Ender's Game

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Summary: A wonderful read with genuine significance
Review: I hadn't read the gushing reviews of Ender's Game when I initially picked the book up. Rather, I had seen it advertised at the local cinema on one of those advertisements that are flashed before the feature starts. I picked it up on a whim, wrongly assuming that it would be a cheap and fast thrill ride. Despite some questionable promotion tactics, the book deserves a place on the shelf of any action-loving reader who also desires a careful examination of an extremely compelling case of coming-of-age, isolation, and resignation of the human condition to surprising circumstances and irresistible powers.

Orson Scott Card convincingly delivers this case via Ender Wiggin, a genius child chosen and manipulated to become the saviour of a futuristic Earth from insectlike aliens. Even as Ender completes his military training at a dizzying rate, he grows to realize that not only is humanity's fate at stake, but so is his personal sanity, ethos, and connections to those he holds dear.

The book's ideas about human condition could have been presented in a non-Sci-Fi setting, but the fact that it is lends itself well to the almost inhuman nature of Ender's tragic ordeal. Through Ender's interactions with the memorable cast of supporting characters, the reader can immediately connect with and address the universal emotions people undergo - from stress, fatigue and shame, to excellence, camraderie and unconditional love. I read this story in about a day; unfortunately some of the only recreational fiction I have enjoyed in about a year. I can truthfully say that I believe it was a good move to purchase this book. It is intensely moving, and while may not necessarily be life-changing for its readers, Ender's Game is great enough that it can be.

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Summary: Greatest Sci-Fi book of all time. Hands down.
Review: This book is absolutely fantastic. It is such an incredible escape from reality, it is simply unreal! The plot is fantastic. The character development is fantastic. It is just an unbelievable book! I would recommend it to anyone that likes reading a good book. Looking forward to the movie!

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Summary: One of the best books of all time
Review: Ender's Game is one of the best books of all time, in my opinion. You need not be a sci-fi fan to love it, though it helps. It's a story of a young boy's genius, and the government's need for it, set against the prospect of impending alien invasion. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is a very good book. I had read it once as a child, and decided to read it again. I read it in one day, so obviously I enjoyed it. I have two qualms with it, though. I think a more in-depth description of the buggers should have been supplied, as well as more history of the bugger wars. And i also felt that the end was fairly anti-climactic. Aside from that, it was a great book.

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Summary: Enders Game
Review: Readers, Enders game is the best book ive ever read. I usually dont read books, infact if I do read one I never finish it. This book I could'nt stop reading! It has so much thrill and spunk that its hard to put down! In other words, its a "turn the pg. thriller". If you have a friend or son/daughter who hates reading givem this as a gift! They'd love it!

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Summary: One of the greatest books ever!
Review: This book is really good. I am not a big science fiction fan but I loved reading this book. It is suspenseful and there is a lot of action that won't keep you bored while reading. It is also a fairly easy reader and I recommend it to people ages 12 and up. You don't have to be big on sci-fi to read this book and love it!

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Summary: A sci-fi and literalry classic
Review: Frist thing frist is that Ender's Game is a great LITERARY classic, and a great book for every kind of read as long as they are a bit brighter than the average person. I for one am find the reviews for this work that badly rate it very humoeous they have completely missed the boat on Card's work.

The bad reviews for this book have 3 common flaws in them, the first is that to fully appricate this work one must have grown up being brigter than those around you, the second is that one must read not the story but the idea it delivers to one and also one must not take the ending aas the end but as the begining as Card intended. The hardest to explain here will be the the fact the story is centered not around the stroy but the feelings and thoughts of Ender as a person, the space travel and interstller warfare were merely a back drop to the feelings of an extremly intellagant person who desipite all that he knows is still a child. The idea of the pain Ender felt for each loss he inflicted, the idea of brothers and sisters and families adn how they don't alwasy get along, the idea that even an alien mind can be understood, the idea of adults underestimateing children, and most of all the prevaling human sprit that will bleed and sweat to save itself and than cry over the harm it has done. In this work Card has spoken to my sprit and my mind, I can feel Ender's pain and see the world through his eyes as well as my own, and I can also see my own life through Ender's eyes. If one reads the story only once and only reads the story it is a wated effort and one should haven't even bothered reading it in the frist place and should deffinately not put one's 2 cents into a review of a work one has never truely read.

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Summary: Ender's Game: the best sci-fi novel I have ever read
Review: Ender's Game is by far the best novel I have ever read. Certainly not a light read. I have read it twice in the past two years, and enjoyed it very much both times. Ender is a wonderful character to identify with, expecially when he is a child. The rest of the series follows him as an adult, they are also very good books, by in my oppinion, do not come close to Ender's Game. I deffinantly recommend this book all science fiction fans.

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Summary: THE Book
Review: This is THE book. Set in a futuristic setting and wild surroundings, the book not only copes with deep personal and human issues, but does it from the point of view of a child. Though it is an easy read, this in no way detracts from its value as a quality piece of literature. The story is summarized in many other reviews, so I won't do that here. However, I would encourage anyone reading this (especially those who may have read the book) to find the comments from Orson Scott Card (yes, he actually wrote in!) in the archives: September 7th. If you've read other reviews criticizing Card's style, this is a perfect place to see the reasoning behind it.

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Summary: Best Book Award
Review: I thought this book had a great overall message, and it was very real to how things are now on Earth that so many people don't see. It also gets into the story quicker than most books I read. It's a book I would read again.