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The Ender Wiggin Saga: Includes Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead/Exnocide

The Ender Wiggin Saga: Includes Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead/Exnocide

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: my point of view
Review: Lot's of people think you should stop after you've read the first one, Do not the second and third ones are much better if you like what is a bit philosophical. They are the best books I've read for a long time. I would advise these 3 wonderful books to everybody.

Rating: 0 stars
Summary: I thank everyone for reading my book, it was fun to write.
Review: My book that I wrote, was my favorite to write of the story series

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the most important sci-fi series ever written.
Review: Orson Scott Card's writing is unmached in this series. Not only is the science gripping, but the sorrow you feel for Ender is unnerving.

The best and truest sci-fi I have ever read!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Amazing thriller that leaves you with abmigous feelings
Review: The best SF book iv'e ever read after "Battle Field Earth" (L.Ron.Hubberd) you grow up with Ender Wiggin - You think alike and you allways have that feeling of a missed childhood for poor Ender - The Saviour of the world

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Starts with a bang, ends with a wimper
Review: The Ender Wiggin Saga starts with one of the best science-fiction books I have ever read. The last book, despite the author's attempts, fizzles so that although the world is about to be destroyed, I found myself indifferent to the plight of the characters. It is not that the story became unbearable, but that all of the characters were so old that I figured they would die soon anyway.

The first book in the series, Ender's Game, documents the life of Ender from the age of six to the age of twelve. Standing alone, I would rate this book a ten out of ten. It is a fantastical thought provoking tale that explores the border between the power of the mind and the weakness of the heart.

The second book, set in Ender's fourties, is a complete departure from Ender's Game. Instead of being an unseasoned young boy wrestling with his emotion, he is a middle-aged man who has been tempered by a lifetime of experience. Ender helps ease the turmoil of a family on a distant planet. It is a good story, though the issues it deals with are certainly less thought-provoking. Speaker for the Dead deals with basic psychology, not the human soul.

The third book, Xenocide, simply lacks momentum enough to be the fast-paced novel that Ender's Game proved to be. At this point in the story, Ender is very old. That in itself was the most hindering factor for me as I read this book, because I felt as though when I first met him he was younger than me and now as the series ends, he has lived a lifespan six-fold that of my own. When reading Xenocide I feel as though I am sitting in a hospital waiting room wondering when Ender is going to kick the bucket.

My advice? Read the first book, Ender's Game. If you simply must know what happened to Ender, read the rest of the trilogy. However, if you're in it for the power of the printed word, stop there; the other two just coast gradually to a stop.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Few books can enter your mind like Ender's Game can.
Review: There is only one series of books in this world that I can truthfully say I have read over one-hundred times. There is only one series of books that give me something new every time I read them. Ender's Game and the books that follow and coinside with it are truly special in their ability to tell a story that reflects human emotion so vividly that you enter the story. I've looked through Ender's eyes as he prevailed through all that was thrown at him. I've cried when he was bent and twisted to the will of his trainers. I've felt for his sister when she realized that Ender had truly lost something of what he used to be. Then finally, I became both angry and relieved when in the end, there was victory yet a victory that Ender couldn't walk away from... it would forever be a haunting vision deep in his mind. I pitied him, as if he were a dear friend. For to me, he was. Thank you Orson Scott Card. You've made me love a child, and a man, I've never met but whom I would lay my life down for. Thank you.


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