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Summary: Card delivers a true science fiction masterpiece!
Review: Of all the science fiction books you'll ever read, none will have the impact that this book has. The characters Card is able to come up with, and the effectively realistic manner in which he presents their behaviors, is astounding! And the ending will leave you stunned! If you're in the mood for a good, nostaligic sci-fi read, pick up Ender's Game and see what classic science fiction is all about.
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Summary: Best book ever!
Review: I've read Ender's Game many times over, and each time I found a new insight to the characters or to the plot. It's very well written and grabs your attention from the beginning and keeps it all the way until the end. The characters are developed, which make them interesting to watch them interact, and the storyline is great also.
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Summary: Very interesting
Review: Intriguing idea, a bunch of child geniuses with potty mouths being trusted to save the world. Somehow it doesn't shock me. Anyway, great book. Ender is abused by the International Fleet because in order for him to save the world they have to give him not only the proper training but the proper attitude. He thinks he's a killer throughout the book, and he must deal with that while continuing to face the challenges the IF sets for him at the Battle School. Great story, good characters, theme-heavy, humorous, and with some good yet comprehensible sci-fi concepts, this book is one of the best.
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Summary: Great Science Fiction Novel
Review: I do not read science fiction often, but this title was recommended to me by a friend. It was definately worth reading. It had an interesting plot and you can closely identify with Enders very human feelings. The basic plot line is the smartest young children go to a cadet academy that trains them to save the world. The book describes Enders story through this sometimes cruel way of life, and ultimately there is a great end which I thought was powerful. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in something suspenseful and satisfying.
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Summary: Science Fiction At It's Best
Review: Ender's Game is a wonderfully written book! Orson Scott Card did a great job creating the characters (which actually have a regular human personality), the plot, and the surrounding areas. This book has suspense, action, and much more. The characters are all amazingly explained. You can actually understand each character's moves and attitudes. Each character has a unique personality, filled with cruelty, bravery, love, and hate. They are each special and important to the plot. Each person has their own attitude that is perfectly human. I loved the Battleroom scenes, which are very detailed. You can get a feeling about how amazing the battles really are. I recently heard that this is going to be a movie. I just hope they don't ruin the plot or the characters!
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Summary: How do I explain this book?
Review: I read Ender's Game all at once the week before Christmas of eighth grade. It's one of those books where by the end you're reading so fast you can't absorb everything and when you're finished you're exhausted. Ender himself is amazing. The end just blows your mind. The book also raises a lot of philosophical quesions, although the sequel does that more. I think Orson Scott Card's style is fabulous, for the Ender series at least. In fact, after I read some of his other books and found them too be slightly patronizing and immature, I came back and read Ender's Game again, expecting to be disappointed. I wasn't, in any sense of the word.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I read a lot of OSC's books and this one really stands out. Really touched me and I shared it with all of my friends!
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Summary: The book rocked
Review: Enders Game I had to read for a Creative Writing class for my college class. I found it inspirational and uplifting. The ways he incorporated the main charactor amongst all that was going around him was astounding. I found it very very cool. The book itself is a genre that I love reading and writing about. I've been published three times and I see Orson Scott Card almost as a role model all because of the technique he uses to write his books. It make me want to scream out "YES!"
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Summary: If you're the type that reads book reviews...
Review: This book has become sort of a conversation piece among readers. The most important thing about it is that it exposes what people like and don't like about books. Don't go in expecting the Great American Novel. This is a science fiction story about a very gifted boy who is asked to do too much. It's not War and Peace, and if you expect it to be, you'll be sorely dissapointed. However, this is a book worth reading. First, it's a good story. Plenty of action, lots of fun, and a good sprinkling of family issues. It brings up important issues regarding government and war. In summary, if you can go in and just enjoy the book, do so. If you can't keep yourself from (over)analyzing it (and many people can't..there's nothing wrong with that), then skip it; it's not for you.
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Summary: An incredible read...
Review: I need to say, this book was absolutely enthralling... I read the first couple pages one day... then, a couple of weeks later, I sat down and read the rest of it in one sitting. The characters are amazingly complex, the mystery and psuedo-Machiavellian scheming are astounding, the depth of emotion conveyed is moving, and the ending satisfies in a way that is simply astounding (ever think how hard it would be to end a story in a plausible manner, as an author?). Definately one of my favorite books, certainly one that everyone should read... especialy for the gifted child (the introduction, in the printing that /has/ an introduction, is wonderful, despite how much Card didn't want to write one). Simply put, Read This Book. Oh, and a note to the reviewer who complained about the bad physics the book contains... first of all, I have to say that, seeing how the book is science fiction, it involves science, and fiction. It's not /supposed/ to be totaly realistic, if it were totaly realistic, it'd be real life. Secondly, people have always thought we knew everything there was to know... near the beginning of the 20th century (don't feel like looking up the exact date), the head of the U.S. Patent Beurau said that everything that ever could be invented already had been... sitting in front of my computer, typing this, I get the feeling he was wrong... Einstein's General Relativity wasn't exactly considered as plausible by most of the scientific community... most of the scientists of the time went to the grave insisting he was out of his mind... of course, I'm not saying that Ender's Game is real... I don't think we can just break the laws of physics, but the fact is, what we think are the laws of physics are probably not the real deal. Sorry if I seemed like I was ranting... I've got to go find a copy of Speaker for the Dead now... Bye!
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