Ender's Game

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Summary: Better then the average book
Review: This book was pretty good. We were assigned to read it during English class, 'cause half the book takes place in my hometown (Greensboro, NC. I play softball at the place where Valentine and Peter went to school.) Anyway, I think it was very imiginative , and I espically liked the partabout the Giant's Drink. I found the end to be a little dissapointing, though, even though it gave rise to several sequals.

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Summary: "Ender's Game" worthy of praise
Review: It's hard to imagine another six-year-old, in fact or fiction, with as much to worry about as Ender Wiggin. One day, he's dealing with worldly bullies. The next, he's preparing to deal with the alien variety.

Where Orson Scott Card delivers the goods in "Ender's Game" is creating a believable setting and an extraordinary but believable character. Adding depth and realism to it all are the men responsible for training Ender and his force for the ultimate showdown with their attackers.

The suspense kept me turning through the last page. To be sure, "Ender's Game" is a must-have on any serious science-fiction reader's bookshelf.

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Summary: Impressive, most impressive.
Review: If you look at the above reviews- people either love Enders Game or they hate it. Most people love it. Me too. It is so tragic and so intriging and so frightengly real. But if you read it expecting a paper thin Star Wars clone (no wait a moment I love Star Wars and Enders game- it is possible) don't read it. If you want a deep, involving Star Wars book read it.

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Summary: "What's all the hoopla about?"
Review: After reviewing all these glowing reviews, I was expecting an epic along the lines of the "Foundation" series, but instead, I get a little Napoleon who plays a video game and saves the world. And he doesn't even now he does it at the time! Worse yet, his sister and sadist brother influence world opinon through the web. Oh brother!!! The mildly entertaining ending isn't worth the dribble you endure to reach it.

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Summary: Ah, sweet nostalgia!
Review: Those who complain by saying that children are "good, pure, and inspirational" were obviously never children. The bullying in this book is mild compared to some that I remember from school-- and I'm not talking about inner-city gang wars, either!
I think the sheer number of reviews, good and bad (but mostly 10's), speaks for itself.

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Summary: Enders Game
Review: The best book I have read in years. Well written. I could not put it down. I read it 3 times.

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Summary: The finest sci-fi entertainment i have read to date
Review: There is not much to say about Ender's Game that has not already been said but I can not help but to add my name to the long list of adoring fans. Ender's Game is simply the best science fiction book i have ever read. Its an emotional tour de force with something to say about human nature. I am looking forward to reading the sequals which i just ordered from Amazon.com, and i recommend that every sci-fi lover get their hands on this book!!

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Summary: Take a hint
Review: This is one of the best sci-fiction books I have ever read in my life. It is incredibly intriging, and keeps you glued too it, even though it is not a horror/thriller. This is a MUST READ for not just science fiction and Orson Scott Card fans, but everybody. Heck - just look around and look at all the other ratings it has recieved.

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Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: Read this book, it will be one of the best decisions you make in your entire life. These reviews go on for about 6 years and some of the things people say are absurd. They criticize the idea of a 6-yr.-old military genius. He has been trained to do this. The military is looking for this kid, and has been for decades! Of course they find him. The central plot of this story is intense and action-packed, but the real value is in the effect that war has on the kids at battle school. Sure, that scenario will never come to pass, but that is not how you judge a good science fiction novel. The effect war has on kids is the main idea here, thus the children's battle school. Read this book, you won't regret it.

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Summary: Anyone who does not give this above an 8 is stupid!!
Review: This book has become an unspiritual Bible of the sorts for me. I turn to it with great aspiration and know that I will be greatly satisfied whenever I read it. "A Reader from Seward, Alaska" has a very good point. For all of you that do not appreciate this book, you have no sense of a good sf novel and do not appreciate excellent literature. There is no age limit for this book, but I am almost positive that when Card wrote it, he was somewhat aiming it toward the "younger" generation. For you who don't enjoy this book, you also are too stuck in the basic "iambic pentimeter" books, if you will, or what most of us call normal books, and don't have enough guts or a brain to read something as radical and unthought of as Ender's Game. "[e-mail] in Boulder, CO" personifies this perfectly. He/She is a very naive person and does not know good literature when they see it, and really needs to remove the stick from up their a*s. I am going to bring up this point again because as I keep scrolling through the reviews, I still see lines like "I myself am a very intelligent youngster, so the bookspeaks especially well to me." As quoted by "[e-mail]" from Massachusetts. Well, he/she's just plain conceited. This book does not have an age limit!!It is for anyone and everyone to read. I read this book first as an 8th grader, and again in 9th, and 10th. I was overly amazed to find out that this book wasn't offered in the cirriculum until 12th grade. I am being a hypocrite here, but imaginations don't run as wild in 12th grade as they do freshman year. I strongly reccommend this book to any youngster who has imagination and anyone else older who still has theirs. "Brittany Kelm of Albuquerque, NM" YOU GO GIRL!!!! She read it in 7th grade and read it for an assignment and loved it!! That is aspiration. I haven't seen many Sevies read a novel that big. Have you? "[e-mail]" is obviously color blind or something bizarre. And what is all this crap about it not being as good as "Star Wars" and "Dunes"!! For those of you that don't know and are totally clueless, there are other books in the "Ender's Game" Saga. "Speaker for the Dead", and "Xenocide" to name a couple. "Xenocide" is fairly good, and so is "Speaker for the Dead", but not near a comparison to "Ender's Game". I will check back every so often to harass those young, foolish "kids" who give this book a 4 or below. That is giving Orson Scott Card a bad look. READ THIS BOOK, DAMNIT!!