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Summary: Either one is incomplete without the other...
Review: Great book! Enders game was a little bit better, but i can't really complain, i loved them both. I thik that while Enders game was good where it left off, and it didn't NEED to be expanded on, Card did a good job of doing it anyway, and i personally like them more together then with just game.
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Summary: great book, but you must read ender's game first ...
Review: this is a most entertaining book, the onlt flaws i see are the fact that it somewhat a complementary book to ender's game, and must be read after reading ender's game, and the fact the unlike ender's game, it leaves quite a place to more sequals to come.
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Summary: card's done it again
Review: this book is just as good, if not better, than Ender's game. It tells the same story, but through Bean's point of veiw.I highly recomend this book for any science fiction fan out there!
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Summary: If you liked Ender's game...
Review: If you can't get enough of the Ender's series, then this book is for you. It brings you back to the Ender's game story, but it has a completely diferent perspective. If you think this is the same book as Ender's game, you're wrong. It's a completely different novel.
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Summary: Great, orson scott card is a genius.
Review: Enders shadow is a Paralel story to Enders Game about Bean and his struggles on the streets of rotterdam and how he meets ender.
Personally, I thought this one was better than the first because i like how he got into space and i also liked enders shadows ending better than enders games.
And being one of the only books with a good sequal, I have to say, it deserves 5 stars.
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Summary: Great companion to Ender's Game...
Review: Card returns to his roots with his most compulsively readable novel since, well, Ender's Game. Told from the point of view of the genetically engineered Bean, this story is an echo of Ender's Game that is nearly as fascinating as that classic (my favorite SF novel ever).This can't have been too hard a novel for Card to write. After all, we already know the basics of the plot. He merely had to fill in the back-story of Bean's upbringing and give Bean certain challenges to overcome. Where Ender has Valentine, Bean has Sister Carlotta. Where Ender has Peter, Bean has Achilles, a brilliant thug from his youth as a street urchin. Through Bean's eyes, we see the power of Ender wasn't just in his keen intellect, it was in his ability to lead and to love. Bean himself lacks some of those human qualities, and he knows it. All in all, a must-read for lovers of Ender's Game, and easily the second most-enjoyable book in the series. (As others have noted, Xenocide and Children of the Mind were not up to the standards of the earlier works, alas)...
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Summary: The only book in the series that is as good as Ender's Game
Review: Bean, the smarter guy (human?) on Earth, fights alongside Peter Wiggin to beat Achilles, and to ultimately unite mankind under the Hegemon. The author gets deeper into Bean's feelings, showing his conflicts and abilities. Bean is not the regular genious; he is The Genious. During this novel, we see him change from a cold, somewhat dark, mastermind into a warmer, yet sad, super-brain. If you felt, just like me, that the books that followed Ender's Game were not in its same league (though not for being bad, but rather because they couldn't match EG's superb quality), here you will find the first one I feel its as good as the original. I couldn't put it down. You probably won't, too.
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: I never thought i would ever say these words but this book is just as good as Ender's Game. Card's brilliance is clearly showed in creating a book that makes sense whether you've ever read the original or not. The book suceeds in presenting the same story through a different point of view, and it is truely amazing to read. The way Bean views the sitiuations in the book are amazing to read in contrast to Enders. This book is a true masterpiece and anyone of all ages should pick it up as soon as possible.
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Summary: Ender's Game is better than the opinions of a boy named Bean
Review: As I read through some of the existing reviews, I noticed a lot of people complaining about how Ender's Game should have been left alone, or needed nothing else, and I agree with them somewhat: Ender's Game was complete and NEEDED nothing else. I thought Ender's shadow was a great book that gave me a better understanding of the first. It would have been interesting to read Ender's Shadow first, then Ender's Game. Ender's Game needed nothing else. It was a masterpiece in itself, but I think writing another book about it did not ruin the effect. My only complaint is that Ender's Shadow should have been about someone more normal. Ender is the kid that saves the world, a child prodigy. When I heard of Ender's Shadow I expected the story to be about someone who was an average kid at Battle School. But the main character, Bean, is also a child prodigy, and if Ender didn't come around he would probably be the one to save humanity. But my main complaint is this: In Ender's Game Bean's personality is different from Ender's Shadow. At the begining of Ender's Shadow Bean is almost mechanical, sencible. As the book continues, however, Bean's personality slowy changes to fit Bean's description of Bean in Ender's Game. He has stronger emotions and is less practical. Card should have either made a new character, not mentioned in Ender's Game, or should have started Bean out with the right personality. One thing I did like about Ender's Shadow was the detail Card took in portrayed every thought Bean had. Bean's personality, expiriances and his opinions about them, and the way his mind works are revield. Although his personality was not the same as it was in Ender's Game, Bean's initial personality in Ender's Shadow is spellbinding and very interesting. I must admit though, Ender's Shadow didn't match up with Ender's Game, and I wouldn't give it five stars. The tale of a prodigy saving humanity still outranks the opinions a boy named Bean. Writing the same story from another character's point of view must have been a challenge, and I congragulate Card on his fine effort. But Ender's Shadow will never match Ender's Game. There's not much good literature for teenagers out there. When you're younger you read the Newberrys, when you're older you read those books they always turn into movies, unless of course you're a literature teacher, then you dwell on classics. But when you're a teenage there's not much to read. Card has created a book that is readable for teenagers and adults. I would highly recomend this, (but first Ender's Game), to any teenager, or adult for that matter.
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Summary: Should have left Ender's Game alone
Review: While yes, I found ENDER'S SHADOW to be enjoyable, Ill be trying hard to forget this story when I fondly remember ENDER'S GAME.
It was not the writing, or the fact that it followed Ender's Game closely. It was just overdone. Bean's "street urchin" background was excellent, and Card did a wonderful job distinguishing his personality from Ender's. But I was disappointed, however, with the way Card added meaning to many of the events we were familiar with from Game:
*SPOILERS*
Now, BEAN made Ender's army -A well thought-out master plan, instead of being just another way the teachers had stacked the game against Ender. Now, BEAN was responsible for Ender's last (and greatest) victory at battle school. Even the deadline cord was now a result of some great victory BEAN won against the teachers, instead of just something he tried out in practice. In fact, Bean was able to figure out almost all of the things Ender couldn't... it's just that he decided to keep his thoughts to himself. Was *everything* the result of Bean's handy work?
*END of SPOILERS*
Card should have left the original story "lean and mean" -the message just isn't the same any more. Too much credit was taken away from Ender, and handed to Bean. Of course, he had to bring Bean up to the lead role for this book, but Ender's tale was too much changed in the process. Everyone knows it was ENDER who could do what nobody else could. Now, we are told that Ender wasn't all that great... That he would have failed miserably had it not been for Bean.
Other minor annoyances:
Ender's Game had little religion in it, (unlike the sequels), and that was something I felt should have been left out of Shadow as well. It just doesn't fit with the story's flow. Same with the constant use of Spanish... There was little of that in Ender's Game, and now, suddenly, it has been worked into nearly every character's dialogue. It breaks the smooth flow of the reading when you can't figure out what a character is saying. Maybe Card has some sort of agenda involving these two aspects in his books, but I found them simply annoying.
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