Ender's Game

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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: This is a great book about a young boy named Ender Wiggin. He is a member of a family that has three children and he happens to be the third. He is looked down upon because he is the third and a family should only have two children. He goes to a battle school and everything unfolds from there. It is a book full of excitement. It was very hard to put this book down. I am very glad that I read it.

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Summary: Interesting But Depressing
Review: This book was a very interesting book to read, however, I found certain parts of it depressing, and even disturbing. I hope the world never becomes like it is described in this book. I like the way Ender wishes he didn't have to kill all those Buggers. He doesn't want to be a killer, but he smart enough to be one, and is forced into it. That's what I don't like about this book. He is tricked into doing it without knowing that he is really killing the Buggers

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Summary: Fart Eater
Review: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is the best book I have ever read. It shows great war tactics and battle strategies and shows what potential kids can have. I thought it was stupid that the enemy was called the Buggers; it just sounds so corny and who would be afraid of a bugger? I wouldn't! I think it is hilarious kids call each other fart eaters and other funny names. I couldn't put the book down when I started reading it because it truly is the best book I have ever read because I love handballing and that's kind of what they do, so when people say the book is childish they're not wrong they just have to look at it in a different way. So that shouldn't affect your decision on whether or not you should read the book. It's positively GREAT, it is seriously the best book I have ever read, but you don't have to take my word for it, read it yourself!!!

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Summary: An Excellent Read for All Ages
Review: I guarantee that any fan of science fiction will enjoy this book, as well as many who are not. Ender's Game is the story of a young boy chosen to fight the "bugger" aliens that threaten the planet earth. Now, I like science fiction, but I'm usually not one to read books on alien invasion or outer space. However many people had recommended this book to me so I thought I'd give it a try. It was excellent because the focus wasn't on the aliens but on Ender and how such a young boy is manipulated into a fighting machine. He struggles with trying to find the fierceness he knows he'll need to fight the aliens without becoming a monster. One thing I learned from this book is that sometimes one person's well-being has to be sacrificed for the greater good of others. I'd recommend this book to anyone between the ages of thirteen and ninety-nine. All ages can relate to this book and would enjoy. Ender's Game is one of those books you simply can't put down.

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Summary: A Perfect Blend of Sci-Fi and Imagination
Review: This book has everything you could want: action, mystery, feeling, and imagination. It is about a seven-year-old boy, named Andrew Wiggin (or Ender), who is sent to a battle school in space where he is tought to be a leader, and how to fight fights. Sounds boring? The thing is this 7-year-old is the human races last hope against an alien invasion. He gets to think up strategies for fighting in zero-gravity, and is tested in simulators. But what happens when they aren't just simmulators anymore? That is what this book is about. So if you enjoy books you just can't put down, then go read Ender's Game.

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Summary: My favorite book.
Review: This book is just plain amazing. Every page makes you want to turn to the next. The characters are deep and interesting and the plot has its share of twists and turns. At the end of this book, you will be satisfied, you will be amazed, you will have a feeling of sadness and content. Sad for a little boy, taken away from his parents and his ciblings to be turned into a monster in order to eliminate a once violent species that no longer is hostile towards earth. You will be sad for Ender. Of course, only people who have read the book will understand the last couple of sentences, so read the darn book.

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Summary: Insensitive, unrealistic, sexist children's novel
Review: "Ender's Game" is about a military school for boys aged 6 to 12. In particular, it's about a "genius" boy named Ender who's about 30 IQ points smarter than your average adult Nobel laureate. Ender heroically wins fights against other boys, both individually and leading an "army" of 40 boys.

Ender never misses his parents. Occassionally he misses his sister, but he wills himself not to cry or show emotion. Being a genius makes Ender unpopular with the other boys, so he has no deep friendships, just an occasional boy who says something nice.

The military school is on a satellite, isolated above Earth, hundreds of years in the future. When I picture Orson Scott Card instead writing the same novel set in present-day Africa, with child soldiers, the insensitivity of this novel becomes apparant. And where are the girls in this future? In Scott's vision of the future, all world leaders are men.

A friend's mother, who had a Ph.D. and had once been a lab assistant for Crick and Watson, constantly told her youngest son that he was a genius and would someday be the greatest scientist who ever lived. By second grade the boy was having so many problems in school that two teachers asked him to be moved out of their classes. He's now in his mid-30s. He never graduated from college, has never held a job for long, and has little social life.

Orson Scott Card has a good imagination and can keep you turning the pages. But I found myself turning the pages despite feeling disgusted by this book. I got three-quarters of the way through and stopped reading it. [...].
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Review by Thomas David Kehoe, [...]

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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: Just finished reading Ender's Game for the fourth time, and I'm still noticing new things that I missed before. I own three copies so that I can always have two lent to friends. Everyone should read it!

And for those who want to read more about the other characters, try the other books in the series, particularly the "parallel" books starting with Ender's Shadow.

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Summary: 2nd period projects
Review: when i started reading this book i was doing it for a school project. Once i read it i found that this was a really good book. All the twist and turns that happened in this book were always a surprise. I love how the book follows ender from childhood to adulthood. the endeing of the book i never saw coming. It was compleatly from left field. I suggest that this book be cheked out by everyone.

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Summary: The Best There Is...
Review: I actually had to read Ender's Game my senior year in high school...it was definitely the best book I've ever had to read for school...and one of my top five books of all time. Orson Scott Card is a master, and he's at his finest in Ender's Game. The story of a child prodigy, Ender Wiggin is sent to a special military school for geniuses in the hopes that he -- and the others at Battle School -- can lead Earth's forces in defending the home planet against a pending alien invasion. Ender is the best of the best...and it shows in his tactical thinking. But those who run Battle School are constantly testing Ender above and beyond the other child geniuses at the school...and Ender may crack under the strain. To find out what happens...read this book...it really is some of the best SciFi ever written.