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Summary: Hello I read this delightful book
Review: Hello I read this delightful book abot the fairies and the unicorns that take over the world by means of illegal weapons!!!!!! THIS IS A GREAT NON- FICTION BOOK!!!!
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Summary: The Only Weak Point is that It is the Last
Review: With a typical series, the first book is the best and then the series loses steam as you read more books. But with the Ender series, it just keeps getting better! Children of the Mind is a great piece of fiction, with a great plot, good character development and the style that only Card can do. I couldn't put it down. The only tragedy of this book that it is the last of the series and that there will be no more stories of Ender the Xenocide, Speaker for the Dead, and one of the greatest characters ever created
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Summary: A very good book, but not a great book
Review: I want to preface this by saying that Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are two of the best novels that I have ever read. Unfortunately, Children of the Mind, while a good book, did not live up to my expectations. It does have some moments of brilliance, but there are not quite as many of them as in OSC's previous works. Part of the problem is that much less time is spent with Ender, and Ender is the central reason that most of us became such fanatics. It is still a must read if you have read the other three, if for no other reason than to gain some sense of closure (although as others have pointed out, there is at least one story line that is left open). Go ahead and get it, but don't get your hopes up too high
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Summary: A really good book
Review: I read this book in two dys and loved it. Perhaps I am easier to please, but I thought it was very good, and it made me like the whole series more. While it doesn't wrap the whole thing up, it is very good and makes you think
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Summary: An excellent book, I highly recommend it.
Review: CoTM is, of course, an excellent book - it's Card on Ender, what else is there to say? If you haven't read the first books, read them first, otherwise you'll have a hard time understanding huge chunks of the plot. Taken as the conclusion of the series it's a great book, though not as good as the first two in the series. Ender's game (the first book) is one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read, so, remember - all critism is relative.
It's a beautiful book - philosophy, drama, and science all blended together perfectly. I had to try to slow myself down as I was reading it - I was going so fast I was skipping lines! As soon as I finished it I wanted to read the series all over again, all at once. I know there are things I missed this time because of the time interval since I read Zenocide.
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Summary: It was a poorly thought out story.
Review: The Ender series was one of the best I've read. This book was a big dissapointment. The characters were weak and the plot wouldn't challenge an eight year old's imagination. If you plan on buying this book, don't worry about the money you are wasting. Worry about the time you waste in reading it. ******
In terms of plot, I submit that It would have made sense if Jane's auira was transferred to the D. VIRUS. That would have had more of a potential for a real plot and at the same time the d. virus problem would have been taken care of.
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Summary: NOT MUCH "WOW" BUT A GREAT READ NONETHELESS
Review: CoTM is absolutely worth a read, and worthy of inclusion in the Ender story. Perhaps not as stunningly deep and thoughtful as Ender's Game or Speaker for the Dead, but on a par with Xenocide. Card is brilliant and original, as always. If you have read the first three, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR
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Summary: This book is not hard to put down
Review: I'm a big fan of Card's and think his Ender series is great, but Childred of the Mind just isn't very interesting. It's rambling and lack just about everything that's good in the other books in the series. The other books in the series are well told, full of imagery and interesting ideas and twists, and one develops empathy with his characters. His editors should have reminded Card of what makes him a good writer. Perhaps Card is starting to write above mortals like me, or perhaps he's getting a bit weird on us. I'd suggest skipping this book and trying something else he's written
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Summary: WHAT mind??
Review: OK, I got over the fact that Ender had a cameo and then died. But I couldn't get over the lack of good hard science (like Speaker for the Dead's explanation of how piggies reproduced). What in the world is an aiua, anyway? Novinha had undergone a sorry change from the intriguing, pivotal character she used to be, and the new characters introduced were more blah than the Brady Bunch. Grace Drinker (couldn't find a better last name?) and her husband who laughs all the time were ludicrous. If there really was a Jane, she'd be rolling over in her ansible network
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Summary: Weak ending to a great series
Review: I was disappointed with this fourth (and presumably final) installment of the Ender saga. Indeed, this story isn't really about Ender at all but about the 2 Ender "clones", Peter and Valentine. While this does not make this a bad novel, frankly, I was hoping that Card would have found a way to make the demise of Andrew Wiggen, one of the more interesting protagonists in science fiction, more memorable. Wiggen's death is reduced to almost a footnote in this installment and I could never generate the same degree of interest in either Peter or the young Valentine
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