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Title: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0-8125-5070-6 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 July, 1994 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.68 (1952 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't believe the hype. I HATED THIS BOOK.
Comment: I know I'm in the extreme minority on this one, but I have to say that I just hated almost everything about this book.
Ender is the elite of the elite -- he is a 6-year old kid who possesses the most advanced physical and mental abilities of anyone that the universe has ever seen. Let me try and sum up some of his most incredible accomplishments: he figures out that he can impersonate someone else's log in name by adding a space after it, he figures out that any direction can be considered up in zero gravity, and he develops winning laser tag strategies like not assembling your troops into rigid formations. I mean, sure that's all great for a six-year old, but we're talking about the guy who we're counting on to save the universe here.
The plot itself is very thin. It's good versus evil in a video game battle. I'm sure this was all a whole lot more exciting when it was written in 1977, before the internet and when video games were in their infancy. But that is no excuse for the way over-simplified story line, the ethnically-stereotyped characters, and the painfully crude dialogue. It reads like it was written by someone who hasn't been around kids for 30 years trying to remember how kids talk.
Don't waste your time with this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, fun Sci-Fi.
Comment: The Ender series has become known, over time, as the definitive sociological science-fiction masterpieces. This sounds a little boring and doesn't do Ender's game justice. This book is one of the most fun, edge-of-my-seat books I have ever picked up. I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't enjoy reading it.
You should buy a copy for your parents, and one for your kid, they'll both love it. And two copies for yourself, just in case you ever lose you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Top 10 SF Book
Comment: I don't think it is an overstatement to say that Ender's Game is one of the top 10 science fiction books of all time. When you think about what a good story should be regardless of genre, then add an amazing SF backdrop, this novel is it. I have not read other books in the series, but I can recommend this one with the greatest enthusiasm.
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Title: Speaker for the Dead : Author's Definitive Edition by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812550757 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812575717 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Xenocide : Volume Three of the Ender Quartet by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812509250 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812522397 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812565959 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 09 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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