Ender's Game

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Summary: The Best
Review: Hands down, the best work of fiction I've ever read.

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Summary: Never thought I'd like Sci-Fi
Review: I never was a big Sci-Fi fan. However, my husband suggested it as one of the books he'd read aloud to me in the evenings. I was hesitant at first, but it didn't take long to really get into the story. It was a real page-turner to me. You can read other reviews to find out more about the story's content, I just want to say it's more than a great Sci-Fi book, it's just a great book period.

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I first read this book when I was 13 years old. It fascinated and amazed me then. Immediately after finishing it I started over and read it again. Eight years later, it is still my favorite book. I've read it countless times and anytime I am unsure of what to read next, I can always turn to Ender.
I have recommended this book to many people - most of whom do not have any particular interest in science-fiction, and all have loved it.
The beauty of the book is that everyone who reads it wants to be Ender. They are simpathetic towards him, and can somehow relate to what he goes through.
Buy it, read it, love it.

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Summary: Almost
Review: This is probably one of the most well written books that I have ever read, very intruiging, and interesting. However despite the author's explanations in the beginning of the book, he does not manage to make the characters people. He obviously is trying to delve at emotions, and the like, but the characters come across without the genuine, human feel, that is needed for a sense of completion in any novel. A very good read, but the characters do not satisfy.

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Summary: A good book
Review: Ender's Game,the story of a young boy who is given the burden to save the entire human race from the invasion of an evil alien race called the Buggers. With several twists and turns this book takes you on an amazing journey throughout the entire book with a surprize ending to finish it off.

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Summary: Review of Enders Game
Review: I read Ender's Shadow first and I found it better than Ender's Game but probably because i read it first. So, read Ender's game first.

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Summary: Ethics in Ender's
Review: Ender's Game was a deeply concentrated novel that imposed and introspected what the effects of technology on ethics and lifestyle could be. How ethical was the use of science in weeding out the perfect soldier? I am proposing that the methodology of the scientists and military was absolutely inexcusable in the way that they molded Ender from childhood and took advantage of his bad home situation. Throughout the entire novel, Ender is being talked about behind his back and his entire future is being decided. Is he or is he not the prefect soldier that is bred to save mankind?
Ender is the third son of the family which was illegal to have in the time this novel takes place. The government allowed them to have a "third" because they wanted to experiment to find the perfect soldier. To what extent should genetic experiments be sanctioned by a governing body? This is in fact exactly what the "powers that be" is this novel do. They produce and mold Ender as the prodigal soldier who makes the right decision in battle (with a bully at his school) and is the ushered into a final situation where worldly ethics and boundaries of technology are given a questionable reality.

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Summary: Almost scary
Review: Ender's Game is a book that really made me wonder what my students would try just by reading it. In today's society you have so many young people who watch things on television and read things in books just to go back and mimick it. Ender's Game is very futuristic and involves alot of fantasy, however some of the things that happened in the book did not seem so far from being real. Enders Game really shows how powerful the computer industry could be if the right people put the right things together. I see no reason as to why a middle school students imagination wouldn't make this story reality. Although it is fictional and most of it is fantasy, there is really nothing that says this can't happen. Modern technology almost proves it.Therefore I would not recommend this book to teachers of public schools because you could be held responsible for your students imagination. The book is too far advanced in technology to be real however the story line of Ender growing up to find a meaning for his life all alone is a good topic. Still, I don't agree that futuristic happenings are the way to do it because too much can be made into reality as a goal.

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Summary: One of my Top 10
Review: This book was given to me as a advanced reader's edition for the re-issuing in 2001. I'll admit, I was doubtful, but I'm so glad I read it! I even have an email with a referance to Ender's Game in it!
I am part of a Reviewers Staff group at a bookstore, so my job was to read it, write a review for the store, and then tell people about it. As you can see, I loved it, and am now typing this review for anyone in doubt of Ender's Game. This book was really superb. My top ten books of all time (so far) are all six Ender's Game series, (including Beans' Shadow books, he's another Battle School Graduate) and the four Harry Potter books. Two more "Shadow" books are coming out soon. Then the final count will be eight for Ender's Game.
I so far have gotten five people to read Ender's Game. They haven't finished, but they say they love the Battleroom, the weight-less "room" where the child military geniuses have mock battles against other mock armies (such as Rat, Salamander and Dragon.). Older students are the commanders of the armies, and experianced soldiers are platoon (or just plain toon) leaders. The rest of the soldiers are just soldiers. There is one remarkable thing about these soldiers, though. They are taken from their homes at age five or six, and graduate from Battle School at age fourteen or sixteen. They spend their entire childhood in space! They are then shuttled off to Tactical, Stratigical or Pre-Command School. Lastly, they fly to Command School, where even the location is a secret, and nobody under twenty-five is trusted. This is a pretty bad mistake, considering they put their future of humanity in the hands of a bunch of 10 year-olds. This isn't a game anymore, they are trying to save humanity against the ultimate enemy, the Buggers.

Rating:
Summary: One of my Top 10
Review: This book was given to me as a advanced reader's edition for the re-issuing in 2001. I'll admit, I was doubtful, but I'm so glad I read it!
I am part of a Reviewers Staff group at a bookstore, so my job was to read it, write a review for the store, and then tell people about it. As you can see, I loved it, and am now typing this review for anyone in doubt of Ender's Game. This book was really superb. My top ten books of all time (so far) are all six Ender's Game series, (including Beans' Shadow books, he's another Battle School Graduate) and the four Harry Potter books. Two more "Shadow" books are coming out soon. Then the final count will be eight for Ender's Game.
I so far have gotten five people to read Ender's Game. They haven't finished, but they say they love the Battleroom, the weight-less "room" where the child military geniuses have mock battles against other mock armies (such as Rat, Salamander and Dragon.). Older students are the commanders of the armies, and experianced soldiers are platoon (or just plain toon) leaders. The rest of the soldiers are just soldiers. There is one remarkable thing about these soldiers, though. They are taken from their homes at age five or six, and graduate from Battle School at age fourteen or sixteen. They spend their entire childhood in space! They are then shuttled off to Tactical, Stratigical or Pre-Command School. Lastly, they fly to Command School, where even the location is a secret, and nobody under twenty-five is trusted. This is a pretty bad mistake, considering they put their future of humanity in the hands of a bunch of 10 year-olds. This isn't a game anymore, they are trying to save humanity against the ultimate enemy, the Buggers.