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Summary: GREAT READ!
Review: This is one great book! I read it in 3 days and I am only 13! In my school it is consered a classic along side "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and " David Copperfield". (And i thought ALL classics were boring) I recomend this to absolutely everyone, even if you hate science fiction.
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Summary: Ender's life
Review: Ender's Game is about a six-year old boy who is put through harsh trianing to become a general for the world. The world has been in a hundred year war with the buggers. The government controls how many kids a family can have. The childern are also monitored by the government from when they are born to when they are about six years old. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin has had his monitor in longer than both his sister and brother. This makes his brother jealous and he is very mean to Ender. The government takes Ender from his family and takes him to a space station where he begins his training to become a general. The government has a fleet of starships going to the buggers home planet and when they get there they need someone to lead them to a victory. Ender learns about the previous wars and is trained in simulated battles. The instructors of the school pushes him to the max. He becomes a genreal for the simulated wars at a very young age. As the training gets harder every day he becomes isolated from the world and his friends at the school. He finds him self fighting battles on a screen, but soon finds that he his really controling the fleet that is fighting the buggers. Ender does not know how long he can take this punishment for and he will soon find that it is almost over. This book was very inspiring. The harsh training that Ender goes through is really amazing. The author gives great detail and imagery. The author really gets into Ender's thoughts and this can be disturbing and inspiring at the same time. This book is a great book for anyone who wants to go into another world.
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Summary: A must read for any age
Review: Ender's Game is a must-read for any reader. The book, which is set in the near future and follows the point of view of a child prodigy named Ender. We follow Ender from his departure from his family on Earth to watching him become the best soldier ever seen in Battle School, an academy for fellow child prodigies. The descriptions of the events that happen throughout the novel are both very intellectually insightful and emotionally moving. The ending of the novel is nothing less than amazing.Many people have come back to revisit Ender's Game because of Card's newest "Shadow" novels. If you've not yet read Ender's Game and are considering reading any of the Shadow boooks first, DON'T! Ender's Game is my far the best of any of these books, and reading Ender's Shadow (which is not as good of a novel) will ruin this book if you ever decide to read it. For those of you debating whether or not to purchase is book, I highly recommend doing so. I've found myself rereading it many times.
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Summary: Flawless Science Fiction
Review: Any fan of scifi really owes it to themselves to read it. Card's excecution of the plot is right on mark. It's original, has a few really decent surprises, and can totally take you out of your world and put you in Ender's. I'm hard pressed to think of an easier read and, beyond that, it has substance too. Perfect. If you like it, don't necessarily jump to the conlusion that you'd like to read the rest of the quartet though. The storyline changes into a much more philosophical mode in the other books. The Shadow series however is much more akin to Ender's Game, and you may like it more.
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Summary: An Extremely Interesting Book!!!!
Review: Ender's Game is an extremely good book. You grow to love all of the characters. Orson Scott Card has a talent for writing, he keeps you wondering what will happen next, so you keep reading, then you find something else out and you got find somemore things out and the next thing you know, you finished the whole book. Ender is a real person, you can feel his pain, know what he's thinking, but you never know what he will do next. he has emotions, disappointments, and complications in his life. I've read the book three times already and every time I find something that I didn't know.
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Summary: Not bad. Not great, but not bad.
Review: Ender's game is a VERY well written book about a six-year old prodigy who is selected by the government to become a soldier. Though he is an outcast at school, he excels in his new home where a series of games are designed to teach the children how to fight a war against the mysterious "Buggers". As Ender and his friends begin the fight, they face trials beyond anything they could have imagined in their old, mundane homes on earth. Attacks on the plot are very much unfounded. There ARE six-year old geniuses. Many of them grow up playing chess and become grandmasters. Some work on mathematics, though these people typically lose much of their talent as they grow older. Many focus on music. It is not outlandish to think that child prodigies could be turned into soldiers, if they were made to focus on that subject. As the book goes on the differences between civilian and military life are made clear to the reader. The tactics and strategies that Ender uses are all believable and powerful. The characters, for the most part, are very good. Yet a serious knock on the book remains that removes the book from a fifth star-Ender's intelligence is often variable. Some problems exist on the school (which is deep in outer space) that make it obvious that the school is not what it appears. Though these problems are later explained away, it appears that Ender did not catch them immediately. If Ender was so intelligent (he took physics and trig. when he was six) why did he not realize that something was amiss? For someone who took physics (or, indeed, had basic logic at his command) why would he not have noticed these obvious problems with the station? Ender also does not realize that the "game" he plays is actually real, and not a simple simulation. This flaw prevents Ender's Game from becoming the classic that it really should be. Nonetheless, it is an excellent book that definitely deserves serious attention, and should be read by anyone even remotely interested in Science Fiction or Military Tactics.
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Summary: Andrew Rosner's Review of the Best Book Ever Written
Review: Ender's Game is one of the best books I have ever read. I was attached to the book like leach. The author, Orson Scott Card is an amazing sci-fi writer. In fact I envy this book's 1st time readers. His plot was ingenious! This author's detail is absolutely amazing. The story line Card followed was the most brilliant I've ever had experience with. He turned the old, want to save the world and become a hero plot into a story you never want to stop reading. I'll admit it, I don't read a lot of books. Most of the time I don't even read the books we are assigned to read in class. But this book is different, I actually wanted to read it. The only other book that could even come close to being judged on the same scale as this book would be a Redwall series book, which I also highly recommend. But if you want a book to enjoy, pick this one, i promise you, it will be worth it.
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Summary: Best Book You'll Ever Read
Review: Ok, one more review probably won't matter... But what the hell! This is by far the best book I have ever read topped off by a series that is pretty dang good. The first novel is definitely the masterpiece!
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Summary: enders Game is fun
Review: Enders Game is a pure thrill ride. There is action in every corner. Ender Wigin is a super genius that has got the fate of the whole world in his hands. The 'buggers' have attached the world twice and almost wiped out the human race. Now the government chose Ender to be the high commander to halt the buggers in the next invasion. Ender has gone to battle school and is obviously the best of the best, but he is only nine years old. Ender has the smarts and the passion to win but the only thing holding him back is his sadistic brother Peter who keeps coming up in the games he plays at battle school. If Ender can get past his fears he might be able to save the entire planet, as well as his beloved sister Valentine who he has always loved. Without the help of the teachers and having few friends he learns to be the best out there. But is he good enough? You will have to see for yourself.
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Summary: A Must-Read For Sci-Fi Fans -- I Couldn't Put It Down!
Review: Ender's Game is awesome! It is the best science fiction book I've ever read. Most of them get tedious and too confusing to follow, but Ender's Game, when not cliff-hanging action, developed a complex, yet followable plot. The characters were so real it's like they exist, and their feelings leave me emotional, like I have experience them too. On such nights when I can't sleep, my mind often drifts to Ender, and what he had to go through, just because he was a genius, yet still a soft-hearted boy, who was manipulated by person after person, often unfairly, and jerked away from his life, however unhappy, when he was only six and sent to a tough school where the manipulative adults tried to make it hardest for him. Shuttled from place after place, through training in hopes he will save the planet, Ender grows up and becomes tough and hard-bitten when he was younger than me, yet still buried deep down is the little boy who never wanted to hurt anyone. One of the saddest parts, for me, was when Ender was finally allowed to visit and talk with his much loved older sister Valentine. At one point, she reached out to tickle him, like she used to in his youth, when they played and had fun. Ender, who has lived through vicious attacks by fellow students, quickly grabs her arm to defend himself before he remembers it was just a game. The world Ender and his family lives in is a sad world, filled with power-hungry people who constantly fear an attack from the alien "buggers" that almost destroyed Earth before. Innocent children with the bad luck to be gifted, like Ender, are forced to train rigorously to save the country which barely seems worth saving. My heart goes out to the magnificent characters created by an author who is surely gifted himself, and I urge any reader to get this book.
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