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Summary: Read it for the story
Review: Card is certainly gifted in his imagination. Unfortunately, you have to make your way through some very heavy-handed prose and cookie-cutter characters before you can start enjoying the story. Once you get beyond that, however, the story is truly captivating, and you can even suspend your disbelief that even super-genius children would behave in such a way. Beware, if you're a sci-fi fan, it will get you hooked, especially since the following books, Card begins to show a little more finess in his writing style.
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Summary: AWESOME BOOK!!!
Review: This book was awesome. Ender starts as a six-year-old kid living a not at all normal life because he is a genius and a third, which generally isn't allowed. But ender was bred specifically to save the world from the buggers. Ender is just what the army needs - a commander. Ender is sent to battle school and is trained to be a military genius. By the end of the book ender has turned 11 but I wont say any more because that would give it away and everybody on the planet needs to read this because although it is a science fiction book, ender is a very emotional kid even though he has to grow up to kill billions of buggers from outer space. This book is packed with things that you don't expect so it is not one of those books that you know by the first half of the book how it is going top end. This book keeps adding new twists, which make you think that it will never end, but eventually it does sadly because all books have to end, which sometimes stinks because you want them to keep going and going. Anyway, this book is awesome so if you are you looking for a good read you have found it because other than Tamora Pierce and Avi, Orson Scott Card is now my favorite author because of this book!!!! (Oh ... Richard Adams is also an awesome author.) READ THIS BOOK!!!!
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Summary: The Best Book Ever
Review: Ender's Game is a chilingly realistic novel about a young boy, ender, who goes to fight an alien race called the buggers. His adventures bring him to asteroids, and space stations. Although the plot may seem somewwhat drab from this description, the best part is the writing style of Orson Scott Card. He explains anti-gravity orientation so well, it nearly makes you sick. The fight scenes are graphically depicted, and the ideas for war are increadable. At the end of the book, metaphors flood the text and review nearly the whole book. The ending keeps you wondering and the entire book stays with you for your entire life. If there was only one word I would use to describe this book, it would be "perfect".
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Summary: CARD AT HIS BEST BY: CVD GRADE:5
Review: This story takes place mainly in Outer Space. The main character is Ender Wiggin a very capable six year old. Ender is a normal boy, except for the fact that he was born a third child(considered a great humiliation by most.He is a genius among geniuses and the army is looking to recruit him. Ender excels in Battle School(a school that prepares students for intergalactic war).He gets promoted to commander. Will he go power mad like the others, or end up getting recruited by the army and ending a hyperbolically inexpressibly devaststing war.
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Summary: Ender¿s Game
Review: Ender's Game is an awesome book. When I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. Orson Scott Card just drew me in. I was amazed how the kids are so intelligent. In the book, Peter, Ender's brother, has a major influence over world events when he is fourteen. It has all the essential parts of a great novel. Ender's Game has an amazing plot, and is very interesting. Card is very detailed about everything. I liked how he put so much detail in Ender's virtual game. Card explained it like if you were playing it. I started the book, and was required to read it in a couple weeks, and ended up reading it in three days. It is a very detailed science fiction book. The stuff in this book was science fiction, so it probably wouldn't happen now. But it could in the future. I think that in the future we could go live on a different planet like Ender does. I haven't read the other books in the series, but I hope that they are all as good as or better than this one.
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Summary: Uneven read
Review: It was a real page-turner. The charm of the book lays mostly in character development (Ender's and Valentina's - others are mostly cardboard) and vivid and somewhat gruesome descriptions on the here-and-now events. The book is flawed though by the mostly linear storyline and sickeningly melodramatic ending with an Alaska-sized logical hole. Nevertheless, quite recommended for the fans of hero-based sci-fi.
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Summary: The Best Book in the World.
Review: I'll make this short. This is an awesome book about human emotion, leadership, isolation, friendship, and a very amazing book in terms of awesome story, amazingly well writen and described, and a great insight on human behavior. It is a Sci-Fi book, but I think anyone would like it. It is just amazingly well writen and descriptive.It starts with a six year old boy, Ender, being sent to battle school to learn to be commander of teh fleets against a third alien envasion of the 'buggers.' He goes through greuling training, trying to make friends, being isolated, hated, and minipulated. It is a great story, and awesome book, it can't be partly explained in all it's majesty, I cannot begin to describe how great this book is. So Read it!
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Summary: Engrossing, humanistic, an essential sci-fi fantasy
Review: Card is perhaps the best genre writer working today, as this novel amply demonstrates. Ender's Game is a bildungsroman, or coming of age story, of a very young military genius, Ender Wiggin. At the tender age of six, Ender is recruited by the powers-that-be for battle training in hopes that he can be molded into the leader who will destroy the dreaded alien invaders It may be helpful to compare this book to Robert Heinlein's classic Starship Troopers, which has some broad similarities of plot. Troopers has strong a basis in the sciences, both military and social. Card leans more toward fantasy; his real fascination is with human beings and their feelings, not with the technical details of how the hardware works. So if you're the kind of sci-fi fan who reads a book hoping to learn something about physics, dig out an old Asimov book instead - Card's not your man. Also, the hero in the typical Heinlein juvenile is not only super-smart (like Ender's characters) but they are often "gee-whiz", "can-do" types for whom everything always seems to just fall into place. Ender, on the other hand, is often conflicted, frequently miserable, and constantly manipulated. One reason this book is so long is that Ender seldom has an easy victory - instead he has to fight his battles over and over until he finally wins. And while Heinlein's ingénues always have an older comrade to mentor them, Ender is intentionally forced to learn everything the hard way - by himself. Card is so skillful at making us sympathize with poor Ender's plight that we can't wait to see him jump the next hurdle. We care about his fate with an intensity that is almost unknown in genre fiction, which is probably why so many reviewers claim that this novel is really serious literature. While that seems a bit much, there's no denying that for sheer entertainment value, this book beats 3 out of 4 "literary classics". Accessible enough for younger readers, but too intense for children, this is a book that practically everyone will enjoy. Don't miss out on one of the greatest sci-fi/fantasies ever.
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Summary: Great read on all levels
Review: If you're looking for a quick, light read; or you're looking for a serious, well-written piece of literature; or you're looking for a fictional treatise on leadership and command; or you're looking for a socially-charged essay about the dangers of charismatic leaders and clashes of cultures - this is a GREAT choice. Card created a fantastic - maybe even unique - work in Ender's Game. From a military perspective, only the scenery and technology is unfamiliar - set as it is in a time far in the future. Otherwise, the book could be a textbook on extreme leadership challenges. In fact, it was recommended to me while I was attending a military leadership school. And it was better than any of the assigned textbooks or practical exercises. Not "into" the military - don't fret. There's enough anti-establishment, anti-violence undertone in the book's message to tickle anyone's imagination. Highly recommended, and couldn't agree LESS with the reviewer who complained about the book's message. It's not about the virtue of child labor - it's about the virtue of a childlike sense of loyalty and adventure, a child's willingness to take risks, a child's love of the "game". And, most of all, it's a serious message about the contrasts between intelect and experience.
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Summary: A Work of Amazing Power
Review: There has been a few times in my life that a book has hit me so hard that it almost left me staggering from the blow. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is one of those books. It is so full of insight and amazingly developed characters that it feels real. This is despite the fact that the main characters are very young children with intellects that are higher than your average adult. The story takes place in Earth's future. The planet has been attacked several times by an alien race known as the "buggers." The attacks took place years before the novel opens, and the surviving humans fear that another may occur soon. Since humanity won the last war by a stroke of luck, they are trying to find a leader that will have the fortitude and skill to win the next war. They search for these leaders among the children of Earth. This is where Ender Wiggin comes into play. It is determined that he might have the ability to be "the one" that could rise up to defeat the aliens. The book is all about this discovery. I would not want to give away any of the delicious plot of this incredible novel. Suffice it to say that it is a dark and sinister work full of suspense. It is not a book to begin at night in bed unless you plan on getting no sleep. It is simply impossible to put down. The premise almost sounds laughable. Believe me, it isn't. Card's greatest strength is character development. If you go into this book expecting typical "action" you will not get what you are anticipating. It is not a simple "fight the aliens" book. It is full of deep meaning, and it spoke straight to my heart. I identified with the main characters so much it was scary. The themes and motifs in this novel stay with you. It is impossible for this review to do the book justice. I, honestly, often tell people about it when I am browsing in a bookstore and find another person looking for a novel standing beside me. I have caused several strangers to by the book because of the praise I give it. I think everyone should read it. Even if you do not like science fiction, you would like this book. It is honestly my second favorite book of ALL TIME, and, trust me, I have read more than your average bookworm.
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