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Summary: Incredible
Review: This is, if you have never read any military or sci fi books before (and if you have) THE BOOK to read. It is not only exciting and thoughtprovoking, but also poignant and easy to understand. Ender's Game is one of those classic rarely found books that combines higher level thinking concepts and simple wordings that make this book great for reader's of all ages. A fair warning to first time scifi readers, all scifi books you read after this one will NOT live up to its standards. Now read the book!
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Summary: Wonderful Science-Fiction: Can't Put It Down
Review: This is an absolutely wonderful work of science fiction. I bought Ender's Game and the rest of the Ender Quartet, without knowing what they were about, but I was pleasantly surprised. Orson Scott Card is a master of weaving tales of intrigue and of creating truly deep and interesting characters that you grow to love. Never have I encountered better character development than in Card's work.Ender's Game is a terrific book, but I ended up wanting so much more. I felt like I wanted this book to be twice as long, and it seemed to end way too quickly for me. It also seemed to be a little more character focused than the other books, which can be good or bad. Overall, a superb book. The whole series is a must-read for anyone with any interest in science-fiction.
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Summary: I love it
Review: What can be said that hasnt already? amazing book. My review is here just to show I have read the book and reccomend it, but I reallly am just gonna blabber here.. This is not a well written review, it's just talk. This book is not only my favorite book, but it actually got me reading! I had not read any books on my own (not in school or because of school) since I was in 7th grade. I am a junior in high school now and I picked up this around novemeber 2002 and ever since I have been reading.. I cant believe I missed out for so long. I have read the next two books in the series (Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide) and I liked both... However Enders Game is the first book and even though I tend to think of "SPeaker For THe Dead" as an equal it would not be a good book if you did not read "Enders Game", even though it is a totally different story. Xenocide was a good book, but nothing more.. I didnt like the ending and the whole book was tiresome to read...
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Summary: Starter's Game
Review: I read this book when I was in 5th grade. It was the very first science fiction book I ever read--in fact, it was the first great book I ever read. I'm in 10th grade now, and I still think of this book as being one of the best I have ever read. When I read it back then, I couldn't believe what I was reading, it was so good! This was back when I read RL Stine and Bruce Colville, and this was just one big amazement that there was so much better literature out there. Since that time I have read a lot of Stephen King, Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh...Ender's Game was the one and only science fiction book I ever took the time to read, I don't really know why. I've read a little bit now of Philip K. Dick, and it made me think of this book, and now I think I am going to read it again, just to see if it is as good as it was back then. I think it will be. I remember a tremendous ending that left me in awe, I can't remember details though. Read this.
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Summary: A must read
Review: Ender's Game is a truely amazing book, by a truly amazing author. This book is fast paced, entertaining, and fascinating. Ender is perhaps one of the most likable characters in all of science fiction, and he is very well rounded and believable. All of the supporting characters in the cast are also believable enough that, by the end of book, you feel as if you know them all. Card's very believable (and completely original) look at training for space warfare, and fighting an enemy you don't understand, make this book stand out far above most of the sci-fi universe.
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Summary: Excellent Sci-Fi thriller
Review: I had to read this book in my 9th grade class. This is the first school book I have ever enjoyed. It can get kind of intense at some points, so I wouldn't recommend it for younger kids, but it is an amazing read for older individuals. It is incredibly written, and you really get into the book. I wound up finishing the book in three days, I couldn't put it down. I recommend it very highly.
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Summary: Ender's Game: The Birth of a Saga
Review: The world is scared. It is terrified. An alien race has attacked the earth twice. Both times humanity has miraculously escaped destruction and annihilation, but now the fate of earth is about to be decided and the final battle for humanity is about to be fought. Who will be the savior of mankind?-Andrew Wiggins, a six-year-old boy who has been watched and raised for the sole purpose of preventing the end of humanity and forever removing the threat of an alien race.
This book, Ender's Game, by New York Times best selling author Orson Scott Card, is a Hugo and Nebula Award winner which has stood the test of time among millions of readers for almost twenty years. It is a book which has found and retained many avid fans since its first publication in 1977, which has motivated and urged Card to continue this saga into an in-depth series which takes the reader farther into the universe of Ender. This first book of the Ender saga is an amazing novel that inspires and empowers the reader. It allows the reader to see the innocence and simplicity of childhood, while at the same time the human nature in all of us to survive at any and all costs. Card does an amazing job of grabbing the reader from the opening scenes and tightening his grip until the final few pages when everything comes full circle.
In Ender's Game, Card introduces us to Andrew Wiggins a.k.a. Ender, a young boy who has been raised and trained from birth to be a leader, a commander and, as his name suggests, an ender to not only this war with the alien race of "Buggers", but all wars against them. The reader and Ender simultaneously come to realize that Ender's usefulness lies in arriving to "the point of no return." If Ender can be made to feel like there are only two options kill or be killed-then he can thus become an impenetrable marvel in his survival. Card uses childlike precision in describing Ender's peaceful, yet volatile temper as he searches out every avenue for peace, only to find that violence, often times, is the only catalyst for this sought after peace. Early on in the book Ender is faced with the decision of fight or flight as a gang of older boys accost him. Knowing that running will only encourage the boys to continually antagonize him, Ender chooses to fight. He beats the leader of the gang into unconsciousness and, when asked why he didn't stop when the boy was knocked down, Ender replies, "Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone."
From this, the reader may question Cards' view on violence as a solution for hostility, but perhaps he is suggesting more than what we see. This book encourages the reader to see the sacrifice of the few for the betterment of the many.
At the age of six, Ender becomes this sacrifice as he leaves his home and begins his training in battle school-a place where games are played to teach combat skills and separate the leaders from the followers. These games, however, take on a larger meaning to Ender, who is not asked to merely lead but to win-at any and all costs, no matter the circumstance or handicap placed upon him. Ender's ability to be manipulated in these games is carefully stretched to the breaking point by his superiors as they place him in near hopeless circumstances, only to one day help him succeed. Ender must win these games, for one day the games will end and the real battle will begin.
Sci-fi fan or not, all who read this book will find a love for Ender and his struggle with the "Buggers" and more importantly the struggle within him as he searches to find peace within himself.
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Summary: Ender's Game
Review: Born August 24, 1951 in Richmond, Virginia, Orson Scott Card volunteered as a Mormon missionary in Brazil and taught at various universities and writer workshops. In this particular book, Orson combines an advanced science and fictional society on Earth that are in significant need of help. It is 2070, forty years since a devastating alien invasion was barely turned back, and the world is desperately searching for soldiers to lead them to victory when the "Buggers" return. They are drafting young children who pass an arduous screening, and sending the best of them to the orbiting Battle School. Out of the incessant pressure of military training comes six-year-old Andrew "Ender" Wiggin. Ender struggles to keep his humanity, as the adult teacher and rival students threaten to destroy him. As the best of the best, Ender Wiggin, is forced to undergo isolation, physical and emotional adversities, and separation from all he has loved. His genius raises him to the top of then intensely competitive games it the Battle Room. His real struggles are off the playing field, with a dangerous older boy, Bonzo Madrid, who is determined that both he and Ender cannot survive in this place, with his teacher Mazer Rackham. As humanity pins its hopes on one boy, life takes a different toll for Ender Wiggin as situations intensify.
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Summary: One of the best Sci-fi books I've read
Review: Great author, great characters, great story. This is one of my all-time favorite books, and people of all ages will love it! People say that science-fiction books are about aliens, spaceships, in-space battle wars...well, for this book it's true. It's not your typical everyday story though. You may be used to stories about heroic characters going on a mission, coming home victorious with people loving and surrounding him/her. Well, the hero of THIS story just wants to stay with his beloved sister Valentine -- but he can't. Ender Wiggin is sent to space around the age of six to train to become one of the most famous commanders of the military. I know what you're thinking, and you're right. Pure child prodigy. Actually, the entire school where he trains at is full of them; military geniuses, of course. Ender just happens to be the smartest of them all. Others resent him for it and are willing to hurt, or even kill him, to bring him down. The teachers won't help at all, and believe this will help him save the world. Ender just knows that if he's able to pull this off he can go home. I'm going to stop talking now! If you look at the better written reviews above and below me, you will see that this is a GREAT book. I've read it again and again, and it only gets better the more you read it.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: By far, this is the most inspiring, beautiful, moving book I have ever read. A masterpiece.
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