Rating: Summary: WONDERFUL Review: Ender's Game is about a young boy trying to excel in the space army. The stroy line starts off right from the beginning with a bang. Everyone should read this book.
Rating: Summary: Awards are for a deeper book than it seems Review: Ender's Game and the three books following it in the Ender Quartet are a shining example of how a protaganist can overcome emotionally and mentally strenuous obstacles. Ender isn't the perfect being, nor is he loved by all, readers included. However, Ender and his peers prove that children are the pinnacle of the human race...no question. Ender, as he ages, encounters new obstacles that are more important than being trained in a battle school and "destroying" an alien race. This is Card's message: Trust in the younger generations and rely on your inner feelings. This is apparent in the three later books which are, in fact, quite better.
Rating: Summary: Start it on a Friday Review: Published almost fifteen years ago to critical acclaim, Ender's Game has clearly found a special place in the hearts and minds of science fiction readers all over the world. I buy this book as a gift for the new friends I make, as I grow older, and they always consider it a special gesture. The only thing more pleasurable than reading Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is giving a copy away to someone who hasn't yet read it. I titled this review "Start it on a Friday," because you probably won't be sleeping the night you begin reading it. If you don't have this book BUY it today, and you won't regret it, I promise you.
Rating: Summary: Best Book I've Ever Read Review: This is quite easily the best book I've ever read. The combination of an interesting look into an advanced civilization with the deeply philosophical undertones that Card adds is simply amazing. Having a degree in philosophy I often find that many books that have a philosophical element are shallow and not worth my attention but I love this book more than any other book I've ever read and every time I finish it I want to start climbing mountatins. It encourages you to go out there and face the world. A truly momentous and empowering work of art.
Rating: Summary: heart felt Review: as soon as i laid my hands on this book i knew in my heart it was a winner. As a teenager, i felt deeply moved by this book and the issues discussed in it. It was unpredictable, and adventurous with a perfect touch of ethic morals and contemplative material which is passed on in this novels sequals. This remains my favorite story of all time and i recommend it to people of all ages
Rating: Summary: Great beginning but even an astonishingly better end Review: Many had recommended me the reading of this book. Fortunately no one had told me anything about its contents. As I was reading the book I was becoming stuck to the story. However the best was still to come. How could I imagine that it was all to be sort it out as it is described? Naturally, after reading Ender's Game I couldn't help reading the rest of the saga (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind). I was not disappointed at all either. One could separate the first book (Ender's Game) from the rest but reading those other books not only adds more information about Ender's Game but also creates new worlds and stories which complete the whole four-books story.
Rating: Summary: Ender's Game- Still a classic after all these years Review: I've now bought Ender's Game 5 times, since I first read it years ago. Other copies have been permanently borrowed or lost in moves. I will always ensure I have a copy in my library.The story is timeless and pulls the reader in, as a young boy is taught and trained, in the name of Earth's defence and survival, to win at all cost and destroy an enemy; known as the 'Buggers'. Ender is separated from his family at an early age and brought to a battle school, located in a space station. His skills as a thinking warrior, who doesn't just win against an enemy, but destroys the enemy during an initial confrontation, is recognized by the International Fleet, and is cultavated through both battle games and personal isolation purposely caused by the instructors. Ender grows as a warrior and leader, but is internally conflicted as the pressures from the battle school weigh heavy on his psyche. He is a boy, expected to act as Julius Ceaser, Napoleaon and Alexander The Great. He loves and respects life, but knows he is expected to cause total genocide on earth's current enemy; the Buggers.
Rating: Summary: Holy cow this was a cool book! Review: Do you like action? Well I do, and when I read this book I was wondering what would happen from page to page. There were things you wouldn't expect. I felt almost like I was Ender. I can't wait to read Ender's Shadow..
Rating: Summary: Gotta luv it. Review: This book isa very entertaining novel. The last in the series makes no sense, but I connected with this novel in a great way. I reccommend this novel to everybody with an open mind, and an adventorous heart
Rating: Summary: this was so good. Review: Definitely in the top five books I've read. I won't give it away, of course, but the last few pages are the best.
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