Rating: Summary: Stop thinking of children as stupid adults! Review: The problem with many of the people who read this book is that they have a preconceived idea of children as unthinking individuals. I can attest that we do have minds. Yes, minds, you heard me right. I understand that many people feel that 6-year-old Ender is far too young to be a military genius but my friends and I discussed subatomic particles in KINDERGARTEN! I am a gifted student, perhaps not as smart as Ender but over the years I have found that the teachers do not often know as much as they think they do and certainly not as much as many bright children. As Orson Scott Card put in his introduction (perhaps some of you have read it) he noted that children are a permanent underclass who are not taken seriously in the adult world. How many times have we all heard, "Yes. That's nice, dear" The real point of this novel is that you really shouldn't underestimate children. They have thoughts, feelings, and are intelligent. When you read this book reconsider the way you treat the children around you and if you take them seriously
Rating: Summary: ENDER DUKES IT OUT WITH FORD PREFECT Review: ------------------------------------------------ If Orson Scott Card and Douglas Adams got in a fight, who would win? I'm putting my money on OSC--he's not as tall as DNA, but he has mass on his side. Add that to the fact that DNA is ENGLISH (= pansy). HOWEVER, if they were in a bake-off together, DNA would win hands-down. Especially if they were making sandwiches or taking baths competitively. "Ender's Game" is an EXCELLENT read in the bath with a plate of sandwiches.
Rating: Summary: The best book I've ever read- Breathtaking! Review: This is the most wonderful story every written. I have yet to read a book that expresses human emotions better than this one. And anyone who says it was a terrible book, has something wrong with them. Obviously it wasn't realistic but the story line and the characters themselves were the best any author could have made them. At parts i could have cried. And the point where you realize that the game is all real, it just puts everything together. I loved it. I can't wait to read the sequel.
Rating: Summary: One of my all time favorite novels Review: When I first picked up this book in my english class two years ago, I had never heard of Orsen Scott Card, and I was very sceptical of his writings. But the idea of such an future as the on elder lived in continued to pull me in through out the book. It pulled me in so much I continued to read all three books in the series. And I am now a fan of Cards, and have read virtually ever book he has written. I have to recomend this book to anyone who enjoys science fiction and even most that don't.
Rating: Summary: Great start to the Ender series!! Review: This was a great start to the Ender series. It was the first of Card's work that I read. After reading that I was hooked. The plot is gripping and never stops. All of the characters were devloped very well, and it sets the reader up for Speaker and Xenocide.
Rating: Summary: A REALLY good book Review: Ender's Game is one of the best books that I have ever read. Once I started reading I couldn't stop. If you're in for a really good science fiction book you have got to read this one. It's a facinating story about a young boy with a different kind of a childhood.
Rating: Summary: YOU ARE MENTALLY DISTURBED IF YOU RATE THIS BOOK BELOW 10!! Review: I am 11 years old and have just finnished Enders Game for the ( I mean it,I counted) 37 time. It absolutely grabbed me. I am now insisting that people call me Ender. O.S. Card is truly a master in his field. Enders Game should have won far more awards. I have recommended it to everyone I know. I have read countless novels for all ages and I really think that Enders Game is the best.
Rating: Summary: A fast read that will linger and make you think Review: Everyone loves or hates this book, I love it. It has some inconsistancy errors, but they don't distract from the rapid pace Card sets. Ender's Game talks about gifted students through thier own world view. Most children do think they are people, not children. A gifted child pushed to his (or her) limits could well accomplish what Ender did, or they could go insane. This book I would endorse to anyone. But I don't loan it out any more. Four copies have fallen apart and another 6 were never returned.
Rating: Summary: In a word: inspirational Review: ...for those who classified this novel as 'an average sci-fi book,' I believe that they missed the boat completely. This was not only a superbly compelling science fiction story, but a fable in the grandest sense of the word. The lessons of love of hate, and of the intimate understandings thereof are to be taken to heart, are to be incorporated into one's own life and experiences, and are to be held as ideals forever. I feel that the reactions listed fail to address this, and, thus, miss completely, the moral of this story: To know is to love. To hate is to be ignorant...
Rating: Summary: I HATE SCI-FI but I had to read this for school, its GREAT Review: I never read any of our books in school. In class we started the first chapter of enders game and in some weird way I picked up the book at home and read to chapter nine. I loved the book and dreamt it through as I read it. I wish the book could go on forever it was exciting. After the first two chapter of introduction, the book is unexplanitory. Orson Scott Card wrote an amazing book. I know its a series, but i've heard the rest aren't as good so i never read them. READ THIS BOOK. I don't read, but I read this ONE book. I hate reading. My english grade always dies because of reading and i have to work hard to bring it up. I read this one I LOVED IT and my grade was an A
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