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Summary: Almost as good as "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
Review: I would have said this was the best science fiction book I've ever read, except that a week after I read it, I re-read "A Canticle for Leibowitz," which I enjoyed even more. I'd read it so many years ago that I didn't even remember how it went, so re-reading it was like the very first time. Same thing with "Shadow": It had been so long since I'd read "Ender's Game" that I wasn't sure if I would "get" "Shadow," but a friend assured me that I didn't have to re-read the first to enjoy the second. And he was right. But now I'm going to re-read "Game" and then the other three Ender books. Then wait for the next three Bean books, right?
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Summary: Nothing New Worthwhile
Review: Ender's Shadow is good only because Ender's Game is great. Reliving Ender's Game from the perspective of Bean works. Bean's life prior to the space station is unbelievable and uninteresting. The additional threads outside of the interactions with Ender were not as well developed and did not hold my interest (e.g. Achilles). If you want to relive Ender's Game through Bean, then buy this book. Don't expect too much more.
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Summary: Excellent book to any SF standard
Review: I was a bit dissapointed when Ender's Shadow came out that it was a parallel novel to Ender's Game, and not the sequel to Children of the Mind as I had secretly wished for for years!But the book turned out to be an intensive reading, incredibly addictive, and in many ways turned out to be much better than the original. OSC's ability to tell the same yet totally different story is amazing. And being able to see behind the set of Ender's story is a unique feeling, close to the feeling you get when watching the Usual Suspects' Director's Commentary on the DVD edition. Now, Orson, please tell us the rest of the Descolada story. We really can't wait any longer...
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Summary: Excellent book, ranks with Ender's Game.
Review: The reviewers who are disappointed with this book are most likely upset because they cannot repeat the gut-wrenching plot twist of the first time they read Ender's Game. However, to say that making Bean more intelligent than Ender is somehow to diminish Ender is to misread the book completely. The two boys share many strengths, but they are not identical. They are working together - there is no competition between Ender and Bean! Ender's Game, by the way, is not the best science fiction book ever written. Speaker for the Dead is. But Ender's Shadow and Ender's Game are a marvelous pair of complementary books. I hope the next perspective (from Card's inevitable next "parallel" novel) sheds as much light on the battle school and the characters there as this one did.
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Summary: 300+ more pages of Ender's Game--only gloomier
Review: Not that that's not a good thing. It was very nice to be back at Battle School and though I, like other readers, was a little annoyed by some of Card's stretches to make the new Bean fit the things the old one said and did (if Bean wondered one more time if whoever he was talking to recognized that he was being sarcastic...) A few little inconsistencies (how does Achilles know that the Bugs are a hive mind?) also annoy. While definitely an improvement over Xenocide and the abominable Children of the Mind, I think in truth Card had said what he had to say when Speaker for the Dead was finished. This one "Shadows" Ender's Game a bit too much, with a darker, bloodier equivalent of everything in Ender's life existing in Bean's (Bean's Peter kills his Valentine, but a new Valentine emerges, etc.) An interesting literary device, but Card forgot that he wasn't writing literature.
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Summary: Very good but there was some cheese
Review: I really enjoyed it and it was worth every penny. I'm not giving it 5 stars b/c of the Achilles thing and the brother thing - no spoilers here just if you read it - you know what I'm talking about
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Summary: Brilliant novel with minor flaws
Review: A few to many lectures on religion, some out-of-character dialogue from Bean (Which Card couldn't avoid because of the first book), and a few to many rambling thoughts from Bean's mind are minor flaws in an excellent read. Is it Ender's Game? No. Is it better than all that other stuff that came after Ender's Game? Yes. Card has tried hard to make the timelines work and, although a little shaky, the discussions between Ender and Bean. It is well worth the money to purchase this book. Learn a little about war tactics and philosophy while you're at it.
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Summary: The best book I've read in a long time........
Review: I enjoyed this book so much! I could not put it down. At the same time, I wanted to go slow because I knew it would be a long time before I read another book this good. The twists and turns of the book made me so happy. I believe I kissed the book twice and cried happy tears three times! I hope to read more about Bean very soon.
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Summary: This book is a gem
Review: I wouldn't compare it to Ender's Game. The war with the buggers and all that is merely a backdrop to the psychological aspects of the story. I'm always intrigued to read about a character that has no humanity. In this case, Bean is purely intellect (almost). In this way, Ender and Bean can't be compared at all, they're almost opposites. Ender is appealing because he feels so much and Bean because he doesn't feel at all. I look at the two books and see very different stories (no matter what anyone says). I feel that this book can stand alone very well if you look at the difference between how Bean interacted with the same people that Ender did.
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Summary: This book is amazing.
Review: I thought, going in, that nothing would compare to Ender's Game. It is uncanny, the way that Ender's Shadow adds depth and nuance to what I believed to be the best book I've ever read. While I was a little skeptical about the "creation" of Bean as a superior student to Ender, and am a little dubious of the portrayal of the final battle sequence, Ender's Shadow was well worth the 3.5 hours it took me to tear through it. Card is a master storyteller, who has come back to what has proven to be his most powerful tale, and told it from another point of view which gives the reader an even clearer glimpse into the human soul.
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