Rating: Summary: This will become a sci-fi classic after generations. Review: The actual point is 9.9. The only thing that keep me from giving it 10 is because my belief that nobody is perfect.
But what OSC did is close to perfection. My sincere congratulation to him
Rating: Summary: Hype Review: This book is worth reading, only if you are really bored. Can we say characterization? Obviously not! This is more a blow by blow of some hyped up superlative child, than an actual tale of futuristic life. Social Darwinism at it's best. A must have for every little child who thinks that they are a genius
Rating: Summary: More than just action science fiction! Review: Ender's Game is one of the best novels I have ever read. I have read many of the classics, and they could not hold a candel to the TITLE PAGE of Ender's Game. It tells the story of a young prodigy, with intellectual talent beyond anything humanity has ever seen. Although many have said is unrealistic for a 6-year-old to speak and act like an adult, he must think of himself as one, like prodigies do. A prodigy, such as Ender, has an IQ of about 200+, meaning they are twice as smart as the average person their age. But Ender is more than the average prodigy- he can create strategies that cannot be matched, and cause surprises to all his enemies. And those surprises are why Ender's Game is such a great book
Rating: Summary: Do I even have a "right to write" on this book? Review: I find it difficult to sit and write a review of this book; I know that I could never conceive a novel so wonderfully enthralling and infalliably intense as "Ender's Game". Never the most enthusiastic Sci-Fi reader, I was not expecting the novel to have the impact that it did. Card took this unusual and very special boy Ender and made him a part of the reader. Through amazing depth of character and systematic progression of suspense, "Ender's Game" took me by the ears and wouldn't let me go. I found it wonderful that I was able to relate to a boy so obviously differed from me in so many ways. In Ender I saw myself, and thereby learned something about myself; what more noble purpose is there in Science Fiction? Card is excellent at explaining "streams of thought" in Ender, and is therefore very thorough in the motivations that Ender has for his every action. His conveyance of this motivation is so nonchalant and passive that its cold and infallibly true nature cannot be undermined. The reader simply accepts the reasons for Ender's actions and continues to go on with the story; this is most educational. It makes us analyze our own reasons for our actions, and instills in us an ability to logically choose courses of behaviour the way that Ender does. Ironic, isn't it, that one could become more mature from reading about a character so young
Rating: Summary: Not A Glimmer in Science Fiction, but a Standard Review: Ender's game is perhaps one of my favorite books that I have ever read. Card spins an almost brutal tale of a young boy who is whisked off to unknown places. Younger than any of his other classmates, Ender was chosen.
I found that the most fantastic thing about the book was the stark reality that often is inflicted upon people. The utter lack of realization of what they are doing is often mindblowing and destructive to people. That Ender did not commit suicide after all he went through was almost more than I could believe.
Card spins this tale in more mind-numbing reality than I have ever read. It is books like this that inspire people to read more, not less. Ender's game entered my hands and mind one Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning, I sad, for it was over, and I had to close the cover on my new-found-friend, Ender Wiggen
Rating: Summary: The ending contrasts with the entire rest of the book. Review: I love this book and remember it as one of the greatest books I have ever read. However, I must admit that I am unhappy with the ending. The ending was very interesting and entertainig, but it left a few unanswered questions and did not seem to satisfy my hunger for the material
Rating: Summary: The BEST!! Review: Earth has been attacked twice, and no one wants to see it happen again. And so the fate of the world falls onto the shoulders of the greatest military genius ever--a six-year-old boy named Andrew Wiggen, known as Ender. "Ender's Game" is the best book that I have ever read, and I recommend it wholeheartedly
Rating: Summary: Once you start Ender's you can't put it down till the end. Review: Ender's Game is one of the best novels I have read in many years. up there with Ringworld, and Foundation. I recommend this book without reservation. I garantee that you once you pick this book up you will not put it down until you are finished
Rating: Summary: A book no one can touch Review: ENDERS GAME, the story of Ender Wiggen. A most superbly written book. It appeals to all ages. I'm 14 and couldn't put this book down. This is a book that grabs you from the start, and
never lets up. Many of my friends have read it.
We all agree ENDERS GAME is the best.
Rating: Summary: Card's simplest - and best book Review: OK, it's pretty obvious that anyone who wants to read reviews about Ender's Game had better have a lot of time on their hands, but I thought I'd put in my $0.02 anyway. Hey, you don't *have* to read it!
Orson Scott Card has the annoying tendancy to substitute semi-religious spiritual mumbo jumbo for actual plot. He seems to have this Thing with super powerful deities which are never referred to as God (an outdated term of an archaic belief system), Card seems to think that calling God Jane makes it allright to blame all the world's troubles on it. Ender's Game is blissfully devoid of this spiritual prattle, instead of an earth-shattering ultra-meaningful tale spanning millions of years, this book is an extremely human story about a boy trapped by his own intelligence.
Ender Wiggin is being forced to become the ultimate killing machine, and yet he manages, with an adult sort of grace that his teachers seem to lack, to hold on to his humanity and convictions. Anyone who has ever wondered why adults are soooooooo stupid, why teachers are soooooooooo dense and why other kids are sooooooo cruel will identify with Ender's pain and loneliness. Much like Herbert's Paul Atreideis, Ender is trying desperately to avoid his destiny, but the forces of the entire government are against him, and in the end he plays his part, with disasterous results for himself. This book doesn't get a 10 because Card slips into his spirit-speak towards the end, and also because of all the sequels. In his introduction, Card claims that he expanded Ender's Game from a novella so he could write Speaker For The Dead, but I believe that he would have been better off if he'd simply stuck with Ender and let the story finish there. Ender's Game is, quite simply, one boy's story, beautifully and sadly told.
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