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Summary: Ender's Game Rules!
Review: One day, my friend recommeded me this book. I followed his advice, and it was worth it. Ender's Game shows how the underdogs can win and how tough military school is. All he characters did very good jobs of being themselves, espeicially Ender and Valentine. I am looking forward to reading Speaker of the Dead, the sequal. You have no reason not to read this book....
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Summary: Great stuff - a classic
Review: Mark Twain said of classics that they are books that people praise but do not read. Ender's Game is different because people read it in their droves.This is a wonderful book for readers who are young in years or young in heart, and appeals in the same way as the White Mountains Trilogy or Harry Potter appeals. The issues surrounding bullying and life in a highly competitive school environment are relevant to all school age kids. The way the kids are manipulated by adults right to the end also strikes a chord. But to be a classic a book has to appeal to the adult reader. Despite some thorny issues surrounding the use of children to fight war, this is undoubtedly a book with a wide base of appeal amongst adult readers. The success of Ender's game is reflected in the number of sequels that have appeared. This is a great book, and a really enjoyable and well told story. What I do believe is that we will see many characters like Demosthenes and Locke blossom on the internet discussion groups, as the net becomes a more coherent medium. To a certain extent Enders Game might represent a view of our own future!
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Summary: Not Just For Sci-Fi Fans
Review: Ender's Game is not "Just another science fiction book". It is a compelling military saga that demonstrates why during time of war we must be willing to sacrifice the few to save the many. They are the children. Ender and his friends (enemies) are spending their childhoods preparing for the final showdown between humanity and an apocolyptic force of insect/aliens. But the book is not about the war, it is about preparing. Ender must constantly train playing video games and "laser tag" type games. I know it doesn't seem to exciting to read about 8 year olds playing laser tag, but the purpose of the games is to develop strategy. The reader will sit through a dozen games in a row, but you are always wanting more because of the strategy. What will Ender think of next. How will he turn the opponent's strengths into weakness, and his own weakness into strength? Aside from the excitement of the Game, the story also provides a great deal of perspective on military protocol: Why it is necessary to follow rules at all times, and why it is necessary to break those rules. Ender is a tool of the military, he has no identity of his own, he exists only to serve the cause of humanity. There is also a pretty neat subplot with Ender's brother and sister who are still on Earth. It deals primarily with using media to produce a void in the collective conscience of our civilization. If you cultivate the void and wait for the correct moment, you can fill it with whatever you think it should be filled with, people become sheep to your shepard. To counterbalance the scourge of war, characters also explore ethical and philosophical questions the actions they will be forced to take in battle: we have to kill these innocents in order to save those innocents. And after the Sci-Fi technology, the military, and the ethics, the author wallops the reader over the head with a shock that will leave you spinning for days. Remember how you felt the first time you heard who Luke's father was, or in the "Ususal Suspects" when you realized who Kaiser Sose' was? This is that same kind of feeling.
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Summary: An Incredible Book
Review: Dustin M.
October 2, 2000
The Book was outstanding, a very compelling story, good charactor development, and just plain fun to read. My friends recommended the book and I had no idea what I was in for. Ender Wiggin is amazing and the suprise ending was really a suprise. In one store I found it in the Fiction section, but in another I found it in the Sci-Fi section. Its not really a sci-fi book, but more of a plain fiction book. Orson Scott Card has outdone himself and there are four books to the series of Ender, not to mention a Parrel universe story. My self, I am working on Speaker for the dead" , also very good. A must read for any book lover!
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Summary: What can I say?
Review: This is simply the best book I've ever read and an absolute favorite. It deserves all the recognition it gets and more.
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Summary: Unbeliveable
Review: I was blown away by this book. OSC(the author) is the best sci-fi author in a long time. As an avid fan of sci-fi books, i have read nearly every one. EG, however tops them all. From what i have heard, and my personal experiance, this book touches everyone who reads it in a very personal way. The charecters are done so well, that you fall in love with them. So take my advice, and the other people who reviewed it advice, and buy this book. I garennte you will like it.
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Summary: One of the Classics
Review: If you want an engaging, philosophical, spellbinding look into the future of warfare and psychology, look no further. This book is a masterpiece of storytelling, with a plot that is at once beautifully fantastic and shockingly real. I can imagine this happening, can you? You will, after you read this book.
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Summary: This book got me back into reading novels again
Review: I haven't had the opportunity to read a good book for a long time. I found a list online listing the top 100 fantasy/sci fi books, and the Ender series was listed as #3. I just finished the first book, Ender's Game. WOW. Amazing book. It's not so much a Sci-Fi book (which sci-fi's tend to bore me) as it is a case-study on an incredibly intelligent superkid, and his dealings with the same sorts of personal problems that every kid his age tend to get (well, to an extent anyway). PICK THIS UP. Read it! It's a quick and easy read, and it's worth it!!
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Summary: The best Sci-Fi i'v ever read!
Review: Ender's Game is the fits book in a set of five. This is a book that takes place at about 3550. Everything is perfect, except Ender is a third. At this time there is no hunger, because the goverment has put out population laws. Over the last fifty years, Earth has been attacked twice by aliens (Buggers).Ender's oldest sibling,Peter is always beating him up. Valentine is caring and loving to him.The I.F. (International Federation) is afread that the Buggers will attack again.They are demanding that some families (such as Ender's) have a third. They need military genuis, Peter is too rough and Valentine is too gentle.Ender(hopefuly) is half and half. I.F. needs Ender for the last(mabey) game.I greatly rnjoyed this book because it is witty and humerous.I think it compares with Gone With the Wind.
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Summary: Sci-fi for people who think they don't like sci-fi
Review: I don't consider myself a science fiction fan, but there are a few exceptions. This is one of them. It's a book about ethics more than anything. It's a quick and easy read but leaves you with a lot to think about. Ender is an excellent character -- so much so, that I was inspired to read the other books in the series.
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