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Summary: A science fiction masterpiece
Review: Ender's Game is a sci-fi classic of staggering depth, and with it Orson Scott Card establishes himself as a writer to be mentioned in the same breath as Asimov, Clarke, Dick, and Gibson. Ender's Game flings the reader headlong into an Earth reeling from two alien attacks. To prevent defeat in a third, the fleet takes the smartest children of Earth to be trained as fighters and commanders. Of all these children, Ender Wiggin is the smartest. The leaders of the fleet are convinced he is the one who can lead humanity to victory. But before he can do that, Ender must survive his training, where jealous soldiers conspire against him and his teachers put him through tests more rigorous than anyone has ever faced before. Card's portrayal of Ender's struggle against his peers, his superiors, and ultimately the aliens shows the tension of human interaction under the pressure of impending war. Ender presents one of the deepest, most impelling characters ever to hit the pages of a sci-fi novel; the reader feels his pain and his pleasure as he makes his way through a world not many could endure. This book is an essential addition to any complete sci-fi library, or any library at all.
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Summary: Ender's Game: an intense gaze into the future of humanity.
Review: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is the well-told story of a young boy named Ender Wiggin and a struggle that rages ,within his conscience, and throughout the galaxy. In the future, humanity has been twice attacked by a vicious alien race known as the "Buggers." Fearing a third invasion, military leaders desperately search for a military leader. Believing six-year-old Ender to be that brave leader, they launch him off to a "Battle School" space station to train him in the art of war. Ender's will and endurance are put to the test, and though his strife never seems to end, neither does his strength. With this creative story, Card shows us that he not only has the ability to convey mind-bending concepts in a way that makes them seem second nature, he also has a unique understanding of the human spirit... especially the young human.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Ender's Game is one of the most provocative andthought-inspiring books I have read. The main character in the story,Ender, is only a child, yet he bares the burden of humanity on his shoulders. A very intriguing book and well worth you while of reading it.
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Summary: It was great!
Review: I am in a High school Honers english class and we read this book for one of our novels and it was absolutly great. We disscussed it in great detail but there was always more to say instead of less wich is a wonderful comment in a book. I am excited to read his next books and will fallow him in his writing. I apologize for this hasty (unhoners) level writting but I have a great urge to read my book...Speaker for the Dead.
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Summary: On a rating of 1-5, a 6
Review: Ender's Game is the best book I have ever read. To give it 5 stars is not adequate. The average is 4.5 because a few people gave it 4 or <gasp> lower. Almost everyone gave it a 5. Ender Wiggin is a child genius. The government has put a moniter on Ender to see if he can go Battle School. The moniter comes off, and he goes to Battle School. There he does better then anyone else, and is promoted quickly. OSC does a great job of creating the character, and you grow to love Ender. After reading Ender's Game, read Speaker for the Dead (sequel). It is an excellent book, and continues the story of Ender.
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Summary: A must read for sci-fi and non sci-fi fans alike!
Review: I started reading this book yesterday and finnished it that night (actually it would be called this morning because it took me untell 2:00 AM). While the authors discriptions can sometimes leave something to be desiered, the way he understands how the human mind works makes this one of the best, if not the best, book I have ever read. I urge you to buy this book
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Summary: Some people just don't get it.
Review: I don't know what some people were thinking when they read this book because it is quite possibly THE greatest book ever published. Some people are complaining about the lack of detail of the lack of detail, the ease of reading and other such stupid things. Card apprached that book in a humanistic way which, I believe, has never been rivaled. The people complaining about are either substandard in intelligence or just plain stupid (so they can understand what I called them). Card never wanted Ender's Game to be cryptic or to be only understood by astrophysists, he meant for it to be accessable for all readers. He didn't concentrate on the science for a reason-he isn't a scientist and wasn't going to pretend to be. So all of you who think it's stupid because it is easily readable curl up with your Xerox manual, but for all of you who have been left out for being smarter than the others, read this book because you will understand it.
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Summary: This book will chage your view of life.
Review: it's impossible to describe the magnificent wrting style and storyline presented in Enders Game. But i can assure you one thing. it will change your life. i began reading the book and stayed up until three am reading everynight until i finished it. it is a powerful writing that will still be atracting readers of every age for milennia to come.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Ender's Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is, in my opinion, a fantastic book. It is very well written, and it presents a great plot. It does, however, have a few downsides to it. In this essay you will read about the good and bad aspects of this book. I have several arguments saying that Ender's Game is a good book. One of these is that Ender is a strong, well-portrayed character. He has many sides to him. He loves his sister, hates his brother, is a military genius, and is the youngest of the launchies (new recruits or students at Battle School) to be promoted to an army. His teachers feign favoring Ender in order to isolate him by making the other boys dislike him. Ender is forced to prove himself time and again, and is finally accepted into the group. When the teachers see that he has been accepted, they put him in an army to further isolate him and make him prove himself yet again. They are trying to teach him that no one will help him. P68-69: 'Alai looked up at him. "Don't you know? This was on your bed. You must have sat on it." Ender took it from him. ENDER WIGGINS ASSIGNED SALAMANDER ARMY COMMANDER BONZO MADRID EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY CODE GREEN GREEN BROWN NO POSSESSIONS TRANSFERRED Ender shook his head. It was the stupidest thing he could think of, to promote him now. Nobody got promoted before they were eight years old. Ender wasn't even seven yet. Just when things were finally coming together. Just when his life was finally getting livable. "I don't want to go," he said. "I understand them, Ender. [said Alai.] You are the best of us. Maybe they in a hurry to teach you everything." "They don't want to teach me everything," Ender said. "I wanted to learn what it was like to have a friend." ' Though this book may be truly enthralling, there are some downsides to it. I do not like the fact that Ender killed two boys in physical fights. He was standing up for himself, I know, but I think that just having the boys hospitalized would have been enough. Also, at one point in the book, Ender becomes indifferent to everything because the people at the school have pushed him so hard. Though this indifference works well with the story, I do not think that indifference works with "Ender" half as well as peanut butter goes with jelly, or milk with cookies. Basically, though this is a great book, there are some parts that I did not like as well as others. Another strong aspect of Ender's Game is the games. There are many of them, but the main one is then one that the armies play. The children at Battle School are all obsessed with it. The game what they all strive to be the best in. Some children, like Ender's friend, Dink Meeker, have their own opinions about the enemy in the games are. P107-108: ' "These other armies, they aren't the enemy. It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. The game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing. We kill ourselves, go crazy trying to beat each other, and all the time the old bastards are watching us, studying us, discovering our weak points, deciding whether we're good enough or not. Well, good enough for what? I was six years old when they brought me here. What the hell did I know? They decided I was right for the program, but nobody ever asked if the program was right for me." "So why don't you go home?" [Ender asked.] Dink smiled crookedly. "Because I can't give up the game. Because I love this." P111: 'But Ender could not stop thinking about what Dink had said. The Battle School was so enclosed, the game so important in the minds of the children, that Ender had forgotten there was a world outside.' The game is a battle between two armies. In the battle, the armies use guns that freeze the opponent's joint(s) or, if they are hit correctly, their whole body. In the battle room, there are some obstacles, stars (p89: 'Huge brown boxes were suspended in midair, partially obstructing the view. So these were the obstacles that soldiers called stars. They were distributed seemingly at random. ). There is no gravity in the battle rooms, so whichever way you are facing is up for you. The way to win is to completely disable the other army, and then have at least five soldiers who are completely unfrozen left. This book was written in a way that things never got boring. All the time there were new twists, turns, and rules being added. There was character growth, action, and real feelings involved. Feelings of hate, love, and sorrow spilling out from Ender, his friends, and his enemies. This is a book of excitement, disappointment, anger, fear, strategy, and games---Ender's games.
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Summary: One of the Best Books Ever
Review: I'm not a very big fan of sicence fiction but this book was outstanding! The ending was hidden so well, you couldn't even to begin what was going to happen. There's a whole "Ender" series. Ender's Game is the first; next is Speaker for the Dead; third is Xeonicide; fourth is Children of the Mind; and a new one Ender's Shadow. I plan on reading all of these and if you read or plan to read Ender's Game, don't stop there.
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