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Summary: The best of the best
Review: Ender is a young boy who faces all kinds of demons in this book. In the not so distant future, aliens have already attacked once, and are about to attack again. Those in charge are scrambling to find someone to save the world against the aliens, and Ender is the one they find.
Ender's Game is entertaining and well written, but those who read it purely for entertainment value will also find something much greater. This book forces you to think about some critical issues.
To put it simply, this book is one of the best there is.
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Summary: My favorite sci-fi book ever . . .
Review: But also intersting on a whole other level. The psychology and motivations for the characters are complex, and aside from Ender's time at Battle school, the conversations and writings of Valentine and Peter are equally as interesting. Ender is a character which one can never forget. What more can I say? Orson Scott Card is a master of writing, and Ender's Game (as well as all of it's sequels) is proof of it, tracing the development of a taunted "third" to a military genius caught up in a giant scheme.
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Summary: Blah. Overrated!
Review: This book was alright, it was not very good, but I would not say it was absolutly terrible either. It kept me flipping the pages. However, I still have a few bones to pick. The author's writing style is not very smooth and his prose is clumsy at times. It is not the fact that it is simple, and personally I like simple as oppsed to literary gimmericks, but it is that he muddles it and it does not flow properly. He does not do too good a job at painting visual images either. In fact, he does not even describe his characters physically once except to mention that one boy was black and a man is fat, which is a little suspicious. The pyhscology of the book and the mental struggles were not original or captivating enough to make up for lack of imigery either. The personalities of the characters were also quite steriotypical and clice, and none of them were too deep. It is a very typical plot and did not enlighten me, and was highly unrealistic. I suggest that Mr. Card read the Art of War by Sun Tzu to really know how battle tactics work. Finallly, it is sexist. Once it is stated that women have too many years of evolution against them. Excuse me? In the battle school, there is only the one token female student, and the students are all refered to as "the boys" and the military people are "the men" and quite honestly, what they lean there has nothing to do with physical strengh and more with brains and quick reflexes so there is no sufficent reason for the lack of female students. That is unacceptable.
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Summary: Real Science Fiction
Review: Common Science Fiction is about space ships and aliens. REAL science fiction take a scientific principle or theory and develops a plausible story around it. Orson Scott Card has done a superb job of creating a REAL science fiction work of art. I put Card in the same category with Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov.
Only 16 times since 1965 have both the Hugo award and the Nebula award been given to an author for the same novel in the same year. "Ender's Game" (1985) and the sequel "Speaker for the Dead" (1986), both by Orson Scott Card, are two of the 16.
Also highly recommended is "Ender's Shadow". "Ender's Shadow" is not a sequel, but a companion novel to "Ender's Game". A companion novel is a retelling of the same story, but from another character's perspective. Easy to say - difficult to do! Card showed his real genius here. Although you know how it will end, you are still on the edge of your seat.
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Summary: Most amazing book of all time!!!!!
Review: Orson Scott Card is the funniest, most brilliant author in the world, an absolute genius. People talk about writing THE novel, Card has done it. The Ender and Shadow series are amazing, Bean and Ender are greaat characters that everyone can relate to. MUST READ. read every OSC book that you can get your hands on!!!
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Summary: more than a game
Review: in cards dedication he writes "for geoffrey, who makes me remember how young and how old children can be"although meant as a dedication, a finer prologue could not have been penned. card gives us alexander 'ender' wiggin, born into a world trapped in a war effort set beyond the stars. ender is slated as the war, and the worlds only hope, and we are brought through his journeys through battle camp, and through life. card uses ender, and the war, to comment on the frailness of childhood, and the hopelessness of war, as it robs ender of the most precious gift...his innocence. the book is fast paced enough to keep even fickle young readers entertained, and works on a second metaphorical level throughout, to keep older readers interested. although centered around a six year old, this is not a tradtional kids book. anyone looking for this to turn out as harry potter revisited, is in for a few surprises.
that is not to say however, that this is not a good book for children...it is just not a traditional one
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Summary: WOW...amazing
Review: I have to say that i'm not much of a sci-fi reader and when I was recommended this book, i was skeptical. However, when i started reading this, i was immediately drawn in because to me, the whole fighting aliens is the basic storyline that holds everything together but definitely not the most important thing of the story. I was fascinated by the way the author wrote Ender's feelings and thoughts and really delved into the psyche of the boy. This story is amazing and though i've read it a dozen times, i keep coming back to it. Orson Scott Card is an extremely gifted and funny writer and Ender's Game has become one of my favorite books because of it. Other amazing works of his are Enchantment (though it's not very sci-fi at all) and Ender's Shadow which is a parallel story to Ender's Game but from the viewpoint of Bean. The juxtaposition of the two is very well done. All in all, this book is exciting, gripping, and wonderful. Definitely worth buying because chances are, it will most likely be checked out of your library or you'll get sick of going back to borrow the same book over and over again.
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Summary: the first and best book i've read
Review: i never read as a youth(i'm still a youth really,18) but after being forced to read the first line of this book i've never been any were with out one. this book got me into the hole book thing becouse of it's gripping story, well writen pages and it's great characters. if your into reading at all, not just sci-fi this is a book you must own.
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Summary: Excellent- one of my favorites
Review: An excellent read- but be sure to get "Ender's Shadow" also...it's a parallel novel that should be read with Ender's Game fresh in mind...both are in my top 5 all time best list.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's game is one of the best books I have ever read. It can only be topped by its sequels, especially Xenocide. It is like a futuristic Harry Potter, being enjoyed by both children and adults.
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