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Summary: ENDERS GAME THE LITERARY ROOT CANAL
Review: The only thing worse then reading this book is a root cannal. I have been assigned to read this book and dreaded every line of words. The book has little to no bases and keeps you struggling through the whole thing thinking it might have gotten better, but nobody should read this book who is above the fifth grade level of reading. The only reason I gave this book a 3 is i had found the little bases it had in the beginning was alright. It had been good with full detail in the beginning. I WOULD USE THIS BOOK AS A COASTER INSTEAD OF A BOOK TO LEARN IT WAS WORTHLESS.
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Summary: GREAT BUT PREDICTABLE
Review: Ender's game is the best book to ever be published in the Russian Republic or through out the world for that matter. I thought the characters were well developed and the setting was great. The game at the battle school was great and the ending are great. However the book is very predictable and I could tell what would happen ahead of time. But all in all it was a good book. In the movie I would like to play Ender even though I'm a 50 year old dentist.
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Summary: The one thing better than EG is 17 hours of eye surgery.
Review: My name is Kevin Goulding and I go to Desert Ridge Middle School. "Ender's Game was a beautiful story of a young boy." Yeah right. I read this book in school and was extremely disappointed. I can understand breeding military genuises, but 6 years old? Nobody acts that much like an adult when they are six years old! No matter how much genetics takes over, you are not going to get a genius that young. All of these characters are incredibly unreal in the way they talk and act. You can only imagine how bad Ender felt when he found out that we were going to attack those poor, innocent little buggers. If you read the back cover, you read that they have almost destroyed Earth. How could you feel bad for them? Then the last 2 chapters went by so fast and pointlessly that I was left feeling confused when I finally finished that piece of literary garbage. Read some other reviews and you'll hear people spewing out trash about how great the book is. For the most part it was not descriptive, and I could not visualize the games, the ships, or the characters. Ender's Game was definitely worth a 1 to me.
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Summary: An Exciting and Magnificent Story of Sceince Fiction.
Review: Hello. My name is Brittany Kelm and I am in seventh grade at Desrt Ridge Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.I was assigned to read this book in an Enriched Language Arts/Literature class. At first I was skeptical about this assignmeent because I usually don't like Science Fiction. The new introduction at the beginning was intriguing. It helped me to learn about the author and why he wrote this book. The story of how he thought about the novel's "ingredients", told me that is was worth reading for curosity's sake. I loved the way he told how he felt that genetics would take over. I feel that the world will lead to something similar, and that unless we did something about it, this book would soon be a reality of some sort. The book draws you in earlier than most books, and explains every detail what we need to know about the characters, the setting, and the mood.
I feel that this book should be read by every Middle schooler that has axcess to it. Adults could read, and understand the book as well as I did, and they might have the same ideas about the way it was written. I hope that this book will be a favorite for years to come. Best Wishes to all who read in search of a good book.
Sincerely,
Brittany Kelm
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Summary: A wonderful book, full of suspence and novel ideas.
Review: Ender's Game was a novel that I couldn't put down. It gave me a graphic idea of how enriched children can think. It described Ender as a brilliant six-year old that is as mature and hard-working as any adult. The action this book has is mind-gripping and I, a seventh-grader at Desert Ridge Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, would say that it is probably one of the best books I've ever read. Orson Scott Card shows you his vision of how the future could be, and pulls you in with every word. "His reach was better, he was stronger, and he was full of hate. He will go for my head, thought Ender. And if this fight is long, he's bound to win. If I'm to walk away from here, I have to win quickly, and permanantely."
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Summary: It was a great book, that everyone in mid-school should read
Review: It was the only book I have ever read that pulled me in to it so early in the book. I am in the 7th grade in Albuquerque, New Mexico.I like when enders army (dragon) came into the battle room late and used their soldieres as shields while the smaller guys hid behind them and shot the enemies. I also liked when he kicked stiltsons, and bonzos butts.
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Summary: The Gifted
Review: Ahhh, the sign of a good novel is the (small) minority that really loathes the book, the majority that can't stop praising it, and the near total lack of middle ground. Not that long ago, I read the short story version of Ender's Game, and it was truly a struggle to get through. After reading the novel, it honestly hurt. Then I realized that the story had won the Hugo and Nebula awards before ever becoming a novel... Over the years, I've seen this book on reading lists for several gifted/talented programs, for obvious reasons. Obviously, those who don't appreciate this book are either unable to emphasize with the superior mind trapped in a body that encourages patronizing or cannot find it within themselves to get past the hackneyed alien/human war where neither side understands the other. This was my book of the year for 1995, in no small part because I identified with the hero, despite the fact that he was 6. Hell, I'm gifted, talented and whatnot, being more intelligent than at least 99.9%(ahh, modesty shines through) of the population, and I've known that since I was 6. Honestly, I was hooked from the moment Ender mentioned the doubling thing(and here I thought me and my brother were the only freaks in the world ever did that when incredibly bored), being personally able to get into the billion range before losing track. Some say that Ender is a walking, talking bad rendition of an adult in a 6-year old body, but I know bloody well that a good deal of Ender's thoughts passed my mind before I hit 10, even if I never saved the world from total destruction. I do find it rather amusing when people try to summarize the plot into one sentence to make it look bad, since the mere existence of plot summaries are beyond me. They're much akin to answering the question "What's that book about?", knowing that any response short of a 10-minute spiel will sound idiotic in the extreme. Naturally this book has numerous weaknesses, being early in OSC's career, but the strength is in what originally gave the short story its awards, the "game" and its rather multilayered ideas(Though it ain't quite up to Ranmapunk or Chris Claremont's Aliens vs. Predators) that unlike most books, make it enjoyable after several reads. Even more astonishing, I didn't get every nuance of the book in my first read, which usually only happens when I'm reading stuff I have no idea of the background material(who the hell cares anymore about politics centuries ago anyway). And above all, it must be remembered that OSC is writing this from the perspective of a 6-year old in orbit; its rather impractical that an extensive review of mankind's history from present to the start of book be displayed in any context. Anyway, this is a damned good read(even if every 15 pages or so I had to laugh that Ender was 6) except perhaps the weak ending. One caution, the sequels aren't nearly as good. While structurally superior and with a more original premise, Ender as an adult isn't nearly as engaging, and the story gets rather tedious after awhile, especially when OSC's philosophies(bloody Mormons) become intrusive. Somehow the sequels lose the original thrust, and while the not bad, the inspiring ideas have been done better by several notable authors who I conveniently cannot remember right now(remember, you can have a crap memory and be a genius:P) If nothing else, Ender is great wish fulfillment for anybody who can still remember their childhood(there goes that identification factor again) and a game I hope they devise before I'm too decrepit to play it.
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Summary: This book is not to be taken seriously! Read it for **FUN**!
Review: When it comes to Sci-Fi novels, there are good writes, there are bad writers, and there is Orson Scott Card. What distinguishes him from the rest is that he makes his characters strong and diligent. They are believable in the context that they are placed. He doesn't randomly pick traits from a hat, he gives birth to a new human being thats is unique in every way. And in Ender's Game, he has birthed a creature that is both all powerful, and weak. Brilliantly written, engrossing and finely detailed, Ender's Game is a MUST for anyone who believes that childhood is something that should be held sacred. And if you don't, well, read it anyway! :) It's a fun book, so don't judge it by its seriousness.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS REALLY GREAT !
Review: I was recommended to read Ender's game by a guy in the library. I didn't know him, but I'm VERY happy that he told me about it, because the Swedish edition didn't look so inviting(You all know how easy it is to judge a book by it's cover), so if he hadn't told me about it, I wouldn't know what an EXCELLENT writer Orson Scott Card is. The characters! The plots! Everything! I would have given it a 10 if I wasn't so unsure of my own ability to judge things. But now I am, so a 9 is all it gets! I haven't read the last book yet, but I will, I promise, even though so many people have written so much bad things about it(check out the comments of "Children of the mind" and you will understand what I'm talking about). Well, I won't take any more of your time then, bye! END
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Summary: This book rules!!
Review: The setting in this book is in two places. One of them is here on Earth, and the other is in outer space. Ender is taken to Battle School when he is six years old. The plot of the book is to breed military geuiesus so that when the next Bugger invasion comes the humans will win. The characters in the book are Ender, Valentine, Peter, Bonzo, Graff, Mazer, Alai,Benard, and Petra. My opinion of this book is that it is very interesting. You have to remember what you have read.
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