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Summary: .Just as bad as Potter, oops I mean good.Smashing for SCi-Fi
Review: Ender's Game is the first book in a series of five. This is way in the future. Everything is perfect, except Ender is a thired. At this time there are population laws. Ender's oldest siblimg, Peter, is always beating him up.His sister, Valentine, loves and cares for him.The world has been attacked twice by aliens,the Buggers. I.F.(International Fleet) is afead that they will attach again.So they need military genuis, because the last time one military genuis saved them.Ender's siblings are not the right type. Peter is too rough, and yet Valentine is too soft. So the I.F. is hoping Ender is in the middle. They need Ender for the last(mabey) game.I greatly enjoyed this book,because it is suspensful and humerous.
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Summary: Excellent, must-read book!
Review: I haven't really read much science-fiction books... I don't really enjoy the technicality of them: the fantasy genre took me over with "The Golden Compass" by Phillip Pullman. My Honors English teacher recommened this book to anyone who likes Fantasy. Although skeptical at first, (I judge a book by it's cover,) I was very impressed. The story is very powerful and intresting, I can relate to it. I am a happy owner of both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow: the Hardcover editions!
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Summary: A very good Sci-Fi Book
Review: I had been looking for some good science fiction to read for some time when I bought "Ender's Game". I bought the book on a Sunday and started reading it about 2:00 - I didn't stop reading it until I had finished it after midnight, even though I had to get up early and work the next day. It is the first book that I ever really 'just couldn't put down' and read 'cover to cover'. The book has a lot of things going for it. The story is fast-paced, and I found myself wanting to see what would happen next. The writing was natural, expressive, easy to read. The characters are interesting and Card puts them into lots of different intersting scenes and senarios. So, ulike a lot of Sci-fi writers, there is always something interesting happening to hold your attention and make you want to read on.
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Summary: Ender FAN!
Review: Hey I know that there are THOUSANDS of reviews out there but I just had to sy hat this was my most FAV. Book i have ever read. I would recommend it to ANYONE(cept my english teacher he hates good book) im about to buy then enders shadow book and read it... I loved this book i was hooked from page 1 - 2?? whatever it was...i hate reading but i LOVED this one... i normally take weeks(even months to read a book) but i read this one in 3 days. Well cyall....
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Summary: Solid Book with an Interesting Perspective
Review: This book, about a future war between Earth and a buglike race from another planet, is really more about human alienation, the perils of youth, and the strain of competition and command. Ender (Andrew) Wiggins, a young genius, is set out to train for combat and leadership in this war to end all wars. His life away from home and the sister he loves is lonely, but he endures it as he goes through rigorous training intentionally designed to isolate and alienate him from those around him even as it prepares him for command of the human fleet and its fight for survival. I guess we have all gone through periods of depression and loneliness, Ender's case is just more aggravated because parts of it are deliberately imposed by the command structure at school. He survives and thrives, after a fashion and he does pay a price. This internal struggle doesn't take away from the battlescenes in this book, which are easy to follow, built well, and capture our interest. The politics and internal battles, the battleroom training simulator, and Card's vision of the future are all also compelling. If you want to read this book, on that level, you will enjoy it. But if you take you time and enjoy this book on all it levels, you will have a true treat. Ender's Game is a serious work of literature and well as a very good book. A treat on every level.
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Summary: Classic
Review: If you have ANY taste for science fiction, do yourself a favor and buy this book. Stories this good dont come around often enough. Card put himself squarely among the greats when he produced this masterpiece.
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Summary: I loved this book more then anything i've ever read before!
Review: Well, let me just say that i am 16 years old and in grade 11 Last year in my english class, we were givin Ender's Game to read for class, and I looked at it and though "What the hell is this?? Sci-Fi?? I only read love stories, that's it!". But then i began to read it... and i couldn't put it down. This book was an amazing novel, i have read every other book in the series [Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide, & Children of the Mind] and the comparative novel [Ender's Shadow] and i am greatly looking forward to the new comparative novel being realeased on January 2, 2001, The Hegemon. I am as well looking forward to the movie which has not yet been picked up by directors yet I am sincerly hoping it does soon.
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Summary: A Masterpiece From Beginning to End!
Review: This book has shown that the Science-Fiction genre walks hand-in-hand with the fantasy genre. I have found that this book was perhaps one of the best books ever written by any writer. From the first page I was hooked, observing the majestic use of real-life feeling characters and their real-life emotions. Few people have ever captured this in the way that Orson Scott Card has. And because this was simply book one of the saga, I have found that it hooked me in to the next two books after it, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide. I have not known a book to be so vivid and grand, in detail and scale. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a good read. -Reviewed by: ProfessionalFantasyNovelist1
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Summary: Just Okay
Review: In retrospect, this was a good story due to the superior last two chapters. The first thirteen chapters barely kept my interest. Through out those chapters, I found it very hard to relate to a bunch of seven and eight-year-olds who had the responsibility and intellect of grown men. I was also disturbed by what almost seemed like a deep seeded sexual interest between Ender and his sister. In the end, I almost didn't want to enjoy the last seventy pages because by that time I had so much resentment for the book--but those pages were just so good.
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Summary: Intense !!!
Review: Since there are already over 1100 reviews of this book (probably all extremely positive) I will only add a few very personal comments here rather than write a more general review. There is only one word for this story--intense. From almost page 1 until the end of the book over 200 pages later you are in 100% total immersion in one of the most suspenseful sci-fi books ever written. I have been a big reader of many of the major names in sci-fi, especially Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein, having read every book they've written, and rarely did their best stuff draw me in like this one did. In a class by itself. Don't miss it.
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