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Summary: Excellent! But.....
Review: This book was totally AWESOME! Not only does it have a very interesting and unique stting and story line, but Orson Scott Card is able to reflect the feelings inside poor little Ender very well. It is my favorite science fiction bood, BUT, it had the stupidest ending about how the buggers were killed!
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Summary: enjoyable but not excellent
Review: In case this is the first review you encounter, here is a brief summary: Ender is one of many children specially bred and selected for a special school that trains superb tacticians. Of the school's hundreds of students he is the brightest. The story reflects his struggles with the school's harsh learning conditions, the interactions with admiring and envious peers, and his anguish at knowing his strategic skills will one day be used to attempt to genocide an alien race of invaders. The characters are very believable and the storyline is engrossing.
Unfortunately, my criticisms require SPOILING the story. If you intend to read the book, don't go any further. I have two criticisms of the story elements. First, I found it difficult to accept that all of Ender's brilliant tactics had never been tried before. Surely an eighty-year school with hundreds of specially raised geniuses would have produced a great number of students able to innovate. I'm certain I could never have devised all of Ender's battle tactics on my own, but I may have been able to invent one or two. I refuse to believe that none of the other students had similar ideas.
Second, the use of a queen creature as the ultimate leader and secret weakness of the enemy is a weak plot element. There is a multitude of shows, books, and games that use this idea: the enemy force as a whole is super powerful, except for one central command creature/computer/ship. Destroy that, and you win. This done-to-death plot technique really disappointed me. If I could, I would give it 3.5 stars
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Summary: Ender's Game is an incredable book
Review: I have to say that I loved this book, it was very in depth and well written. I have read several of Card's books and I have loved them all, though I do believe I liked Ender's Game the best. Ender is a very complex character that once you read through the book, you can't help but feel sorry for him and a little freaked out. The way Ender does things is to win in one fight, he doesn't draw it out, it just takes one. The things he does at his young age, in the book, are unbelievable. Card puts other sci-fi writers to shame with this book.
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Summary: More "Fi" than "Sci"
Review: Pity poor Ender Wiggin, the boy who would be mankind's savior. Isolated by destiny and his teachers, forced to study and learn the art of war instead of playing the games of childhood, bearing the hopes of mankind on the slight shoulders of his youth; this is Ender's fate.
Despite odds that make David versus Goliath look like a pick 'em fight, Ender not only survives, but thrives. The Battle Room becomes his sanctuary, enemies become friends, teachers become students. Destroying the Buggers and ending the threat to Earth occupy everything Ender does, and he finds himself thinking like them, even identifying with them.
Can Ender kill the Buggers? Save mankind? Save himself? In this wonderful example of the writer's craft, Orson Scott Card draws you in, makes you feel Ender's emotional rollercoaster, and delivers a blockbuster look into the very core of the human psyche.
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Summary: Fantasy at it's Best!
Review: I've never been captured by a book before. However this book grabbed my imagination and took me into Ender's world. I felt his pain, his agony, his confusion and a part of his genuis. I was apart of Ender, and Ender was a part of me. When you find yourself in the world of imagination and everything seems so real, yet the only passage way to that world is the book that you are reading, then you know that it is a very good book. Orson Scott Card's book entitled Ender's Game, was a passage for me into my world of imagination. It is a very good book.
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Summary: A Precocious Predicament
Review: What Earth needs, is a hero. A genius hero, and fast. How is a genius created, and be made a hero against one's will? To save the Earth, must a genius be taught, and desire to kill? Mustn't a hero empathize with the enemy, to know them better than they know themselves? What if the enemy can do the same? What must be done to unlock superior potential? In a future military state worldwide, Andrew Wiggin was unorthodoxly authorized to improve upon his siblings' best qualities. He was breed to have his brother Peter's intelligence and cunning and his sister Valentine's manner and instinct. Ender, as he calls himself, is a genius among geniuses, which is why he is chosen for the elite Battle School training. Having been antagonized by others, especially Peter, all through his life, Ender would have gladly left Earth for the Battle School; if not for the reciprocal love of Valentine. At the school, Ender is purposely thrown against one adversary situation after another, thoroughly defeating each one. The school has studies of the art of war, but most importantly, it has the Battle Rooms: 0-G combat simulators. For the purpose of interstellar war and challenge of Ender's abilities, he is advanced through training and the school itself all too quickly. In doing so, has lost his soul? In the mean time, Peter and Valentine may destroy what Ender is trying to protect. Now the human race rests upon the shoulders of a pre-adolescent, whether Ender knows it or not. Ender's Game is a cerebral infusion of the tortured, grown up mind of Ender. He is constantly manipulated, which brings out many different things in him, and the reader, every time. Indifference, anger, resolve, respect, remorse, guilt, and sometimes joy. Ender's Game (paperback author's definite edition) is not like the Sci-fi genre, but a plunge into the motive and conscience of a deep protagonist. This book rests on the empathy of the reader to accept volatile minds in children. Unfortunately, if you immerse yourself too far (as it's very possible) into the characters, some of the intended, unpredictable shocks may be deadened. The introduction gives much insight into the author. This book is great for all readers and those looking for something new; although the following series requires adroit interest in all aspects of the novel. Ender's Game is definitely worth enjoying.
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. I think everyone should read it, especialy people who love science fiction. The first couple chapters are kind of boring, but it gets better later in the book. Take the time to read this book it's very good.
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Summary: Wiggin out over how good it is.
Review: I hesitated reading this book for YEARS because I had already read the short story, and figured that knowing the ending would ruin the book, but Scott Card has made the story much more robust and added many subplots that weren't there in the original. Plus the added little twist at the end that makes you question your impression of the aliens. I found it thorougly enjoyable and look forward to Speaker For the Dead.
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Summary: Harry Potter meets the Starship Troopers!
Review: This book rocks! Ender is a small boy who is picked on by a bigger brother and some students in his school. He is quite the genious and it is obvious that he has great potential. He is being observed by the military to see if he is a good candidate to become an army commander and fight a war against an alien race of bugs. The training he goes through is intense and exciting to read. It involves a bunch of games that teach him military strategy as he must earn the respect of others in his school and proove that he is a great leader. There is a lot of cleverness in the way these games are played. This must be one of the greatest science fiction books ever written.
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Summary: Hated it
Review: I know everyone seems to love this book, but I hated it! It isn't "science" fiction (like A.C. Clark books), but fiction. I could not suspend my belief THAT much to appreciate what the pre-pubescent main character could do. Perhaps I'm too old (30?). I think this book appeals to pre-high school kids, but it did nothing for me.
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