Ender's Game

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Summary: disappointing
Review: I found the premise to be ridiculously unrealistic. Would a planet (or a country) entrust a few children to direct its armed forces, regardless of how talented or bright those children were? Isn't field experience a factor? Isn't that why generals and admirals exist? And implants to enable the state to have 24 hour observation of signs of genius in a 5 year old ..come on. But if you're willing to swallow these absurdities, I suppose it's good reading..

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Summary: Beautiful
Review: When you finish the book, you are left with an empty feeling that it's over, and you want to turn back to page one and start all over again.

Ender Wiggin is one of the best characters I've ever read about. Card creates some of the most beleivable characters in this story, and has a great understanding of human behavior.

Although the best part about this novel is that from start to finish, there is not one page that lags the story, it's a constant go-go-go pace. You will not be able to put it down once you start. This book is simply beautiful.

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Summary: Ender's "not so fun" Game
Review: Ender's Game was tedious reading. However... it's an original story with a great ending.

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Summary: Essential reading for everyone, repeat, everyone
Review: Science fiction is all too often looked upon as an inferior form of literature. True, there is plenty of trash in SF, but also in romance and mystery and those are rarely refered to with the same contempt. One of my english teachers once said (and I apologize in advance if my quote is not a hundred percent accurate) that only a realistic novel (i.e takes place in a realistic setting) can achieve a high level of emotional effect, because the reader can only identify with the characters if they are placed in a setting we are personally familiar with.

Ha.

For any of you who might share this opinion, Ender's Game is the place to start your re-education. A masterpiece, one of the finest books written in the last fifty years, an absolute essential reading for all - I'll go as far as to say, especially those who are not heavy SF fans, because if you're a heavy SF fan and you haven't read it you're in trouble. Suffice to say that it won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and that it absolutely deserved them. Ender's Game is the most human, most touching piece of science fiction I've read, a perfectly flowing novel, the kind that is painful to put down. I wouldn't like to give too much of the plot away, but I would say that it takes plaee in outer space, and it does in some way involve aliens; and it's completely not what you might expect.

Orson Scott Card is a wonderful author, and of his books that I've read Ender's Game is most likely the best. Three sequels exist, all of them fantastic, but Ender's Game is by far the most accessible. The second book in the series, Speaker for the Dead, is also a masterpiece, but it's involves much more 'sci-fi philosophy' which some may find more appealing than the more psychological emphysis of Ender's Game and others may find somewhat tiresome. The others in the series, Xenocide and Children of the Mind, continue the direction the second part took and wander further off to long, complex phylosophical-scienific theories. Those two are certainly not for everyone. Ender's Game is, and it's the place to start. I've said enough. Read it now.

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Summary: I usually don't read Sci Fi as a rule...
Review: _Ender's Game_ is highly energetic. Card's juxtaposition of moral dilemmas, political intrigue and action/adventure is first-rate. Multi-faceted but not convoluted. You will want to read further in the Ender series.

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Summary: Captivating
Review: Ender has become an entity in my class. The book has become a phenom. It's amazing, a definite page turner. I finished it twice over one weekend. Ender's game is almost impossible to put down.

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Summary: Outstanding
Review: There is so much depth to Ender's Game that at times it can leave one stunned. It's my favorite book! I can't think of a book that has affected me as greatly or made me think as much as this one. If you're looking for a great book, and not all that long of a read, i would definitely recommend it. When you're done read the rest of the series! They're just as good, but in a different way. Happy Reading!

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Summary: An Incredible Book!
Review: My title pretty much says it all. I've read some incredible books, and few match up to this. I look forward to reading other Orson Scott Card books, which is precisely why I'm online.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Of course, I will always be a bigger and better fan of Bean and his 'adventures' (bleh) in Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon, you can't read one without the other. Insightful, heart-tearing, honest and fun, this book is everything other science fiction books AREN'T!

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Summary: the coolest book!
Review: this is a great science book in the world. i usually hate science fiction books, but this is an exception. my friend introduced me to these books and a week later i had boughten the whole series! they're really freat!