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Summary: Facinating and easy to read
Review: Ender's Game was one of the finest examples of Science Fiction I have ever come across. The characters were elaborately drawn and very realistic. Aside from that, it was easy to read and understand; a quality rarely come across in Sci-Fi. The story takes place in the future, 80 years after the "Buggers" have attacked humans and started a war. Now the humans are sending several fleets to the Bugger home planet in the second war to wipe them out. Ender is a superintelligent child whose job is to save humanity, and in the process he discovers more about the Buggers than anyone before.
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Summary: The Best Novel Ever!!!!!!!
Review: This has to be the best novel I have ever read! I couldn't put it down and when I had to i didn't want to! I can relate to the main character, Ender Wiggin, with all the pressure getting to him, having people expect more out of him than he relly can do. Just when it gets boring something exciding comes up. Left me on the edge of my seat! I can't wait to read Speaker for the Dead! --Diane
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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: I would like to say that all you people who say this book was not worth reading. If you can't appriciate all that this book stands for, you should be reading Goose Bumps,and babysitters club. Card has been able to portray how young ,and old kids can be. This is the best book book ever written and if you can't understan all that it stands for ,then you are a fool
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Summary: This book is so wonderful! I couldn't put it down.
Review: Originally, I was assigned Ender's Game as a reading assignment for my Lit class. I picked it up and started reading. The first chapter, as I would learn with Speaker and Xenocide, was extremly confussing but as the book progressed it became more interesting. I felt as if I had to finish it, and two days after I started, I did. This book is well written with an original and even loveable sci-fi plot. Ender's character is very well developed and reaches out to the reader, grasps him, holds him, and makes the reader hold their breath as Ender faces Bonzo, Mazar, and the alien fleet that he wipes out unknowingly. The empathy that Card stirs within the reader as Ender experiences the loss of Valentine and the love for Bean is nothing short of amazing. I would reccomend this book to anyone and I hope the Mr. Card writes more books about Ender. He's the character you love and cannot hate because he's the good and evil in man, only with a heart.
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Summary: It's a great book 4 any human that can understand its depth.
Review: I am 14 years old and just finished this book. It is wonderful! I enjoyed every moment of reading this novel and I plan on reading the sequel ASAP. Card is a great SF writer, and I admire his writing technique. Though I could never write a book as deep as his, I thoroughly understood and enjoyed this one. My thanks to Card--keep up the excellent work!
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Summary: Most amazing book I have ever read! No exceptions.
Review: I read the Ender chronicles first when I was about 12 years old. It's the story of a child genuis destined to save the world. The book made such an impact on me that I really cannot imagine what it would be like to not have read it. The other three in the series were also incredible books that followed the story of Ender. I hope that by reading this book it offers you a different perspective on the value of children in our scociety and the things that we can accomplish if allowed to put our creativity to good use. I think that the book can also be taken to the level of a fantasy novel that is entirely unrealistic, and this may be true, but the truth rings out throughout the novel, if you know where to look. Salaam.
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Summary: A Wholly Remarkable Book
Review: But of course, greater in many respects than Douglas Adams' "Guide".What more can be said about it - the greatest sci-fi ever written, and my favorite book in any genre. Fans will be disappointed with the movie, though, if it ever gets made.
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Summary: English 122-100 Extra Credit Ben Nomura
Review: Ben Nomura, 12.4 (Novel Essay, Research) People often theorize about the consequences that would come with having a perfect soldier. Usually, only the positive aspects are considered. Left out of these theories are the many negative aspects of a human weapon. Armchair philosophers have hypothesized about soldiers who could kill without remorse, who have no fear of death. Many movies have been made about people who kill without remorse. Television shows have depicted assassins having no fear of death. Unfortunately, these movies and television shows fail to display the true effects of a perfect human weapon. Once the drawbacks of a perfect killing machine are considered, clearly the idea of a perfect weapon should never come to fruition. One theorist adding weight to this point is Orson Scott Card. From a pile of philosophical debris rises Card's "Ender's Game," a story offering the most intriguing depiction of a perfect weapon yet. The tale follows the life of Ender Wiggin, a 6-year-old boy growing up in the military of the future. For the world Ender lives in to survive, military leaders have devised a plan to create a perfect weapon. This weapon is Ender. While other children play on swings, Ender is in combat training. Ender's life is the military; he knows nothing else. Although Ender Wiggin performs his job as a perfect weapon spectacularly, he must sacrifice. He sacrifices to the point no one should have to. Unbeknownst to Ender, he has been forced to give up a traditional family. He has no knowledge of his mother or father. Furthermore, Ender is turned into a slave. He has a job he cannot quit. He works long strenuous hours on little sleep. Ender does all of this to save a world he has never known. Although he lives a truly sad life, Ender is content. He has never experienced the world as a normal boy. He has lived the military life throughout his childhood with nothing to contrast it. The story's surprising ending involves Ender destroying an enemy alien planet, saving his world. Ender is never told that by destroying the planet he was committing genocide. In fact, Ender was under the impression that the whole incident was a game until he had finished the enemy off. Once his commanders finished rejoicing, Ender was told what he had done. Ender had no reaction. He had no idea what killing all of those people meant. He was unable to have an emotional reaction. More than having his childhood robbed from him, Ender was gutted of his humanity. The sacrifice Ender made was without consent. While it is true Ender saved his world, no child should be stripped of its innocence. No human being should be robbed of their emotions. In this extreme case, a perfect weapon was needed to save millions of lives. However, a world where anyone could have their child taken and abused by a governing body is not a humane one. It would be terrible to win a war with soulless human machines and then introduce them to the world as such. Worse would be the feeling that your child might be next to head off to a military base to be dehumanized. It would be far better lose a war with soldiers who had heart and could think for themselves. At least you would be trying to preserve a world of righteousness as opposed to living in a world of hell. Another drawback to a perfect weapon could be the controlling party involved. The idea behind a perfect human weapon is that the weapon has no emotions and does not think for itself. For a perfect weapon to be used, there must be a controlling party that instructs it. In the case of "Ender's Game," little is known about the controlling party. The ideas governing the actions of Ender's controlling party are unexplained. Ender's commanders could be villains who want Ender to kill for numerous sinister reasons. If that were the case, Ender would have still performed his job in the same manner. Ender would still have destroyed what could have been a peaceful planet. A huge chink in the armor of the perfect weapon theory is that evil can be accomplished as readily as justice. Another problem associated with a perfect weapon is what happens to the weapon once the weapon's duties have been performed. Here, there are three choices. The first is to kill the human weapon. This option is the cruelest of the three. Next, the person designed to murder could be kept in the military for the rest of their life. They would never know the real world and live in isolation for throughout their existence. The final option is to introduce the killing machine to society. This has many complications associated with it. The first is that anyone who has been altered to kill will have a hard time adjusting to the normal world (to say the least). Save being a postal worker, there are no jobs for them. They wouldn't be able to have any kind of normal relationships. Furthermore, no one would ever accept them. They would be an outcast of society. In addition to writing books, Orson Scott Card also teaches writing workshops. In order to become writers, Mr. Card tells his students not to major in English. Rather he tells them to study humanities and history. It is his opinion that a good writer will go to the source of human behavior. Orson Scott Card contrasts these classes to psychology and sociology where, he says, "you'll generally get just a bunch of bogus theories." It is his challenge of the perfect weapon theory in "Ender's Game" that stood out to me. Although people hypothesize about a perfect weapon, this idea should remain an idea. No one should take the soul from a human being in order to accomplish any goal. Nor should any party be allowed to control such a powerful tool. The complications of a perfect weapon far out weigh the rewards it could produce. END
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Summary: This is a great book and start of the series!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. The plot is well-developed, the ideas are cool, and it is very powerful and moving. I reccomend it!
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Summary: more than science fiction
Review: It blows my mind that this novel hasn't achieved the popularity and commonality it deserves. Although I have only finished the novel this morning, I intend to head directly to my former high school to see that this book is used in teaching. The character development, complexity of the plot, and use (and seeming misuse) of faults and virtues of humanity ought to make this book a classic. I will do my part to see that it is viewed as one.
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