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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Feb 5, 2008
Pros: Great sci-fi themes, exciting, engaging story, suspense, action, "big ideas."
Cons: Stilted language, some violent scenes...
Summary: At some point in the mid-1980's, my parents gave me the book "Ender's Game." I liked Star Wars and Star Trek, and had already read dozens of Star Wars and Star Trek books, but after I read about twenty pages and realized it was a science fiction book, I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 23, 2008
Pros: Intense plot, great characters, thought provoking
Cons: Not exactly a "children's" book as it is marketed.
Summary: My best friend read Ender's Game in middle school. She tried to get me to read it too, but for some reason I resisted. I finally read it, after having lost contact with said friend, in my freshmen year of college. I was floored. First, a bit of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 17, 2007
Pros: Action
Cons: Emotions
Summary: I am a junior at a San Diego high school. I drive a 1987 Corvette with 400+ Horsepower, and I have recently read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. The thing I liked the most about this book was the amount of action that it had, I like action. It helped ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 16, 2007
Pros: THis book is easy to read and understand.
Cons: Even though there is character development, none of them are "good-guys" or "bad-guys."
Summary: My name is Cassie and I attend high school in San Diego. In my English class, I had the assignment of reading Ender’s Game so that is why I read it. I believe I am well qualified to comment on this book because I have thoroughly read and analyzed it. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 5, 2007
Pros: Ender's Game is exciting and inspiring
Cons: Ender's Game is also unrealistic
Summary: I read Ender’s Game for a reading requirement in my high school English class, where I have participated in many discussions on the novel with my peers. Having read all of the books from the Lord of the Rings trilogy I have become somewhat of a ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 11, 2006
Pros: Fast-paced and interesting. Doesn't require prior knowledge or reading.
Cons: Pointless sub-plots. Long.
Summary: This was not the first Card book I read, but it is one of my favorites. It is technically a sci-fi book. However, it holds a lot of appeal for people like myself, who tend to lose interest in ordinary science fiction novels, with their long pages of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 13, 2006
Pros: Battle School, especially the Battle Room
Cons: Very little detail of the events elsewhere
Summary: In the distant future, mankind has been driven to the brink of oblivion after reaching out to the stars and discovering that we are not alone. A horrifying race of creatures known only as the buggers started competing for the same worlds that humans had ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 6, 2004
Pros: Has everything fiction requires and lots of it
Cons: You can only read it once for the first time.
Summary: Plot Summary: Earth is recovering from an attack by an alien species: the buggers. In order to protect humanity, Battle School was founded; a school for training children in the art of war. These brilliant minds will be the future leaders of Earth's ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 30, 2004
Pros: *Great for science fiction lovers.
*Nebula and Hugo awards winner.
Cons: *No cons. I love this book.
Summary: When I started to read this book and I noticed the main character was a little six years old boy, I said "Oh, no! This is going to be Harry Potter and The Space Ship", But just a few pages later my mind was totally and positive changed. This book is not ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 24, 2004
Pros: Very novel ideas, as themes are deep and intriguing to contemplate
Cons: can be slow at certain points, but never really dull
Summary: A shocking truth capped by a somewhat bittersweet end plays out as the main emphasis of Card's Ender's Game. The appearance of a young adult quick science fiction read is dangerously misrepresented, as the themes portrayed in the book are at times very ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 24, 2004
Pros: Battle School and the battle descriptions
Cons: 5 year olds talking like they're 50
Summary: I read this book back in college (instead of reading my pharmacology text, haha) thanks to a recommendation by an ex-boyfriend. Quite honestly, I didn't think I'd like it since our personalities clashed, but to my surprise, I loved it so much, I bought ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 14, 2004
Pros: Excellent Characters that you can really care about.
Entertaining Story, action, and an interesting plot.
Cons: The book was a little short.
Summary: When my fiance handed me Ender's Game, I was skeptical. We are both big science fiction fans, yet do not share precisely the same taste within the genre. I don't always jump to read the military sci-fi, I am a bigger fan of the hard sci-fi stories like ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 11, 2003
Pros: One of the greatest SF books I have ever read.
Cons: Not for someone wanting light "aeroplane" reading. Requires attention.
Summary: To be frank, I dived into this book and emerged feeling like someone had smacked me in the face with a piece of four-by-two. (A large plank of wood for those unfamiliar with the term) Seriously 'gob-smacked'. Not only had I become utterly immersed in th ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 2, 2003
Pros: Engaging story. Good language. Great writing.
Cons: None spring to mind.
Summary: This review is going to give away several key aspects of the plot, so if you'd rather be surprised by reading the book, please read no further.
Orson Scott Card wrote the basic story for Ender's Game in the 1970s.
It is the story of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 23, 2003
Pros: Intriguing characters, highly intense plot, great psychological development of Ender
Cons: Some language may not be suitable for too young of an audience
Summary: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, is one of the greatest books I have read. Upon checking this book out at the library I thought, "Sci-Fi? This is going to be stupid and ridiculously unbelievable." Boy was I wrong. I finished this 324 page book in ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 17, 2003
Pros: A marvelously engineered construction
Cons: Some parts are pasted-on papier-mache
Summary: Reading Ender’s Game was, for me, a wonderful and yet disturbing experience. Rarely, if ever, has a book (or a series, or an author) elicited such strong positive and negative reactions from me at the same time.
This book won the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 9, 2002
Pros: Excelent character development, great plot and story, overall a wonderful read.
Cons: None.
Summary: Ender's Game is an amazing novel full of surprises and excitement that you can only find out by reading the book. It took the science fiction world by storm and won both Hugo and Nebula. There is good reason for that.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 9, 2002
Pros: amazing characters, believable but almost supernatural.
Cons: kinda violent, deeply emotional-past crying
Summary: This is the best book I have ever read. It's about this military genius that calls himself Ender (short for Andrew) who is put in "Battle School" to defend the human race against buggers, bug-like organisms with one mind in the bunch of thousands. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 4, 2002
Pros: Brilliant premise, outstanding execution, many sequels
Cons: None
Summary: Other than the Dune series, which is a whole different genre, Ender's game is the best Sci Fi book I've ever read. It is second on my alltime list only to Don Quixote. The story is beautiful and wonderfully told - from the eyes of a little boy thrust ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 11, 2002
Pros: A book that boys and girls, young and old, can all enjoy.
Cons: A long series that will be hard to put down.
Summary: The novel, Ender's Game is an amazing tale that will take you on a journey into the depths of space. It will also take you to the depths of human behavior, showing you what happens when children are treated as soldiers and relied on to save the world. ... read more
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