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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This book is wonderful. Like the first book, I couldn't put it down, again I stayed up all night reading it. Card uses the emotions of sadness and loss to really tell a moving and captivating story. It is really loss that stands out here. The loss of Valentine didn't really affect me, this had already happened in the first book. However, the other losses really carried the book. Novinha's loss of the father figure Pipo and the person she loved (Libo), Ender's loss of Jane, Miro's loss of Ouanda, all of them gave this book a strong emotional impact, especially Ender's loss of Jane, which mirrored his loss of Valentine in the first book. This book really had a strong effect on me for several days after i finished it.
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Summary: Doesn't grow on you quite like the original
Review: Perhaps right now you are tempted to press that "not helpful" button at the bottom of my review. Perhaps you are tempted to press it twice. Perhaps you will also be tempted to read what I have to say. Speaker is a good book, but it fails in many areas. First of all, if you hoped for this book to pick up where the Game left off, or at least feature comparable characters, you wil be bitterly disappointed. The original Ender, the boy genius, one who single-handedly destroyed an entire race, is gone. He is replied with a Speaker for the Dead, one who tells the truth about the lives of the deceased, hopping from world to world at relativistic speeds, whittling away at millennia without aging. Although now he doesn't use the name Ender as the entier universe hates the one who destroyed the only other race ever known to man. A new world is discovered, and with it - the piggies, a mysterious primitive race. A settlement is set up, and a non-interference policy is passed, but lives once again are lost, and the world is too mysterious to comprehend - or so it seems. Only eight species in the entier world, and a devious plague virus. Sounds deep? It is. But Card fails to center on what he does best - characterization. Characters are limited to a few heart-tugging scenes of broken hearts and shattered dreams. Sure, the mystery of the aliens is great, but I guessed the answer midway through the book, and soon realized that the mystery was the only thing powering the story - once that was gone the book lost all value. Likewise, there aren't enough relationships with the first book besides a few reminescences into the past, so you could at least relate to the characters as they were in the original, but that isn't there either.This book is good but does not live up to the expectations, and neither is this Card at its best. Read this book once - there is no prize for re-reading it like there was in the Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow.
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Summary: A Powerful Sequel That Did Ender Justice
Review: When I had first finished reading the masterpiece that was Ender's Game, I was kind of horrified to learn there was a sequel. What could follow this? I thought. I did not read Speaker for several years, but I finally caved and read it. If you think that Game was amazing you have to read this. Card captured Ender again, and did it with the beauty and realism that I love about his work. Card, as always, draws on the emotions of the characters so deftly you could swear they were real. Read it, and let Ender touch you again.
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Summary: Not the kind of sequel I expected, but a nice surprise.
Review: A few months ago I read Ender's Game and noted it as a well thought out, fast paced yet richly ploted storyline. I bought Speaker For the Dead expecting similar trends, but got something a little different. The time gap between the two books was a shocker untill the topic of lightyear travel came up. A new alein race was another unexpected addition. The biggest surprise, though, came from the point of view story telling. The cast of characters have as great an influnce on the book's turn of events as Ender himself, more time is devoted to their development than the supporting cast of Ender's Game. I had originally wished for more detail out of Ender's Game,(while it was still a great book)I certainly got it with this one. Speaker moves along a bit slower than it's predecessor, if you're looking for another quick read like Ender, you're going to be upset. It is, however, in some ways superior and just as memorable.
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Summary: Another masterpiece!
Review: How does he do it? How does he, time after time, produce these ineffable, incomparable novels? Orson Scott Card has outdone himself with Speaker for the Dead, and puts to shame all other authors who try to hold a candle to his gargantuan sun. The world that Ender finds himself in, completely different from Ender's Game, is the result of the change and societal development of 3000 years. Here, the setting is so completely incongruous and different from Ender's Game's setting that you wonder--is Ender really in this new setting? Does he belong there? But then you realize that it is 3000 years later, and the conceivable world has changed. Here, Ender finds himself on Lustania, and meets characters there that will imprint themselves on the reader's mind so powerfully that they will never depart. It was interesting to see Ender grown up, and involved with the adult world now. Always, always, as a reader, I was thinking about Ender's own past, and how this made him function in this new setting. Here, in this new setting, the plot is so entertaining and complex that you are simply astounded. You are immediately hooked! This is, no doubt, one of the best science fiction novels that I have ever read, and without dispute one of the best science fiction novels ever written.
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Summary: Speaker For the Dead
Review: This book is incredible. It starts 3000 years where Ender's Game left off. Constant plots twists and an unknowning of what will happen keeps you reading till the very end. You don't even have to read Ender's Game to understand. It works perfectly well by itself. I give this book my highest recommendation.
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Summary: Read ENDERS GAME and ENDERS SHADOW skip the rest
Review: ENDERS GAME and ENDERS SHADOW are two of the best science fiction books ever. The other books in the series are bubble gum for the brain
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Summary: Highly entertaining, not as deep as Ender's Game.
Review: Ender Wiggin, now a middle aged Speaker for the Dead, which is a professional eulogizer, I guess you could say, and this novel focuses on his time on a devoutly catholic world where a few humans live to study a race of aliens commonly referred to as 'piggies'. Somewhat interesting characters, coupled with highly interesting aliens and Ender's background make for a highly entertaining novel, but never reaches the depth and complexity Card achieved in Ender's Game.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This is the best book i've ever read. I loved Ender's Game and I think that this is even better.
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Summary: an interesting sequel
Review: This book is a good sequel to Ender's game. Ender Wiggin is grown up now. The book takes place more than 1000 years after the Bugger Wars and Ender's name is now anathema; people see him as a villain for destroying the only intelligent species mankind has ever encountered. Ender seems to be a background character in this book. It is hard to understand his personality. However, there are new characters to make up for the loss of Ender. Six hurt, confused children, whose abusive father has just died make this book very interesting. Card also introduces a new alien species that is peaceful but that has brutally murdered without apparent cause three times. I recommend reading Speaker for the Dead. Just don't expect it to be much like Ender's Game. It has a very different style.
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