Children of the Mind

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Summary: The last Ender book is the best
Review: I couldn't wait for the paperback edition, this series is so good, I bought it in hardcover edition as soon as it came out. This is the best book! Read it! P.S. Read the other books first for most enjoyment.

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Summary: A marvoulous ending to a powerful saga.
Review: A very powerful and moving story. Card has definitly captured my attention with this series. I have the whole collection of the Ender's Series. I am definitly going to read other books by Card!

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Summary: A Powerful Ending to a Powerful Series
Review: Mr. Card has not allowed script development work for his and Rhino Pictures' "Ender's Game" to detract from his effort at effectively concluding the Ender Saga with "Children of the Mind." A long time ago, it seems, I casually picked up "Ender's Game," doing so solely because of the awards it had won. By the time I had read it, "Speaker for the Dead," and "Xenocide," I had learned what Card knew all along. That he manuevers us through this future world, but he did not create it, nor the ethical dillemas that reside therein. That world, those issues, those decisions lie within all of us, waiting to be known, to be expressed, to be brought forth. It was with that fervent desire to know more of myself, really, that I snatched up "Children of the Mind" from its place in Borders at the World Trade Center. I found the novel to be imbued with the same sense of enlightenment through struggle that possessed the first three novels. Although Young Val and Peter, Outside creations of Ender, were never fully developed as entities, Card uses that as a dramatic device, bringing along aspects of those two as the plot drives along, allowing us to witness the subtle levels of newfound awareness the each character goes through. For these reasons and many more, Card appears to be a genius. I wish I was close enough to him to be listed in the acknowledgements, for then I would be privy to the only part of the stories I am missing; their creation.

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Summary: A great book!
Review: I read this book over my summer break and found it outstanding. I have read the previous books about Ender and his journeys. Enders Game is still the best book I've ever read, although Children of the Mind comes pretty close. It is a must-read!!

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Summary: One of the best storys of are time .
Review: Os Filhos da mente (Childern of the mind) by Orson Scott Card. I Think that this book is one of the best works of Orson yet. With the tale tale signs of a movie in the making Orson strikes a master blow with this book. This story is a beatiful finsh to the Andrew Wiggins sage, and a even more entry into the sage of the new Peter Wiggins. Orson brings of back to the life of Andrew Wiggins or (Ender) With the Descolada virus put to a stop a new chalange shadows over the planet of Lusitania. The Fleet that starways congress sent almost thirty years ago is just a few days away for destorying everyone and thing on Lusitania, or thats what starway congress thinks. With the new faster than light travel supplied by the new raman Jane who's life is about to be put to and end before that fleet even arives to Lustitania, and with her the faster than light travel that everyone is depending on to escape the death and destuction of the fleet. Also Miro and the new Val are hunting down the new race of beings that made the descolada , and stop them form sending the virus. death at every corner , but where is the great Ender wiggins to save the human race once more. Dieing of coures. This story reads itself it you let it a true page turner

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Summary: Above average but not the best
Review: First of all, if you never read the first three books then you can forget about reading this one. You need to know the plot of at least "Xenocide" to understand "Children of the Mind." Therefore you must have read "Speaker for the Dead" to understand "Xenocide". You don't have to read "Ender's Game" to understand "Speaker for the Dead" but it would sure help and it is the best book in the series by far, and the best I have ever read. Assuming that you have read the other three then you would definitely want to read the last one. You don't have to rush out to the stores and buy the 25.00 hardcover, though, because it wasn't as astonishingly brilliant as "Ender's Game" but it is still a good read. The books seems to flow well until you notice that it doesn't really go anywhere. It gives you a conclusion but the problem with the ending is that it is rather limp. Unless this book is going to be followed by another one the ending is weak. Even with these weaknesses the quality writing of Orson Scott Card shines through to present an enjoyable, but not completely on par with the other Ender's Series books.

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Summary: A fitting end . . .
Review: With Ender's game, Card told us the story of a little boy whose games and personal problems touched all of humanity. Speaker for the Dead showed the games and the personal problems of the adult Ender, and now, with Children of the Mind, we see how once again they take on all-encompassing consequences. The story takes us from the planet Lusitania to all ends fof the hundred worlds, as Peter and Wang-mu seek to save not only the citizens of the planet, but also Jane, the brainchild of Ender and the buggers, and one of the three beings to which the title refers. The Characters they meet are wonderful. Card, known for characterization, does a brillant job of that, and also of forming the worlds that created them. This was a delightful peek at all sorts of Minds, and those thoughts which are thier true children.

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Summary: You must read it, but you won't necessarily like it.
Review: I guess that _Ender's Game_ and _Speaker for the Dead_ are tough acts to follow, but I can't help feeling let down by this book. The first half, published as _Xenocide_, was quirky but full of ideas and characterization. This one gets bogged down with the weirdness of the young Valentine and Peter, and gets caught up in mysticism while trying to postulate a physical basis for the soul. More to the point, it really doesn't tie up all the loose ends and provide closure. If anything, it ends with an obvious lead-off to a next novel, which is odd since this is supposed to be the final one. All in all, I was annoyed and unsatisfied, not so much because it was an awful book -- Card is still Card -- but because it fell short of what it needed to be. If you've read the first three, you'll want to read this one, but maybe you should contain your enthusiasm and wait for the paperback.

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Summary: A *must* for any Ender fan!
Review: The fourth and final installment of the Ender saga continues where Xenocide left off. Lusitania is in imminent danger of destruction by the Lusitania Fleet, dispatched by Starways Congress 20 years earlier. The inhabitants of Lusitania, humans, piggies, and buggers alike, are busily boarding spacecraft and leaving to colonize other, far-off worlds in a last ditch effort to save their respective species. Meanwhile, Ender, through his offspring, Peter and Val, created in Ender's trip "outside" at the end of Xenocide, traverse The Hundred Worlds as they try to influence the thinking of Starways Congress to withdraw the Fleet and prevent a Second Xenocide. All the while, Ender himself lies weak and ill back on Lusitania in the company of his wife and sister. Unable to sustain itself as three entities, Ender's soul searches for a single manifestation. But which one? Jane as well, having been discovered and considered a "virulent program", confronts the concept of "death" in human terms after "living" for 3000 years. She too must find a manifestation if she is to continue. A brash, young Fleet commander makes for a suspenseful ending. This book is an ABSOLUTE read for those that have completed the first three. If, however, you are just discovering Ender, the beloved boy-general, be certain to start with Ender's Game and read all four in chronological order. You won't be disappointed

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Summary: This book is really good, but much deeper than the others.
Review: Children of the Mind is a very good book. It gets into the nitty gritty emotions and feelings of the characters. A lot of the action is internalized. The book is also extremely philosophical. It discusses a lot of deep and lofty things. It is definitley a must read if you've read the others, but don't expect to pick it up and read it as a stand-alone book