Rating: Summary: ENDER'S GAME Review: Ender's Game is a great science-fiction read about a boy genius who is taken from his home in Greensboro, North Carolina to go to an orbiting battle school when he is five years old. That purpose is to train to become a military genius; so he can command a world army to attack a hostile alien race that is threatening to destroy the world. While at battle school, he faces great challenges such as bullies twice his size and being forced to play and command two games a day in a simulator that teaches hand-to-hand combat and developing mental war strategies. Ender's Game is a great read for young adults who know and love science fiction. This is not the book for you if you don't have the patience to read longer sized books or can't stand violence, even to its lowest degree. The elements in Ender's Game that make it such a good read are the battle school, flash suits, aliens, and all the other stuff kids would love to have in their video games. During Ender's Game, Ender is pushed to his limits, but he must strive to be the best, because he is Earth's only chance. Is Ender enough to save the world?
Rating: Summary: Ender's Game grabs you by the teeth and doesn't let go... Review: Earth has been attacked by an alien force known as the "buggers" because they resemble a hybrid of humans and ants. They nearly destroyed us, now its time for us to retalliate, if only we had a commander...I am not an avid reader yet i loved reading Card's work. It snatches you and does not want to let go! Ender's Game is a thrill ride, loaded with action, action, and more action!! Not to mention amazing plot twists... This book is great for anyone, though i would caution parents in letting young children read it, due to the sparse crude language and intense fight scenes. Ender's Game flys by, it is a quick read and not necessarily a small book. Once you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down, i'm already planning on reading all of the books remaining in the series, i can't wait to get started.
Rating: Summary: Ender's Game is an exciting and engaging novel Review: I feel that Ender's Game is a wonderful novel. It is easy to read and hard to put down. I highly recomend this book to any one who enjoys Sci-Fi. This book is going to surprise you.
Rating: Summary: Ender's Game Review: Ender's Game is a wonderful book. It is a really easy read and so exciting that you won't want to put it down. Ender's character is taken from his home at age six and is constantly being manipulated by his commanders at battle school so he'll save the world from the buggers. They try to make him feel okay about hurting others so he can help them. He is able to win all of his "simulated battles" because he uses strategy and can understand his enemy. The more he learns about the enemy he questions whether or not they are that bad. I would highly recommend this book to everyone. The ending will shock you!
Rating: Summary: For Ender Wiggin The Future Is Now Review: Ender's Game is about a boy named Ender Wiggin, a nine-year-old genius, who is humanity's last chance for survival. The feared aliens, the buggers, haven't attacked since the second invasion, which was 70 long years ago. Ender must go to Battleschool to train for the next invasion. Ender will become the perfect commander, or at least is supposed to be the perfect commander. When Ender gets to Battleschool he is isolated to keep him alert. Ender becomes part of an army faster than any other person in the history of Battleschool. The way the author creates the game and describes how they play is crucial to making this book so good. Of course, that makes other kids jealous. Ender makes an enemy instantly. Bonzo, his first commander, doesn't like how Ender is small and such a big deal to the teachers. Bonzo trades Ender as fast as he can. But Bonzo hates Ender and will be back. I like the interaction between Ender and his jealous commander Bonzo. Ender gets his own army and it becomes the best army ever. They never lost even when there were two armies against them. I like the way Ender always makes up a strategy that works. I would never have thought of those plans. Ender will be the best commander in history if he keeps up what he is doing. But will the pressure get to Ender? Will he fail because he is lonely? You have to read the book to find out what happens, and you should because it's such a good book.
Rating: Summary: What a great book! Review: I usually have trouble finding a good book to read, but as I read the first page of Ender's Game, I was already hooked. I think it was the way Orson Scott Card wrote the book because it got me so interested and so I continued to read it. The plot is awesome its great to see the authors views of the future. For example your only allowed to have two children and the government chooses if you may have a third.Its very easy to read and the buggers (aliens) attacking the planet is just fasinating to read about. But it does go further, Ender's life at home and he being a third (third child of the family) is really emotional. Ender and his journey at battle school are absolutly fasinating, the earth life for Peter and Valentine was pretty was interesting but on a different level. Overall I loved the book and it's great for people who have problems finding great books to read. I'm exited to read the next book of the series (Ender's Shadow) because Orson Scott Card is a brilliant author.
Rating: Summary: Ender's Game Review: Card did an excellent job on this book. The reader can really identify and apithize with Ender. This book is extremely well written and keeps you wanting more. After reading this book you will be drawn to go out and pick up Speaker of the Dead, the second book in the series. Highly recommended
Rating: Summary: Not as good as expected. Review: Having been on a nostalgic classic Sci Fi trip lately I decided to pick up as many classics as possible and Ender's Game fit the bill. I have heard a lot about this novel and it's sequels as a definitive Sci Fi collection so I expected solid things from Card's work. Alas I was disappointed. Perhaps it is because I am relatively young and in this modern age classic Sci Fi is becoming outdated by modern technology but I also found Cards writing to be a tad borish. I read the entire book on a flight to Las Vegas so it is not a long read but the plotline really dragged. The characters didn't seem to define themselves in any great manner and the biggest issue I had was that the whole point of everything was never truly presented. At times I got a little lost at what was going on and had to track backwards to pick it all up again. Once able to keep on track I found the plot to be predictable and redundant. Ender was kind of an annoying character who just beat obstacle after obstacle with little explanation of how he did so. By the end of the novel my mind was so numb from the monotonous plotline I pretty much missed the whole point of the book. I wanted to like this book but it was just too dated and too simple to really have met my expectations. It is truly an example of how Sci Fi is getting dated in todays society and if you want some real good classic sci fi stick to Herbert's Dune series or some of the newer stuff coming out.
Rating: Summary: Ender's Game is sweeeeet! Review: Anyone who wishes to improve their life and the lives of their children should not only read Ender's Game, they should live it! Being a small boy, almost everybody can relate to Ender's struggles and successes in the novel. When he triumphs over bully after bully, so do you. When he dominates the battleroom, you do too. And when he finally ... but, then, I wouldn't want to give away the end. You'll just have to read this wonderful work for yourself!
Rating: Summary: Ender's Game Review: I could just go on and on like other book reviewers about how Ender's Game is a "literary masterpiece," and a "mindful work of art," but I'm not sure that's true. Although it does become fairly thought provoking near the end of the book, the beginning comes off as childish. Ender, the main character bravely abandoning his family to go to space to defeat aliens... It seems a little too cliche to me. But later on, as the leaders of Ender's Battle School begin to pressure him with the rigors of command and strange psychological games, Orson Scott Card truly develops and shows what happens when children are forced to grow up too fast. And what happens when a child stops playing the game. With the story becoming more complex, it becomes very easy to be drawn in and become attached to the few friends Ender made during his enforced isolation, and to wonder at the genius of children as young as seven. All in all, even if the book seems childish at first, it really does evolve into a "Literary Masterpiece," at least in my opinion, and if you're looking for a good book to read, it's definitely worth your time.
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