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Summary: The second star is optimistic
Review: Okay, metaphor time. If "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" (the two best books in the series) are Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, respectively, then "Ender's Shadow" is The Phantom Menace. Good idea, bad follow-through. The writing is poor, the characters are wooden and not really true to the originals, and worst of all, the main character is so unlikable that one can only hope that he dies soon. The only reason that I gave this book 2 stars is because I hold out the same hope for this series as I do for the rest of the new Star Wars movies. Hopefully, now that the story is set up, the next books will be a vast improvement.
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Summary: The unlikely hero... BEAN
Review: This is a novel that parallels the Ender's game novel. It is the same story from a different point of view giving the reading an expanding view on the novel I fell in love with many years ago. The reader follows Bean through the same school Ender attended only a few short years behind the boy he come to emmulate. I would reccomend this book to anyone who has read Ender's Game and those who want to read it. You must read both to get a full understanding of the world Card creates for us all to enjoy. A book you will have trouble putting down when the sun rises and it is time to go to work.
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Summary: The BEST
Review: THE BEST BOOK FOR EVERY 10-100yr old who had any interest what-so-ever in Star Wars!
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Summary: This book forgets one thing - Ender Wiggin rules!
Review: There are some novels that are obviously an author's desire to capitalize on an interesting book. "Lost World" trying to succeed off of Jurassic Park, Donaldson's Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever and now "Ender's Shadow" a book that is a perspective switch of "Ender's Game".There were quite a few things I didn't like about this book. First was the writer's attempt to make Bean appear superior to Ender. After reading Ender's Game, (a fantastic five star novel), the reader loves and adores Ender Wiggin, for good reason. I was not compelled by this entire desire to make anyone seem greater than Ender. Also the narrative in this novel flowed in a much more choppy manner than "Ender's Game". The surprise ending was no surprise... Card worked hard to create another brilliant child to follow but just left a sort of sour distaste in my mouth. If you liked "Ender's Game" you will probably like this - just not nearly as much. I would recommend the true sequel to "Ender's Game" - Speaker for the Dead, a book that might even be better than the original.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!
Review: This was one of the best book I have ever read! Bean's parallel world to the ender series only proved once again that Mr.Card has some awsome tricks up his sleeve. The book fills in the gaps that ender's series left. Like why is Bean so important that they moved him up? Where did he come from. That is not to say that Enders game had holes. I felt that the Ender series left me very satisfied with the begining to the end. This book was a pleasent suprise. You get to see what happened behind Ender. I think that very few authors could have done this as well. That's about it. So what are you waiting for! Buy it! Read it! Love it, and for those of you who have read it, the HUGE HUGE HUGE twist at the end.(it carries the story further than before)
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Summary: A great point of view!
Review: I am a newfound sc-fi fanatic! I started with Ender's game and read all of the series. I found out about ender's shadow and had to get it. I absolutely love how Orson Scott Card took the same elements of the original ender's game and told it from a sub-character's point of view. I am waiting for the next one, I highly recommend this book, it is easy to read and understand, and you do not have to be a sci-fi freak to see the plot line. It is by far one of my favorit books, of course other than Ender's game. I also loved it so much because Bean was one of my favoirt character's he reminds me of Ender, but they are both two differnt character's so that is why it is such a great book! also read Shadow of the Hegemon! it's great also!
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Summary: absolutly loved it.
Review: I really identified with bean, whereas ender always seemed so superhuman, bean seemed more real and didn't agonize over the moral question for so long. He was strait forward about his extemely strong will to survive and that he looked out for himself first; and while to some this may have seemed selfish I found bean refreshingly honest.
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Summary: Card's Shadow
Review: Every single time that I put this book down I became excited to see what would happen to Bean. Card once again uses his beautiful style to suck your brain into a void of complete awe. The fact that he, not retells the story of Ender, but takes the same foundation and puts you in the drivers seat of a character that could possibly be as cool as Ender, is amazing. Card has a way with perceptions, and dropping tiny bits of information that either blow up in your face chapters later, or in this case, novels later. I purchased this book as soon as it came out, but it sat on my shelf until I finished the "Enders Quartet." As I came to a close with Children of the Mind, I started Ender's Shadow and finished it in an evening. Get this book!
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Summary: Even better than Ender's Game!
Review: Ender's Shadow is a fabulous book. It covers many of the same events as "Ender's Game", this time told from the perspective of Bean, a minor character in "Ender's Game". Orson Scott Card's writing style, and through it, his characterization of Bean, has strengthened dramatically since he wrote "Ender's Game". While I loved EG very much, I find ES to be superior. Bean is an engaging character in his own right, with his own set of personal demons, in the form of his backstory, heritage, and his archnemesis, Achilles. How he deals with these demons, as well as his struggle to be accepted both by the students as a whole, and by Ender in particular, makes for engaging reading. It would be easy to think that if you had read EG, then you don't need to read ES. This is not true. Sure, you know the eventual outcome of the war, but seriously, I'm sure we all did when we first opened the book, anyway. (Did you *really* think Earth would be destroyed?) That isn't the point of the story, however. It is a story about gifted children, discrimination, genetic engineering, acceptance, survival of the fittest, revenge, redemption, adolescence and adulthood. It doesn't matter one whit that you know how the war was won. Besides, there's a twist in the final battle that you don't know about if you read EG. Ender is the hero... but maybe it's Bean... or maybe it really is Ender. You have to decide for yourself. Furthermore, Card allows Bean to analyze the situations around him, and explain them in much more detail than he ever wrote Ender's character. We find out much more about the war and the people who are waging it, than in Ender's Game. This, not EG, is my favorite of the Ender's series so far. The only one I have not yet read is Shadow of the Hegemon... Peter and Bean in the same book?? I can't wait!
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Summary: Best out of the Ender books, so far
Review: As anyone who has seen any reviews i have made before can probably realize by now, i either really like a book, or really dislike it. I really like this. I like reading about smart people, because then you are always on your toes. Bean is definitely smart and Orson Scott Card must be or he couldn't have come up with so much stuff for him to go through and figure out.
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