clever and intellegent as adults, are swept aside and discarded purely for the reason that the person was below a certain age. This was truly a remarkable book, and I urge everyone to read it.
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Summary: The bomb
Review: If anyone thinks that this is not the best Sci-Fi book every written, they are not human. This book has everything, action, adventure, and mystery, all compacted into one book.
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Summary: A Book For Dumb Teenagers
Review: At the risk of offending almost everybody in this review group, I'm simply going to highlight some SCIENTIFIC problems with this worthless novel. (1) Instantaneous communication. The "philotic parallax instantaneous communicator" - "they can talk to each other even when they're across the galaxy. And the buggers can do it without machines." The problem here, ladies and gentlemen, is action at a distance. As some of you may know (they teach this in high school) action at a distance does not exist. There is a finite, maximum velocity for the transfer of information in the real world. It's called the speed of light. This is the whole point of special relativity. I might add that by bringing Mazer Rackham back as a twin-paradox (sending him out at relativistic velocities so that the world aged 50 years but he only aged eight) Card implies that he accepts special relativity. But you can't have it both ways. Either you have special relativity or you have instantaneous communication, but not both in the same novel. (2) Artificial gravity - "It could not land directly because Eros had enhanced gravity." Ladies and gentlemen, one cannot "enhance" gravity. As some of you may know, general relativity explains gravity in terms of non-Euclidean geometry. One can no more "enhance" gravity than alter the truth of the Pythagorean theorem. By the way, check out the real Eros on the internet. Look up "NEAR". Eros was an unfortunate choice of asteroids for Card. The real Eros is now viewable by satelite. He got the shape wrong! (3) Dr. Device - "At the focal point of two beams, it sets up a field in which molecules can't hold together anymore. Electrons can't be shared . . . Then the field dies down, the molecules come back together, and where you had a ship, you now have a lump of dirt with a lot of iron molecules in it. No radioactivity." Excuse me? The "beams" create a "field" that disrupts matter at the level of electrons . . . then matter reassembles and you get, not hydrogen and helium, but "dirt" and "iron", without radiation? Ladies and gentlemen, this contradicts the second law of thermodynamics, the laws of chemistry, and the laws of quantum mechanics all at the same time. (4) Eugenics. Ender is the product of a genetic experiment; his brother and sister are smart too. Ladies and gentlemen, eugenics is a discredited science. The most famous twentieth-century proponent of eugenics, Adolph Hitler, murdered six million people and committed suicide. That should tell you something. Think about it. By the way, isn't this whole book a rip off of the ideas of Robert A. Heinlein and A.E. Van Vogt? . . . . . Interested readers may wonder why I took the time to write a diatribe against a children's book. I love science fiction, and there are so many good books out there, but this is not one of them . . . This book was required reading for my 14-year-old daughter who was about to enter ninth grade. I object to this. It sets a bad precedent. Encouraging wishful thinking in children is not what education is all about. I can't believe that her English teachers selected this book out of all of the millions of books in the world's literature. Sloppy wishful magical adolescent thinking epitomized. A book for dumb teenagers. Good Grief!
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Summary: ENDER'S GAME
Review: Ender's Game is a breathtaking novel by my favorite auther, Orson Scott Card. This book is amazing, always keeping you on adge. I think this is how all books should be. Orson Scott Card is an amazing writer, and I highly reccomend this book to readers of all ages, whatever your favorite ganra is.
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Summary: Not a classic
Review: Like others, I sought out 'Ender's Game' due to the fact that it won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Apparently like some others, I too was a bit disappointed that the book didn't fully live up to all my expectations. Certainly it was an interesting page turner, but problems remain. I found the lack of description a bit hampering, almost as if the book is written for a 5th grade level, ie. he did this, she did that, etc... I did sympathize with Ender however, and his saga was consistently entertaining if not enthralling. For better and more in depth sci-fi, I'd suggest seeking out Stephenson, Dan Simmons, and William Gibson to name a few. Of course I just picked up 'Speaker', so obviously there is something going here...
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