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On the flight there Ender demonstrates his ability to brilliantly visualize gravitational effects, and Graff begins to isolate him from his fellow classmates. Ender lives with the new recruits, called Launchies.

He makes a few friends among the recruits and ends his isolation, although his brilliance will never cease causing resentment. Inside the battleroom, Ender figures out how to maneuver in null gravity, along with another recruit named Alai. Ender and Alai become friends, and this helps Ender fit in with the rest of the group. Ender manages to get farther in one of the computer games, called the mind game, than anyone ever had before him, and although he does not know, the military commanders take notice.

Ender is abruptly promoted to Salamander Army. There Ender is befriended by Petra Arkanian, the only girl in the army. The army commander, Bonzo Madrid, does not like Ender and does not want him around. Ender practices with Petra and begins to teach his launch group what he knows. Ender helps the army by disobeying Bonzo, who hates Ender, but fortunately Ender is traded to Rat Army. Ender is put in Dink Meeker's platoon.

Dink is an excellent toon leader, and Ender does well in battles. He continues teaching his Launchies, even though this causes resentment among other soldiers. Ender gets into a fight and he hurts four older boys who attack him. Edwards Award Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Ender's Game , please sign up.

If you're trying to get into some good old fashion bigoted science fiction writing is this a good book? Brian Beasley Gina I think you took Master's question too seriously and missed the word "bigoted" in the question.

To Master I take it you are being sarcastic with y …more Gina I think you took Master's question too seriously and missed the word "bigoted" in the question. To Master I take it you are being sarcastic with your question but I will bite anyways. I don't know why people accuse this book of the things they do actually I do. Yes, Card is a conservative and he's admittedly a homophobe as well but neither of those things come through in this book.

You have to look pretty hard to find anything "bigoted" in the book and the themes in Ender's Game have nothing to do with any sort of bigot revolution or anything.

If anything there is a strong pacifist message that you would think would be the opposite of most conservative's mentalities. This series confuses me Can anyone help me out and clear somethings up?

Zchantie I know this is an old question, but I wanted to add to it since I read the books in an order that I regretted. So you have the first Series: 'The Ender …more I know this is an old question, but I wanted to add to it since I read the books in an order that I regretted.

So you have the first Series: 'The Ender Quintet' 1. Ender's Game 2. Speaker for the Dead 3. Xenocide 4. Children of the Mind The parallel series that follows the character Bean who appears in the first Ender's Game book and then gets his own series known as the "Shadow Saga" 1.

Ender's Shadow 2. Shadow of the Hedgemon 3. Shadow Puppets 4. Shadow of the Giant 5. I read this book directly after Ender's Game as suggested and regretted it immensely. Within this book is also an important part of Bean's story. As then you will know the end fate of all of the characters in Shadow Saga. My recommendation.

Read Ender in Exile after you've finished both series if you're interested in knowing what Ender was doing between the end of Game and beginning of Speaker.

See all 79 questions about Ender's Game…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Ender's Game Ender's Saga, 1. Shelves: take-yo-sexist-ass-out-of-here , watch-for-flying-tables-everybody , couldn-t-finish , not-worth-the-hype , le-sigh.

Sincerely, Women. Or, if you want, go ahead. If you're going to comment, at least read the whole review and not just a quarter of it. I'm so sick of repeating myself over and over in the comments. Yes, I bash the author first, but I do make my points on why I hated the book itself, and not just because of him. Thank you.

Sincerely, Kat. First of all, before I get into the book, I'd like to say that Orson Scott Card is one of the biggest dicks on this Earth. For those of who don't know, he is openly homophobic and a hyprocrite www.

He is a Chauvinist known to believe that women are the weaker sex and were only put on this world to make babies. He is a Mormon that, from what I've heard from people who've read his other books, tries to convert you in his own writing in his novels. Just for this author's personality, this book deserves one star.

But now onto the actual book, which deserves one star in itself. It's interesting and keeps your attention. But immediately, the sexism shows its ugly face; "All the boys are organized into armies. They don't often pass the tests to get in. Too many centuries of evolution are working against them. There are several things wrong with this sentence. In this day and age, thousands of women are in the military and fighting for their country.

They have been for decades now, and longer still. So if this is supposed to be in the future, does Card think that women will give up their ability to fight so easily? Centuries of evolution working against them? On what terms? That we have ovaries? That we can have babies so are therefore unfit to fight or have the mental capacity to pass the tests boys can easily pass? This is the 21st century, genius.

Women work. Women are in the army. Get your head out of your ass and look around, for fuck's sakes. Characters I feel that Card made all the characters far too young. Ender is six, Valentine is eight, and Peter is ten. Peter has a fetish for torturing squirrels and threatening to kill his siblings. Um, okay? Is there any explanation for this strange behavior?

No, because according to this book, all our kids in the future are fully functioning psychopaths. Except the girls, of course. They're too 'mild' for behavior like that. In the future, the army is apparently full of kids barely older than six, up to age twelve.

To be trained for a war that, as far as I could tell from the point I got to, was already won. Writing The writing was atrocious. Card switches from third person perspective to first person constantly. The first person switches are for the character's 'thoughts', but the words aren't italicized or anything so you can never tell. To me, that's a sign of bad writing. If you can't stick with one kind of perspective, than you should go back to those non-existent creative writing classes. Plot Towards the middle of the book, the plot started to seriously drag and get outright ridiculous.

Valentine and Peter start planning to 'take over the world' by writing fucking debate columns. Not only is the whole 'let's rule the world' concept highly overused, it's poorly planned out. It's randomly thrown into the story like, "Okay, we need more villains and more things happening, so let's make the ten year old girl and twelve year old murderous boy try to take over the world! Then, switching back to Ender, who is now nine years old and a commander of his own kid army, we have our main character turning into the bullying idiots that bullied him in the beginning of the book.

Has he learned nothing? Oh sure, it makes the kids 'better soldiers'. They're not even seven years old, they are not fucking soldiers. The whole story is a fucked up version of a 'kid military' which is run by controlling adults who don't want the war to end so they can remain in power.

It got so tedious and irritating that I decided to give up on it. I'm not going to waste my time with a book written by a sexist, homophobic, dickwad. I'm not even going to see the movie, which is a real shame because I love Asa Butterfield. View all comments. Nicholas A Rudy Who hurt you? Oct 01, Ruchita rated it did not like it Shelves: fiction , sci-fi , did-not-like.

I really did. It's a wonder that even after more than halfway into the book, I still clung on to the foolishly optimistic notion that the book would somehow redeem itself. That it would end up justifying the tedious, repetitive, drearily dull chapters I trundled through over the course of several days which is unusual, since I'm generally a fast reader. It pains me to say it, as a hardcore fangirl of science fiction, that one of sci-fi's most beloved and highly regarded novels did not do it for me.

Actually, that is understating it. Deep breaths. Let that sink in. Let the hate flow through you. Good, strike me down I am unarmed. Now let's get to it. Was it because the expectations I had in my mind were unreasonably high and thus were responsible for ruining the book for me? No way. I make no bones about the fact that Ender's Game, regardless of the respect and popularity it commands in sci-fi circles, is an inherently bad novel. Why, though, you might ask. Why such vitriol for the book?

Here you are, then. Battle games, beating the shit out of kids, battle games, switching back and forth to Armies, battle games. It was so repetitive that I was exhausted at the end of every. Page after page after page of six year old, seven year old, eight year old Ender and his buddies zooming about in ships trying to freeze one another's socks off.

There are no motivations. You never learn anything about the characters except that they are the good guys or the bad guys. Ender is brilliant at everything. Not once. Bernard, Stilson and Co. They're evil baddies cause dey r jealuz of ender's brilliance omg!!! That's it. No background, no depth, no internal conflicts. No motivation. Words cannot express how two-dimensional and woefully lacking in personality the characters are. What the heck was that all about?

I appreciate Card's prescience about the 'Nets' and blogging before it was around, but come on, this is pushing it a bit too far. How, I beg you, how are we supposed to take the idea that a pair of kids end up taking the world by posting in online forums and blogging? As if we people of the internet didn't have enough delusions of grandeur already.

I'm talking about Mazer's Rackham explaning view spoiler [the buggger's communications system hide spoiler ] to Ender. As for the 'twist ending': I honestly, and I mean, honestly did not find that riveting. It was predictable and, worse, did not justify all that I had to read to make my way to the end.

I say this as a high-school nerd in my own day, as the reviled and hated and made-fun-of socially awkward kid who wanted to be good at whatever they did. But that doesn't make me any more sympathetic to Ender. Honestly, I fail to see what's so great about Ender anyway. I am so infuriated at Card for this. Apart from Ender's claim to intelligence which is never completely explained, by the way there is nothing, NOTHING, that is worth justifying him as the protagonist of one of scifi's supposedly best books ever.

Yes, he loves his sister Valentine. Yes, he doesn't want to hurt people. Yes, he goes ahead and does it anyway. Again and again. Uhm, major wtf there. I had such hopes for this book. Not impossibly high or anything. At the very least, I had expected to like it, you know? I remember, as I worked my way past chapters 4,5,7,10, I expected it to get better. I expected myself to be mistaken at the initial dissatisfaction, then incredulity, then mild annoyance and then a string of sad sighs and resignation to dislike.

Alas, I wasn't mistaken. I felt betrayed. I thought this book was right up there with those 'kindred ones', you know? The sort of books you can come back to again and again. Instead, what I got was a bad plotline, progressively unrealistic plot developments, and a cast of flat, lifeless, unpleasant characters to boot. Ender's Game, how I wish I had loved you. Why did you forsake me thus. Nov 06, Mark Lawrence rated it it was amazing. I read this story quite a while back with no special expectations.

Like most books I read it just happened to be lying around the house. I read it, was hugely entertained, and went on to read three or four of the sequels.

I've heard since all manner of 'stuff' about the author but what's true and what isn't I don't know and I'm not here to critique the man behind the keyboard. All I can do is report on the contents of the book and those I can thoroughly recommend you check out. The main character, I read this story quite a while back with no special expectations. The main character, Ender Wiggin, through whose eyes we see the story unfold, is a child genius.

Ender's story is told because he is very far from ordinary. OSC employs a bunch of fairly standard story-telling tricks. Our hero is underestimated at every turn, he exceeds expectations, we know he's got it in him and we're frustrated by the stoopid people who just won't see it.

However, OSC manages to bake an irresistable cake using those standard ingredients and once he starts sprinkling on originality as well, you've just got to eat it all. This is sci-fi, not hard sci-fi, not soft sci-fi It has a slightly old school EE Doc Smith feel to it, and you expect someone to pull out a monkey-wrench whenever the computer starts smoking, but none of that worried me.

Given the date it was written there's some quite prescient stuff about the internet here, although shall we say Additionally the inclusion of female and Muslim characters whilst not front and centre was fairly progressive for not ground breaking but certainly ahead of the curve.

This is actually a book with good messages for the time about equality, and one which poses interesting philosophical questions about what happens with races with orthogonal thought processes come into contact, and how far one can or should go in such situations. There definitely is some characterisation going on. We're not talking Asimov's Foundation here where brilliant ideas invite you to forgive cardboard characters.

The people here are decently drawn and Ender has his own angst involving genius psychopathic siblings that is quite engaging. However, it's the stuff that goes on that drives the story. The war games in preparation for battling the aliens, the unfortunately named 'Buggers'. These war games and Ender's brilliance in overcoming increasingly dire odds are a major theme and I loved them.

And then there's the twist. I'll say no more on that except that I was too engaged with the story to see it coming, and when it hit me It doesn't work for everyone but it did for me! The film skips a lot that's important to the book, but I found it entertaining. That's pretty damn cool!

Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter prizes Highly influenced by his Mormon upbringing, in his introduction to Ender's Game Card mentions that Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy inspired him to write science fiction. He claims that in high school he was fascinated by military strategy and especially the crucial role that a leader plays in an army. The idea of the Battle Room, the game around which the novel Ender's Game is organized, came to him when he was sixteen years old, but he did not begin to write the story until years later.

Since Card came up with the basic concept of the book at such a young age it is not surprising that his young characters have considerably more penetrating thoughts and complex emotions than children in most other stories. This emphasis on children is one that Card very consciously molded, and he states that one of his goals was for everyone to have to see things from their point of view.

Although Ender is undoubtedly an exceptional child, in many ways he is very similar to all of the other characters in the book.

Card has placed descriptions where appropriate, and he always narrates in an exciting manner. One way he provokes tension in the book is by having an unidentified narrator at the beginning of every chapter.

At the beginning, the reader has no clue about who is narrating; at one time I suspected it being the Buggers, which can be quite chilling, as the unknown narrator knows everything about Ender.

Only gradually does the reader come to understand who the narrator is. Not only do we have an unknown narrator, but some chapters also switch between Ender's perspective and his family's situation. To conclude, I would recommend this book to readers over 12 years old, who are mainly interested in Science Fiction, or who are interested in knowing more about how people behave. The language is moderately strong, but also somewhat complex for younger readers.

The reason why I liked this book is because it follows a busy, unpredictable, action-packed plot, but the end of the novel is still sad and strong enough to make us reflect on our behaviour and on the book's events.

It is also gripping and exciting, and the reader never knows what will happen next. For example, at one point, another random day turns into a battle in a washroom. The beginning instantly grips you, as the reader is thrust into a new and unknown situation.