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Enjoyed to the End | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card

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	• Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Starscape, 2002 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 2520 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I doubt there is anything different that I could say ..

.. so I'll just write my experience.

I read a scifi or fantasy book about every 2 weeks. I have done so for 40 years. I opened this book on a boat going from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas. I did not put it down until I had read the last page. Very few books have had me so addicted. Maybe Pinocchio when I was 10 or Dancers at the end of time by Moorcock.

Warning: This book is ADDICTIVE. Do not pick it up unless you have several hours to spare in order to finish it.

Ender's game is recommended entertainment

Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
This book has a futuristic setting in a time of space travel where it takes years to get to outer planets. In the background of the story, there have been two attempts by an alien species to take over Earth. The main character, Ender Wiggin, is a brilliant boy chosen to attend battle school on a space station. In school, he is picked on, especially by his brother, because he is a third (usually there are only two kids in a family in this book). Ender, 6, is the youngest to become a soldier in the battle simulator game room with kids as old as 14. Each army has 40 kids. The two armies attack each other from gates on opposite sides into the no gravity battle zone. Ender was told not to shoot at the other team by his first commander, Bonzo, who wants to trade him the second he sees him. He chooses to shoot the laser gun to freeze the other team anyway and places on top of the standings. He is traded to a different army that he does even better and still he is on top of the scores. During his training, he misses the Earth and his sister, Valentine. A game that was installed in his computer for training creates issues in his imagination. The game is played through the players' thoughts and Ender saw his sister and his brother.
Soon, he is a platoon leader and then becomes a commander of his own army, Dragon. His team wins every time and once against two whole armies. The school's commander graduates Ender, now 10 years old, into the next rank of school. Usually command school is for 16 year olds with 4 years of pre-command school experience. His new teacher was the hero of the 2nd invasion during the Bugger Wars. That time humanity was saved by Mazar Rackham who destroyed the queen bugger making every bugger born to her die almost instantly. Ender is taught how to use a simulated battle as a commander. There are friends and other soldiers he met in battle school on his side against the simulated buggers. He learns something each time. Soon he is almost doing it in his sleep. He wins each time. When the real thing happens, will he be ready for this challenge to invade the buggers and wipe them out? Read this book to find the answer.

Ender's game was a well written science fiction book. The story line was good in a way that it was unpredictable what would happen next. The plot line of the teachers and higher officers was very surprising to me. The thing that bothered me the most was the children's bad language. That is why I recommend this book to age 12+. You had to be mature while reading this book.

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Enjoyed to the End

very engaging book - good for teens and adults. I will probably pick up some of the sequels at some point...

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Ender's Game: Why it's a Classic

Orson Scott Card tells a futuristic tale, yet it is only a prediction of what the modern world would look like. In Ender's Game, he explains the hardships of gifted children who are isolated in order to develop prowess.

Card is a writer of various genres including science fiction, fantasies, biblical works, and guides to writing. He also writes screenplays, which are possibly influenced by the encouragement of plays by the Mormon Church in his childhood. He writes commentaries in "Uncle Orson Reviews Everything," a writing column which appears online, as well as giving his opinions on culture, politics, and the world. In fact, he offers writing assist programs, which are offered on his website.

Card clearly demonstrates the tales of Ender that he created and displays his goal throughout. As an example, Bonzo, an elder, Hispanic student, abhors Ender because he disobeyed Bonzo's orders and assaults him. A cornered Ender manages to overcome Bonzo and injures him. As a result, Ender believes he is a murderer like his diabolical brother Peter because he harmed others. Ender struggles himself because of his discoveries of possible similarities with his nemesis sibling. Unlike his brother, Ender does not take pride in destroying others and commits this action because he is often pushed into situations which demand physical defense. This portrayal and situation in the novel justifies Ender's actions. Card connects many readers to the feelings and situations Ender has to endure. In fact, people who read the book believe they are similar to Ender.

Although Ender's epic quest in the military academy as well as his hardships draw the readers' attention, the novel does not challenge them with difficult vocabulary or language. However, this is not the intent of Card, who instead exercises a simple array of vocabulary in order to allow his novel to be understood by many people, and this is part of the reason the book managed to achieve its success.

(data from paragraph 2 from: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about-more.shtml)

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provacative and captivating!

In totality, I believe that Enders Game is a very provocative book. Its science fiction but it has the ability to be viewed as truth and reality. The book grabs you and keeps you engaged. You may find yourself finishing this lengthy piece in a few hours. It is full of stimulating ideas and a view of a future society.
The beginning is written wonderfully, giving you a feeling as if you're living in their society. It gives an eerie view of the future with the world being split up into separate alliances. The world as we know it was in two wars with an life force from the universe known as the Bugger, and are preparing for the third invasion.
The book gives a believable view of the future of the world and what a atmospheric war would look like. The book has parts that you may find disturbing, but it's intriguing and fascinating at the same time so you don't notice them as much. The book portrays the life of a boy who is isolated from society, and it shows how pressure and responsibilities can make you crack. Censorship of media and the secrecy of information by a world government can have corrupting effects in the future. The book is a fascinating read, that I believe anyone would enjoy.

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