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Summary: Good book
Review: I'm impressed with the insight into the character of Ender. It is one of the rare books that caught me by suprise at the end, while making it seem a natural development. Concise writing and to the point. Such a wonderful combination of Science fiction ideas and social understanding.
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Summary: An enduring story about compassion and humanity--
Review: This is one of the finest novels you'll ever read. This is a book I have bought several times, yet that I still don't own, because I inevitably give my copies away to those who I feel should read this amazing story.First, it's a simple story, with deftly drawn characters and an incredible plot. It's a book to be read in one sitting, if you are inclined to such an activity. Ender, the precocious hero of the tale, is 3 years old at the book's beginning, but by the end of the book, he has saved the entire human race. His story is compelling and vastly entertaining. But ultimately, this book and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead, are about more than just a good story--- they are about tolerance, understanding, compassion, humanity. They offer an easy way into a large-scale understanding of what our place is in the universe. This won't clobber you over the head as you read the books, but perhaps after reading them you will be a little more inclined to try to understand another culture before denouncing it-- much as Ender must learn to deal with the fact that he was unwittingly responsible for the destruction of an entire race, without even understanding their identity or motives. I first read this book and its companion (I find the following books-- Xenocide, Children of the Mind, et al-- interesting, but Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead stand alone to me) when I was about 15 I think, and they have had a lasting impact on me. Since then, these books are the most recommended and gifted titles I have owned-- given with the intention of fostering an interest in science fiction, as well as with the idea that they can also demonstrate some of the more honorable and desirable traits humans can display. If everyone who reads this book can identify and learn even a little bit with Ender, I think Card will have done a great service to that readership. Highly recommended, and suitable for young adults and adults alike.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Enders game is one of the most spectacular books that I ever had the pleasure of reading. The author, Orson Scott Card, has just out done him self on this book. This science Fiction book is just full of drama, and adventure has you follow him through training and into combat.
The setting of the story directly affects the motivations of the main character. For instance, Ender is the main character and he chooses to go through training to fight buggers because he is in outer space. Ender has the determination to do his best to fight off the buggers. When he has to, he will do his best to save what means the most to him. For example, his sister Valentine encourages him to save the world. Another example is that when Ender is in a very peaceful place he has the motivation to do very little or nothing at all. Ender won't do anything at all until an out side force comes in and acts upon him to do something. Ender doesn't want anything to do with fighting or killing buggers unless he has to defend someone. Enders surroundings, outer space, and the influence of the people whom he cares for gives him the motivation to make choices, to create an interesting story.
Ender's game was, in my opinion, was better than all the best science fiction books, like stare track and star wars. If I could choose any science fiction books in the world I would choose Enders game for the drama, adventure, setting, and of course characters. Harry potter comes in a close second place. This book for all of these reasons is one of the greatest and best books I have ever read. I believe that the adventures and characters have captured my interest and Ender's Game will continue to be on my all time list of favorite books to read.
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Summary: Enders game
Review: I thought that this book was very well writen. i beleve that the way orson scott card wrote thsi book with great detal. He has a very creative mind. this is how the story starts, Ender is a child that has been out casted by his sosity. becase he is a third and child that is born out side the population limates. Ender has to deal with alot of different problems with people that pick on him. Yet the gov. alowed his family to have this child becase the 2 kids before peter and val were amazingly smart. So they beleve that he will be also smart. they test Ender using a monitor. this monitor test his ability to defend, resist and cope with the problems. many of the problms that ender had to deal with were consered. after ender leaves his family he goe to battle school a school for kids that a exeptionaly smart. these kids are to be trained to use military manuvers, these kids also play a game this game i in a room with no gravity and they fight each other. then after ender leaves the lanchie army he gets moved to a different army. here he meets bonzo. bonzo i the type of guy that dose not like people been better than him. after that ender finishes his time up at battle school and the officers dicide to move him to the command school. so ender gets on a ship and gose to command school. And well he rest of the stoy you will have to find out for your self so read this book
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's game is a fast paced, intense read that makes you think. Is it right to make kids lose their inocence? Do we have the right to eliminate an entire form of life? Are there really kids out there that are that smart? Does the Human Race have that kind of potential? It also keeps things simple and easy to read so the reader does not get lost amongst all the happenings. It is a great book and I strongly advise reading it.
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Summary: EnDeR's GaMe
Review: Enders game is a great book that is a definite page turner. The book starts out when Ender is chosen to go to Battle School. When he is taken to school he is isolated, tormented and worked tell he couldnt go any further. Soon ender becomes a leader of his own army. He wins all of his battles and soon graduates to command school. This is where he leaves his friends and has to learn how to command the real worlds army. This is when he starts to find how bad they are controlling his mind. The end is very clever and transfixing. This book was one of the best books I have ever read!!!!!!!!!!! A MUST READ.
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Summary: Join the Game...
Review: Welcome to the world of Ender, an oppressed genius of a boy who find himself recruited for the space army at the age of six. The boy surpassed the greatest expectations of the system, and is promoted...to what? Pck up Ender's game, and read it cover to cover like i did, and you will be sure to find out, and have a philosophical, entertained time of it while you're at it. And don't let his genius brother and sister slip through your fingers, as they plot to take over the world through diplomacy, with methods never before used. not really a childrens book, and optimal for young adults with a taste for deep science fiction with a somewhat sophisticated touch.
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Summary: Witness the Making of a Leader
Review: This is an excellent work of science fiction that has as much to offer adults as it does teens. In fact, both audiences will get what they need from this story, as the multiple layers aren't mutually exclusive. It would surprise me if younger audiences can appreciate some of the social commentary and politics of this story, which make the tale as excellent as do the complex action sequences. And what action there is. Ender Wiggins, who is exhaustively trained and groomed- and whose very birth was commissioned- to eventually lead the world in battle against alien forces ("the buggers"), grows up in an anti-gravity combat arena outside Earth, where his every move is watched by the military. The better he performs, the greater the challenges are created to train him or break him in the process. Every force in Ender's life is calculated by his handlers to prepare him for battle, beginning with artificial isolation from his family and from other children, to allowing the child's nemeses to confront and bully him, to maintaining computer games for Ender to play, which incorporate real elements from his past into the landscape. This book reads like a video game, through graphic representation of the battle scenes and thorough details of the strategies involved. Anyone who has ever appreciated military-style games like Stratego, or even tooled around with Army men, will enjoy the formations Ender employs in battle (and Card's vivid descriptions thereof). There is a large psychological component to Ender's training, and a sociological angle to the book in general, too. In fact, a well-developed parallel storyline to Ender's training involves his equally-brilliant brother Peter and sister Valentine, and their efforts to marshal populations back on Earth to prepare for war with one another, in case the threat of aliens turns out to be a hoax. Ender is a reluctant leader despite his very great gifts, and the entire training process begs the question: what if a society learned of a brilliant leader in its midst who was but a child; how hard should its leaders push him, versus letting him mature on his own? For that matter, to what lengths should a nation go to discover the next Napoleon, Washington, or Churchill, before he has the opportunity to develop a non-military interest? As for Ender, his fate hangs in the balance until the story's end, in a twist that remarkably allows him to skirt the issue of having to commit to one of his dueling natures: extreme empathy for others or utter ruthlessness in battle.
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Summary: move along, nothing to see here . . .
Review: the plot essentially involves super-genius children receiving military training in preparation for an invasion of alien insect creatures. much of the novel consists of detailed tactical descriptions of the equivalent of paint-ball played in zero gravity. the children then graduate to "command school" and rain on star-fighter simulators. The similarities between ender's game and the dreadful movie "Starship Troopers" only make matters worse. I read sci-fi either for (i) intelligent imaginings about future technology, or (ii) xeno-anthropology, for lack of a better term.
Jack Vance and Iain Banks come to mind. This book lacks any of these qualities... However, the book has received good reviews from reputable sources, so maybe it just was not my cup of tea.
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Summary: One of my favorite books
Review: A friend of mine lent me this book in high school and I read it twice in the week I had it. Since then I bought it for myself and have read it appoximately 30 times(somewhere around three times a year!).
I have never read a book that captured me like this one has. Every time I read it it's like coming back to an old friend. Not only does the reader have a chance to come to love Ender, but also Bean and Petra and to a lesser degree Crazy Tom and Hot Soup and all the others that eventually play a big role in the end.
I have to admit that I haven't read it yet this year(I must be really behind)but it's one of the only books that I can think about without picking it up and still be able to remember almost everything that happens.
I also should say that before this book and after reading the rest of the series(including the Shadow books)I have never picked up a science fiction novel. I never would have read this one if my friend hadn't insisted. Usually you can find me with a Stephen King or Agatha Christie book, but I would've really been missing out on a great book had I not given in to my friend's persistance.
I recommend this book to anyone, but mostly younger teens who can relate to the growing pains experienced by Ender and his struggle to get through adolescence. It's a great book about friendship and family as well as a good lesson in morality.
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