Ender's Game

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Summary: Great book
Review: Excellent thought-provoking book. Excellent for even non sci-fi fans. Go out and buy this book.

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Summary: Very good book, but...
Review: Please don't read my review if you havn't read the book yet (it spoils the ending).

I just want to give my own point of view about this book. Most of all, "how I felt" about this book is important to me: while I was reading it, and enjoying it a lot, I couldn't care less about humanity destiny, and just like many other readers I cared especially about Ender's feelings, one time even crying for them. But at the mid-part of the book I was expecting something like a revenge against the teachers, considered by Ender to be "the real enemies". Actually, I found myself hoping for it. So, as a reader, I found disappointing the fact that this "revenge" never comes, letting room for a plot that seems to give more credits to "goal achieving", as if the fact that Ender saved humanity could repay him for every suffering he went through. It does not, and I think the author knows that well. The ending may seem happy, but I found it very sad, unsatisfying, disturbing. Ender doesn't win over his "real enemies", the ones who took his childhood away, the ones who didn't care to use him as a tool, the ones who end up happy to have achieved their goal. It looks like Ender never loses, but he's losing all the time: at the end he only feels sorry and "condemned to pain". That's how I see it: this book is sad and a little disturbing because the "bad guys" actually win at the end. I consider this book a real work of art, but as a reader, I like happy endings. (I've seen a movie starring Jodie Foster about a genius-child, and that ending I liked a lot) If you want to write to me: [e-mail]

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Summary: You cant praise this book enough
Review: When i first walked into the local bookstore to buy ender's game, i thought i was going to get another 300 or so page run of the mill sci-fi novel. BOY WAS I WRONG! I started the book at around noon that day, during programmming class, much to the dismay of my camp councelor, who was trying to teach me something. After the first 10 pages, i wasnt even listening, i was soooooo caught up in the book. that novel has a magnetic power to it, its so good you cant put it down until you finish it, and even then, you wish you could keep reading, because you liked it so much. If your sitting in your chair reading this, thinking, he's just patronizing the book, email me at [e-mail], because if a book like this goes unread by a person, the person misses a chance for an amazing experience to be gained.

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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: It has been a while since I last read Ender's Game, but that doesn't diminish the impact it has had on this Sci-Fi junkie. Ender's Game is one of my most highly recommended reads to all of my friends. There are only a few books that match Ender's Game in my opinion, two being L.O.T.R and The Giants. The stoytelling by O.S. Card is incredible. There were many times I would stop reading to close my eyes and put myself in Ender's situation or imagine the thoughts and feelings that had been described. The story holds you to the end not letting you put the book down and the ending blows you away!

Do you need to be a science fiction lover to enjoy this book? No, on the contrary, anyone who enjoys a *great* book will enjoy this story. The ending is as good or better than anything in print. Get this book!

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Summary: Orson Scott Card is god
Review: Quite possibly my favorite book of all time. A must read. Anyone who has felt alienated by being a little brighter than others will tolerate will definitely understand Ender.

Those of you with inadequate IQ's will just give one star ratings like the other sub-normals, so don't bother.

I'm Out.

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Summary: ENDER'S GAME IS THE BEST BOOK EVER!
Review: I've read most of your books in the top 20, and i see no reason why Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card isn't there it is the best book i've ever read, and i know many who feel the same way. Please, rethink your rankings

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Summary: Great Book to Exercise Your Brain!
Review: This was my first Orson Scott Card novel, and it won't be my last. I really enjoyed the book. It was well written and it had no wasted words. Every word in this book has a purpose, and it comes together beautifully in the end.

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Summary: Best book I have ever read!
Review: I read this book in high school (in 1993) and have since given each copy I have purchased to any friend that has not already read the book! I have given away a dozen copies and will continue to give each copy I have to a new friend each time I learn that they like any genre of reading. Read this book not once but once every two to three years, you will enjoy picking up more details that never occurred to you the first time!

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Summary: Ender's Game: good book
Review: Ender's Game: a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, is about a young boy named Andrew Wiggin, or Ender, who is the world's only hope for survival. The novel is placed in space and on earth in the future, where aliens named by the human's as bugger's, have attacked and almost destroyed human life twice in the past. The bugger's are predicted by human's to attack a third time. But, the human's are determined to go to the bugger's planet and attack unexpectedly in hopes of destroying them before they have a chance to attack again. The human's have been training genius children in hopes of "transforming" them into soldiers that will, later in life, destroy the enemies: bugger's. Ender is one of the genius children in training, but there's something different about Ender. He thinks different than the other children and they recognize that. Overall, I thought Ender's Game was a good book Unfortunately though, I have never read science fiction before and therefore have no basis for comparison. I do know, however that Card's style of writing made it very easy to visualize what was going on, on earth and in space. There were many times throughout the book that Card described something with such detail that it felt as though I was there, seeing this place, hearing these things myself. For example Card was describing planet Eros, where Ender was going to Command School, through the eyes of Ender. Not only did Card describe how Ender saw Eros physically, but also how it made him feel as he saw this wierd place for the first time. Ender saw the ceilings as awkwardly low and it did not seem normal to him, like it wasn't a human place. It made him feel extremely uncomfortable and it put him on edge for a few days. Also, Card did an exceptional job describing each character. He did such a good job that if I was asked I could tell you detailed information about every character, no matter how big or small there part was. No one was mentioned in the book without at least a paragraph of backround information on them, even if a character was only mentioned once thourghout the novel. A down side to Card's thorough style of description is that it made the book seem long and drawn out at times. This is what I didn't like about the book. It seemed as though there was too much detail, at times, making some pages boring. I thought the irony in the book was great and well thought out. The whole book was ironic, making it very interesting with all the unexpectedness. Though, I already mentioned what I thought was boring in the book, over description at times, the irony kind of contradicted all the description. I mean by this that at times, when some part of the book seemed long and drawn out suddenly it would end with irony, which I thought made it interesting and worth all the boring description. In the end, I'm glad I read this book. It not only makes you think but it also sends across a good message. I would recommend this book to anyone especially the science fiction enthusiasts.

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Summary: Introduction To Sci-Fi
Review: My boyfriend had read this book years before me and suggested I read it, now I suggest it to you. I am not realy into sci-fi but this book changed my opinion of sci-fi. I found the book to be enrapturing.It was non-stop edge of my seat reading. I have read almost the whole series and will continue to read Mr. Cards' excellent work.