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Summary: It was great!
Review: I am in a High school Honers english class and we read this book for one of our novels and it was absolutly great. We disscussed it in great detail but there was always more to say instead of less wich is a wonderful comment in a book. I am excited to read his next books and will fallow him in his writing. I apologize for this hasty (unhoners) level writting but I have a great urge to read my book...Speaker for the Dead.
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Summary: On a rating of 1-5, a 6
Review: Ender's Game is the best book I have ever read. To give it 5 stars is not adequate. The average is 4.5 because a few people gave it 4 or <gasp> lower. Almost everyone gave it a 5. Ender Wiggin is a child genius. The government has put a moniter on Ender to see if he can go Battle School. The moniter comes off, and he goes to Battle School. There he does better then anyone else, and is promoted quickly. OSC does a great job of creating the character, and you grow to love Ender. After reading Ender's Game, read Speaker for the Dead (sequel). It is an excellent book, and continues the story of Ender.
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Summary: A must read for sci-fi and non sci-fi fans alike!
Review: I started reading this book yesterday and finnished it that night (actually it would be called this morning because it took me untell 2:00 AM). While the authors discriptions can sometimes leave something to be desiered, the way he understands how the human mind works makes this one of the best, if not the best, book I have ever read. I urge you to buy this book
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Summary: Some people just don't get it.
Review: I don't know what some people were thinking when they read this book because it is quite possibly THE greatest book ever published. Some people are complaining about the lack of detail of the lack of detail, the ease of reading and other such stupid things. Card apprached that book in a humanistic way which, I believe, has never been rivaled. The people complaining about are either substandard in intelligence or just plain stupid (so they can understand what I called them). Card never wanted Ender's Game to be cryptic or to be only understood by astrophysists, he meant for it to be accessable for all readers. He didn't concentrate on the science for a reason-he isn't a scientist and wasn't going to pretend to be. So all of you who think it's stupid because it is easily readable curl up with your Xerox manual, but for all of you who have been left out for being smarter than the others, read this book because you will understand it.
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Summary: This book will chage your view of life.
Review: it's impossible to describe the magnificent wrting style and storyline presented in Enders Game. But i can assure you one thing. it will change your life. i began reading the book and stayed up until three am reading everynight until i finished it. it is a powerful writing that will still be atracting readers of every age for milennia to come.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is, in my opinion, a fantastic book. It is very well written, and it presents a great plot. It does, however, have a few downsides to it. In this essay you will read about the good and bad aspects of this book. I have several arguments saying that Ender's Game is a good book. One of these is that Ender is a strong, well-portrayed character. He has many sides to him. He loves his sister, hates his brother, is a military genius, and is the youngest of the launchies (new recruits or students at Battle School) to be promoted to an army. His teachers feign favoring Ender in order to isolate him by making the other boys dislike him. Ender is forced to prove himself time and again, and is finally accepted into the group. When the teachers see that he has been accepted, they put him in an army to further isolate him and make him prove himself yet again. They are trying to teach him that no one will help him. P68-69: 'Alai looked up at him. "Don't you know? This was on your bed. You must have sat on it." Ender took it from him. ENDER WIGGINS ASSIGNED SALAMANDER ARMY COMMANDER BONZO MADRID EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY CODE GREEN GREEN BROWN NO POSSESSIONS TRANSFERRED Ender shook his head. It was the stupidest thing he could think of, to promote him now. Nobody got promoted before they were eight years old. Ender wasn't even seven yet. Just when things were finally coming together. Just when his life was finally getting livable. "I don't want to go," he said. "I understand them, Ender. [said Alai.] You are the best of us. Maybe they in a hurry to teach you everything." "They don't want to teach me everything," Ender said. "I wanted to learn what it was like to have a friend." ' Though this book may be truly enthralling, there are some downsides to it. I do not like the fact that Ender killed two boys in physical fights. He was standing up for himself, I know, but I think that just having the boys hospitalized would have been enough. Also, at one point in the book, Ender becomes indifferent to everything because the people at the school have pushed him so hard. Though this indifference works well with the story, I do not think that indifference works with "Ender" half as well as peanut butter goes with jelly, or milk with cookies. Basically, though this is a great book, there are some parts that I did not like as well as others. Another strong aspect of Ender's Game is the games. There are many of them, but the main one is then one that the armies play. The children at Battle School are all obsessed with it. The game what they all strive to be the best in. Some children, like Ender's friend, Dink Meeker, have their own opinions about the enemy in the games are. P107-108: ' "These other armies, they aren't the enemy. It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. The game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing. We kill ourselves, go crazy trying to beat each other, and all the time the old bastards are watching us, studying us, discovering our weak points, deciding whether we're good enough or not. Well, good enough for what? I was six years old when they brought me here. What the hell did I know? They decided I was right for the program, but nobody ever asked if the program was right for me." "So why don't you go home?" [Ender asked.] Dink smiled crookedly. "Because I can't give up the game. Because I love this." P111: 'But Ender could not stop thinking about what Dink had said. The Battle School was so enclosed, the game so important in the minds of the children, that Ender had forgotten there was a world outside.' The game is a battle between two armies. In the battle, the armies use guns that freeze the opponent's joint(s) or, if they are hit correctly, their whole body. In the battle room, there are some obstacles, stars (p89: 'Huge brown boxes were suspended in midair, partially obstructing the view. So these were the obstacles that soldiers called stars. They were distributed seemingly at random. ). There is no gravity in the battle rooms, so whichever way you are facing is up for you. The way to win is to completely disable the other army, and then have at least five soldiers who are completely unfrozen left. This book was written in a way that things never got boring. All the time there were new twists, turns, and rules being added. There was character growth, action, and real feelings involved. Feelings of hate, love, and sorrow spilling out from Ender, his friends, and his enemies. This is a book of excitement, disappointment, anger, fear, strategy, and games---Ender's games.
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Summary: One of the Best Books Ever
Review: I'm not a very big fan of sicence fiction but this book was outstanding! The ending was hidden so well, you couldn't even to begin what was going to happen. There's a whole "Ender" series. Ender's Game is the first; next is Speaker for the Dead; third is Xeonicide; fourth is Children of the Mind; and a new one Ender's Shadow. I plan on reading all of these and if you read or plan to read Ender's Game, don't stop there.
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Summary: Would be mediocre if only...
Review: ... you ignore what Card says makes a good leader. Ignorance, mindless aggression, never learning to deal with any challenges, being genetically superior to everyone else and being immune from any responsibility for your actions. Hmmm, a messianic, child Hitler figure is the hero and this is ignored by all those 5-star reviews? I'll ignore the reviewer's debate on what a 6 year old Napolean's behavior would be because who can really know. I'll ignore the predictable ending plot twist and the lack of any real conflict or character development because perhaps this was meant for grade school readers who like simple, easy to read books. What I can't ignore is that the basic point of the book, reflected in the actions and thoughts of all the major characters, that power and brutality are noble and honorable if you are born to them. As a summary, the plot says that it must be cool to be an amoral, semi-divine being. Somehow I don't agree.
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Summary: Don't miss this one
Review: When it comes to novels, I'm a big fan of science fiction. I'm an avid reader, and this is definitely one of the best books I have ever read. I've read it twice so far, and will probably read it again when I finish reading the parallel novel "Ender's Shadow." Superior storytelling.
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Summary: Ender's Game looked at by Mike Loniewski
Review: I have recently had the treat of reading "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card. There is a debate that has been going on for some time about the "literary merit" of science fiction novels. Or I should say lack there of. According to Mrs. Harris, and several of her online contacts (fellow AP English Teachers), "Ender's Game is one of the few that could be considered to have this "merit." I agree whole-heartedly. This book is by far the best book I have ever read. It follows through the childhood of a young boy named Andrew "Ender" Wiggan. He is faced with many seemingly unwinnable situations, and is isolated throughout the novel, all because he is the only hope to save man-kind from an expected bugger invasion. He can't be dependant on anyone or anything except himself if he is to be Earth's only hope. The buggers have attacked Earth twice already, and the world fears a third attack. They will do anything to stop the invasion, even sacrifce this young boys childhood, and possibly his humanity. The main character, Ender, is such a deep character, that you end up really caring about what happens to him, and what he might be faced with next. When the novel starts, Ender is 6 yrs old, and has finally been chosen to go to battle school, where his training to become the savior of the human race will begin. The story follows him through his trials there, and into command school. There is a very memorable cast of characters that support and oppose Ender throughout the novel. Most of them are boys from the age of 6 to 16, and really gets you thinking about what childhood should really be like. The ending to this riveting novel is all that can be expected from a great book, and really answers all of the questions posed in the novel. All in all, I felt bad after I was finished reading the book, and was sorry I had to put it down. Read this one if you find the time.
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