Rating: Summary: Wow! What a story. Review: I wanted to select a science fiction piece for my book club and chose Ender's Game becuase of it average customer rating. Not only did the entire group enjoy it, but we discussed it for more than 2 hours which is by far a record for us. I have since then read Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide and am now beginning Children of the Mind. I highly recommend this book and the others in the series. Orson Scott Card will keep you glued to the pages and leave you wanting more.
Rating: Summary: What A Book!!!!!! Review: You always liked those books you could never put down eh? Those ones sooo exciting, you just never want it to end? Well, I'm telling you this is one of those books! I have read it 7 times, yes, 7 times! Orson Scott Card is an awesome book writer, and im telling you, that you should get Ender's Game. Its about a boy, named "Andrew Wiggin"(Everyone calls him Ender) who was born specificly to be sent up to battles school to save the world from the terrifying "Buggers"(What the humans call the aleans) who attecked them twice and newarly wiped the human race out. Now Ender must train to become the savior of the Human Race, even though he doesnt quite know that at first. If you want a book, i HIGHLY recomend you buy this one! It is My Equally Favorite book with another one of the "Ender Saga", called "Enders Shadow". Enders Game = AWESOME!!! Speaker For The Dead = Not So Great Xenocide = So Bad i didnt get past the 100th page!! Enders Shadow = AWESOME!!! Shadow of the Hegemon = Great!! The others i didnt bother reading. You really have to get Enders Game, Enders Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon if you like Science Fiction!!!!! Laterz . .
Rating: Summary: Work Of Art!! Review: ... It's by far the greatest novel I've ever read in my favorite genre. Unlike most sci-fi books, ENDER'S GAME has so many emotions in it to keep you reading and picturing the characters. It was published in 1977, and I read it in 2001, but I still think it's a great book. It won the Hugo award in 1986, and the Nebula award in 1985. It's more for 12 to 13 year olds because of it's difficult words and concepts, but I loved it.
Rating: Summary: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Review: A good mix of action and storytelling is what makes this a great book. It was the first time that I had read a book by Orson Scott Card. He has a very descriptive style of writing. It has so much detail, that you actually see the story in your brain, like a movie. Some books don't give enough elaboration, so it is hard to get a clear idea of what is going on. It is even possible for a book to give too much elaboration, which makes all of the things the book says get confused in your head, but Orson Scott Card gives just the right amount. The story is interesting and hard to put down. In the story, Ender gets taken away to a military school when he is young. I felt sorry for him, because he is tormented by the other boys. He also doesn't like the teachers, because they are trying to control his life. I'm going to stop right here so I don't give away any more of the story. You should start reading this book when you don't have to do anything for a while, so you don't have to stop reading. It's pure torture if you have to stop, because you will be thinking about the book and won't be able to concentrate on what you are doing. I would definitely recommend this book for school projects and leisure reading alike. It is especially good if you put assignments off in school. You won't be able to stop reading, and before you know it, you're done.
Rating: Summary: Look to this for a definition of classic science fiction. Review: I enjoy science fiction. I like the situations and possibilities that one can only find in the genre. That said, 'Ender's Game' is striking. Having just finished it today, it is easily one of the top ten books I have ever read. It has all the trappings of sci-fi yes... space travel, techno-gizmo, other planets, aliens, future societies. But it is in the end a human story. Ender is destined to be the savior for the human race. He begins the story at six years old, the third child in an age where population control results in a two child maximum. His brother and sister had the ability, but it must be him that will have the personality. He is humanity's last hope, and Card takes us on the journey through his eyes, though his heart. I look to books for entertainment in a form that music and books can't give me. An enjoyable, quick read. But Ender's story caused me to rethink alot of my opinions about alot of things. To question my beliefs about meaning in my life, even. For Ender to make it, he will have to endure a terrible life... one of isolation, lonelyiness, despair. There are many people, important people, who are interested in him. But no one to comfort him, befriend him, confide with him. What the military puts him through would be considered criminal by today's standards. He is denied a childhood, and barred from any type of postive emotion attachment. There is a reason that this book has still has such a following nearly twenty years after it was first published. By the time it nears 40, I am sure it will have taken it's place among '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,' '1984,' 'Stranger in a Strange Land,' 'Rendezvous with Rama,' 'Farenheight 451,' 'Foundation,' and 'Dune.'
Rating: Summary: EXCELLENT! Review: A book that will intrigue people of all ages...
Rating: Summary: The Best Book Ever Written Review: There is no other way to put it. I have read other science fiction books, those who appeal to adults OR children, but never one that quite did what Ender's Game did. Throughout Ender's training in battle school, the teachers barrage him with tests that can't be won, challanges that can't be overcome, and obsticals that were to great to break through, and yet Ender finds ways that the teachers, or you would have never thought of. This child hero is the hero that appeals to children, and some adults. While on earth, the sibling of the boy wonder do their part to fire up the minds of the adults that hold politicial power overthe world. How these children deal with the problems facing Earth is definently how this book appeals to the adult readers. This book is great on its own, and better if you read the entire series. You can't go wrong reading this book.
Rating: Summary: Sci-Fi Near Flop Review: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a regular story that was packaged with a science fiction backdrop to make it more appealing. Ender's game does reflect problems in society by outlining the pressure that we put on the young to be number one. Ender's Game fails with grabbing the attention of an adult. The relationship between Ender and his sibling, Peter and Valentine, along with Enders internal stuggle to be the best or do what is right are the most important relationships and conflicts in the novel. Ender's game is a book for youth aged 10-16. My imaginiation wouldn't allow me the opportunity to enjoy this novel. I love science fiction but I think that Ender's Game fails at entertaining adult readers.
Rating: Summary: The best book I have ever read! Review: This is the best book I have ever read. It's about this military genius that calls himself Ender (short for Andrew) who is put in "Battle School" to defend the human race against buggers, bug-like organisms with one mind in the bunch of thousands. However, all people know that he will be the commander of the fleet to stop them. So, they put Ender (his real name is Andrew Wiggins)into isolation. In battle school, this causes him problems, but he still has a group of friends. When they promote him to Command School, he is six years too young, and, this time, he isn't around people his own age for any of the time. If he's not with teachers, he's with one teenager at a time, and he never sees one of them more than once. Finally, he only has one teacher: Mazer Rackham, the commander that defeated the buggers in the second invasion. Together, they have to find the rest of Ender's genius and get it to it's full potential before the next attack begins in five years. Ender tires out, and, before long, he is relying heavily on his commanders, all of the students that were his friends and fellow commanders at Battle School. I wish I could say more, but then you wouldn't need to read the book, so this review would be a waste of time.
Rating: Summary: WOW Review: as a school project i had to read a science fiction book. I chose Ender's Game. I was expecting it be a pretty boring book but i was so wrong... u should surley read it... i was suprised cause i dont like many books, but i have to say this was one of my favorites -;- -;- -;-
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