Ender's Game

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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read
Review: This book was great!!!!!!!!,even though Card never developed any other characters besids Graff and Ender(maybe a little bit of his brother and sister too). It had a greta plot and the batles and the last fight was really cool. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. It wasn't what I think Ender wouldv'e done. Other than that the book was really good.

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Summary: Ender's Trials
Review: Ender's Review

The world of Sci-Fi has always been original, gripping, and intense. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card is no exception. The novel is set in the not to distant future, where the world has ventured into the realm of space flight. We meet our main character early in the novel, Ender Wiggin. Ender comes from a gifted family blessed with intelligence and the ability to lead. Ender is an extremely talented young man, who has anger control problems. He has a brother who abuses him and parents who ignore him. This make him an obvious prospect for the Imperial Fleet, or IF. The IF is earth's military fleet, burdened with the responsibility of defending Earth from the "Buggers". The IF is comprised of gifted and talented young children who could survive the long journeys of space flight. These children are broken down and molded into efficient fighters and pilots. The Buggers are the human race's newest enemy, a species run by a queen much like an insect infestation. Ender is chosen by the IF to be the next leader who will save humanity from total annihilation. Despite the danger of the Buggers on the horizon we come to see that the real threat is from within. Ender is sent to a "training" school in space for new cadets. The school is a weeding out process that pits the students against each other to see the strongest survive. Through his trails at command school Ender develops into a person, a leader, and humanity's last chance. The novel is extremely interesting and captivating. You will not be able to put down this novel until you discover its shocking conclusion. Ender's Game is written from the point of view of several different narrators. Sometimes we see through Ender's eyes, others through a supporting character, and sometimes from a third person narrative. For being only 324 pages, the novel is surprisingly deep, creative, and well written. I found that seeing the future through a child's eyes was very thought provoking. Although he is in the middle of a war and being constantly tested, he seems to start innocent and slowly come to understand the horrors of interstellar war. Being a fan of Sci-Fi, I found it interesting to see the future in a negative light. I am accustomed to seeing humanity portrayed at its pinnacle of enlightenment and understanding of the universe. To see humans committing the same mistakes we have committed in our past helped me see what can happen if humanity doesn't learn from our mistakes. In this dark future we have become xenophobes who fear the buggers because they are different. Corrupt individuals control the world and people are controlled by propaganda and militarism. In a way it reminds me of many wars fought in our pass. The difference here is the nature of the conflict being in space, and that humans face complete extinction. I would recommend this novel to anyone who wants to see the future of humanity shown from an open and honest perspective. The novel has received high praised and has been honored with both the Hugo and Nebula awards. I recommend getting this book and it is well worth its cost. If you enjoy this book you can continue into the series because Ender's game has many sequels, prequels and parallel novels. Go buy this book. Now!

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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, is a science fiction book that takes place a couple hundred years in the future. It is about a little boy named Ender who is rejected by his family because he is what is called a "third" or third born. That makes him an outcast. Despite his lack of friends, Ender is a genius, and he is sent off to a school in space to learn to become a commander to fight the "buggers" that tried to invade earth twice in years previously. He goes through many challenges that the teachers at the school throw at him, and it soon becomes evident to everyone that he is indeed the best of the best. In the book, Card is trying to explain why people act the way they do. Throughout the story, Ender is isolated from his family, and grows up in a different atmosphere than his brother and sister. That causes him to become a completely different person from the people in his family. At the space school, he is taught that victory, no matter what the costs, is all that matters. By living in that type of atmosphere, he learns that to be true, and that has great effects on how he acts throughout the book. The characters are very well defined. Card uses a third person-narrator that switches between the minds of different people at different times. The reader is always able to tell what each character is feeling and why. He or she then knows almost everything about each character that is needed for a storng plot. This book was written in 1977, so it is a little out-dated. For instance, there are many references to the Warsaw Pact, which was created by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Since the Soviet Union fell and the Warsaw Pact no longer exists, it is obvious that this book is a little behind what is happening today. Other than that, it has an excellent futuristic setting. The reader is also able to relate to Ender in many ways. Ender is always the outcast no matter where he is because of his intelligence. When Ender first enters the school, the people he came with leave him isolated because the man in charge of the school was constantly praising him on the flight there. Rejection, like with Ender, is a very common thing in the world today and the reader always knows how Ender feels when he finds himself in positions where he is looked down upon. I think that this is an excellent book. It is easy to read, and once you start reading, it is hard to stop. This type of book is very captivating and interesting, and I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read science fiction.

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Summary: Journey to a time
Review: Journey to a time where Earth is corrupt,where small boys are sent into the military at the early age of 7, and told nothing of the truth. Human's, paranoid in fear of a huge alien race have disbanded themselves once again and split off into smaller factionns. In this excciting scifi thriller, card takes us deep into the bowels of spaace and back out again. Wonderfully descriptive and good for any rainy day.

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Summary: Wonderful addictive (science) fiction
Review: Once I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down. What more can you ask from a book? The story of Ender and the games he is forced to play is fascinating. Earth in the future has been nearly destroyed by hostile aliens, and human beings are in a race to find the perfect general who will save them from the third invasion. Ender is a child genius who is snatched up at the tender age of six and enrolled in an ultra-compeditive military academy where the primary education is through zero-gravity tactical combat. Is he earth's savior?

What makes this novel so great is the author's frequent insights into the souls of his characters, and how any philosophy or moral arguments the author might have are presented through action and conflict instead of lengthy dialog (except for a few boring scenes between Ender's bright siblings). Author Orsen Scott Card manages to make Ender convincing as a super genius by writing him as a six year old with adult intelligence (however, this "cheating" will catch up with Card in the next books). The ending is anticlimaxic, and the science is downright laughable - if humans almost got wiped out 60 years ago, why is Earth overpopulated?!? At best this is fantasy writing in a futuristic setting. Still, what sets in my mind is the meat of the book, those fascinating zero-gravity games where Ender matches wits with the best time and time again. Check this book out, it is worth the read.

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Summary: it was a good book!
Review: In Ender's Game, Ender is taken from his home to a military base in space where he learns to become a soldier. He learns how to become friends with other soldiers and become a leader. Ender and his fellow soldiers help each other. The Comander makes Ender a leader of his own patrol. Ender and his patrol play training games and simulation game. In the simulation game, Ender and his patrol fight aliens and try to kill them so they take over the aliens home planet. In the end, Ender finds out that he has been tricked and has really killed the aliens. After the war, Ender see's his family and his sister writes a book about him and he won the war.

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Summary: End Game! Ender Wins! Play Again?
Review: Ender is a genious and, in my opinon, a saviour to planet Earth, but he doesn't know either of these. The book has a difficult challenge of balence and rightness. Mess with a boy who could save Earth from aleins, or would that be injust. I think in the end it's evened out to say, "Okay, ether we all die, including the boy, or toughen him up so he can save us all." But why fight? Is it just out of fear that if you don't destroy them, they'll destroy you? If you isolate the boy too long or too short will he break down? It's a delacate balace with a surprise ending that makes this book impossible to put down.

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Summary: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Review: Battle combat in zero gravity. Saving the world from alien extermination. To many these may start to sound like some sort of Star Wars rendition of The Matrix, but when the hero of the story is merely seven years old, things take a more interesting twist. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game follows the life of innocent Ender, barely out of toddler-hood, who is recruited into the military in order to train for combat against a force of ant-like aliens known as the Buggers. At an early young age, Ender is thrown into a school of other children like him whose training consists of strategic battle combat and survival. Immersed in an intense world full of deception, jealousies, and competition, it no longer becomes clear who is the real enemy, and Ender's only chance of survival is to strive to be the best. The book, winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, does not have the same level of complicated terminology or background common in science fiction novels that only confuses readers; instead Card used simplistic, straightforward narration to follow the dramatic trials that Ender must endure in order to remain alive. The actions and interactions between characters are realistically portrayed, leaving readers completely involved in the complex relationships so true to human nature. This book, a must-read, is a classic that is soon to appear on the silver screen. And Ender's adventures do not end there; Ender's Game becomes the first book in an extremely successful series of 7 novels by Card that remains one of the best loved in America, ensuring an entire summer of stimulating reading.

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Summary: This book is awesome!! (J.T.Hansen)
Review: I really loved this book! If you read this book I definitely suggest you read Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Orson Scott Card is definitely my all-time favorite author. While I read this book, I really got to know Ender. I felt like I had known him my whole life. He conveyed his characters feelings very well, all of them. The only thing I didn't like about this book was the chapter entiltled Locke and Demosthenes(I don't remember what chapter number it was). The second time I read the book I just skipped the chapter. Almost the whole chapter is just boring talking between Peter and Valentine. That is my least favorite part of the book. I also didn't like the part where Ender is back on Earth and Valentine visits him and they talk for almost the whole chapter. It gets fairly boring but it's not nearly as bad as Locke and Demosthenes. FOr all of the chapters where Ender is at the Battle School and Command School, it is a very exciting book. One thing I wish Orson Scott Card did would have been to go into more detail durung the battles is the Battle Room. I haven't read Ender's Shadow yet but I'm hoping he uses more detail in that book. My favorite part in the whole book is when Ender goes commander at age nine and he is training his completely green army for the first time. I have also read Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker books and those are also very good books. All in all, I say if your thinking about reading Ender's Game, read it!

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Summary: GO Ender!!
Review: Ender Wiggins was the character that could attract any child to want to live his life. As he housed the skills of strength and smarts to save the earth he became an automatic superhero that you had to root for. I feel this book should be on the list for younger students everywhere. It is a novel that could attract so many students to a world of reading for fun. By Ender being this military genious, takes us into a world of imagination that we can't get enough of.