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  Enders game!!!

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  TheophileEscargot 

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  It's a classic!
  
  http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20050821

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• Abhi 

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  I plan on reading this sucker soon. Perhaps as soon as Feb.

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    Rebel26 

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    Pick it up *today*! You won't regret it!

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  Turlough H 

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  Read this a few years ago and dang, this is one good book.

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  G L 

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  Totally awesome book! One of my favorite!!

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  Alexandra 

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  Well, I loved the Ender Saga. However, the Shadow Saga (or whatever you call it in English) didn't move me as much. Ok, I understand, you mix military strategy, politics,diplomacy with the characters of the Ender Saga and hope something good will come out. I think that, for a Sci-fi book, the Shadow Saga is too ... slow. It reminds me, however, of the Dune series: the first books had a lot of action'n'plot twisters, while the last were based more on Herbert's political views. What do you think, guys ?

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    Rick S 

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    I agree. It seemed much less a fiction story per se and more a "wish list" of how things could get to be perfect. I've read probably 70% of Card's books,a nd the Shadow books were my least favorite of them.

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  Clytan F 

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  This was one very good... n a very different and satisfying ending.. I loved it!

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  Mary G 

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  I have enjoyed this series, am just ready for Shadow Puppets. The psudosceince and psudophilosophy are really interesting but do not make for light reading. If you don't put much into the books, thought that is, you will not like them much. Don't let that stop you though, these books like with most Card books, get you to think in a different way which, I think, is usually a good idea!

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    Joshua M 

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    The problem with Ender's Game is that I haven't liked any of the other books in the series at all.

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    Mrs. Darcy 

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    I agree. I love the series and they do make you think. Every now and then, on the news I'll hear some phrase or story about goings on in the world and it makes me think of this series.

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  Rachel C 

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  Am I the only one? I am about 3/4 of the way through "Speaker for the Dead" and I'm liking it BETTER than "Ender's Game".
  
  Of course, I'm not done yet, and could easily be disappointed.
  
  (No spoilers please!)

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    Quoth 

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    I love Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead as well. SftD is totally different than EG, but a fantastic read. Asa for the rest of the "series", I gave it up...

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    Gabriel Landowski 

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    Loved Ender's Game - LOVED Speaker for the Dead....

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    Vertigus 

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    Very different books. I loved Ender's game, but in the end I really preferred Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide.

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    Eric B 

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    I just finished "Speaker for the Dead" and thought it was really enjoyable. It is definitely different from "Ender's Game," but I loved Ender's progression and involvement in "Speaker for the Dead." I am also currently starting "Xenocide," but from what I have read it isn't going to live up to its predecessors.

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  Major Yggdrasil 

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  By far the best author I've ever read, Orson Scott Card blew me away with this book. It was the book that started my reading of his many works and I loved it! I love the rest of the series: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind; they are just icing on the cake! I also love the Shadow series, they provide just more information to make the entire collection a masterpiece.

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  Dreimutter (edited)

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  Enders Game was awesome. After that, Enders Shadow and Shadow Of The Hegemon are my next favorites. Children Of The Mind is OK; I don't care all that much for Xenocide or Speaker For The Dead. I enjoyed the short Christmas story that was really published about Ender and his platoon (can't remember the title off-hand.)
  
  That said, I don't really like Card's Alvin-Maker series. I enjoyed Lost Boys, and Enchantment and his Women Of Genesis series (Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel And Leah) are just excellent!
  
  Card is a very versatile author :)

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    Heather G (edited)

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    The new Ender book is called A War of Gifts. I liked it. It gives more of the story of how they lived at the Battle School. I also recomend First Meetings in the Enderverse. It has several short stories; 2 about Ender's parents and one about Ender.

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  Hali S 

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  I loved this book, I really liked Speaker for the Dead and Enders Shadow but haven't read any of the others in the series. All this talk of it makes me think I should go back and read a few of them.

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  Jacks 

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  I have an excellent book reading suggestion for those of you who enjoy Orson Scott Card-esque writing. "Terminal Mind" by David Walton is an SF-thriller kind of read, with all the right science, but with characters that are engaging, too.

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  garnenia 

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  This series is a good read! I've only reread Ender's Game recently (having read the series a few years ago), but my favorite is definitely the second, Speaker for the Dead.
  
  Has anyone read the original, the short story? It's unappreciated, but still good despite the lesser detail.

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    WriterDan 

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    Just found a book called "First Meetings" (I think that was the title) at a thrift book store last week. Has the original short story in it. Am planning on reading it sometime in the near future.

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  wayneghall 

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  It looks like I am in the minority! I was very dissapointed when I read this book. I know that it often reaches the top five of most Sci Fi lists but I thought enders game was plodding and dry. I felt no emotional resonance with any of the characters and the plot was often clumsily handled.

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    Major Yggdrasil 

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    You are definitely right when you said that you were in the minority. I would have to say that your idea of experiencing an "emotional resonance" with a literary character and your view of what clumsily handled plots are certainly don't coincide with my opinions. I loved this book. It is good by itself and even better when you read the other books in the series too.

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    WriterDan 

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    Hmm. Interesting. After your comments, I'm wondering what books you enjoy reading. I thought Ender's Game was grand.

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    Christophe J (edited)

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    I agree with you Wayne, read it a long time ago but remember being pretty disappointed. Thought it would be better seeing it had won the hugo award. From what i remember the ending is ender playing this war game where he thinks he is just playing a simulation when in reality he was leading the earth forces to victory ....and he didn't even know it 'till it was done and he was victorious. Is this what people find fascinating about this book? What did i miss? Not trying to be sarcastic just wondering what people like so much about this novel.

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    wayneghall 

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    At last! Someone else not moved by the hype. Yes, I too thought “is that it?”

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    Major Yggdrasil 

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    That makes two people who are in the bottom 100th percentile. Wayne & Chris

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    Christophe J 

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    I know why I don't like it ...do you know why you like it so much?

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    Major Yggdrasil 

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    I actually read Ender's Game when I was in 6th Grade, so that was a long time ago. I loved how Ender was such a genius (It is always enjoyable to read about smart people). Also, I love the rest of the series more than it (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, & the Shadow series). Ender's game was awesome, but I really liked the pseudo-science and views of humanity that were in the later novels. I can see how you didn't think it was exceptional, but I can't see how you can hate it; it was at least a good story.

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    wayneghall 

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    I suppose if you read the book as a teen and you are full of angst, suspicion and feeling that nobody in the whole world is like you, then you may have a different opinion about it. However, when reading as an adult who has experienced much of this world and many others through reading, Ender’s game is reduced to a mere story about some boys right of passage.

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    Major Yggdrasil 

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    OK, I guess I see what you mean Wayne, about Ender's Game, but I actually most really love the next three in the series that have nothing at all to do with kids.

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  euicho 

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  I hate to be the buzz-killer, and I certainly acknowledge that Ender's Game is very well written, but I have issues with it that I originally thought I was in the minority on as well, until I read this article: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
  
  Just expressing my opinion however, I respect all of yours just as much as my own! :)

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  Nurril 

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  I recently read this book and though I dont find sci-fi interesting at all, this is surprisingly very captivating! Is the 2nd and 3rd book as good? :)

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    Major Yggdrasil 

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    Definitely.

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    Gabriel Landowski 

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    I really enjoyed "Speaker for the Dead" too, but not so hot about the others after that....

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    udayan 

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    My pecking order for the series would be :
    1. Xenocide
    2. Ender's Game
    3. Speaker for the Dead
    4. Children of the Mind (which I frankly feel messed it up a little)
    
    The whole piggie-virus thing in Xenocide is just out-of-the-world (pun not intended).

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    Major Yggdrasil 

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    Really, mine would have to be:
    
    1. Children of the Mind
    2. Speaker of the Dead & Ender's Game tie.
    3. Xenocide
    
    This is just what I remember, I could have the order wrong since I read it so long ago but I think that I got kind of tired of Xenocide towards the end because it is so long. Not that it was bad, but it just got kind of long; I was eager for the last one. However, I like them all.

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  Leah S 

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  GREAT BOOK! It's up there in my top ten with I ROBOT and I AM LEGEND!

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    Trang The Troll 

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    I was in the Marine Corps ('86 -'96)when I ran across this book. Each rank has a reading list to accomplish (history, customs, leadership etc) and I had finished my rank and couple above me. I was looking over the lists for officers, and Enders Game was on the Colonel's list!!! A sci-fi book! I was stunned, had never heard of OSC, this was around 1989-1990.
    
    My curiousity was at a high level, and I got the book and read it. Classic book, to 5 all time. I picked up and read the reaming 3 in the series as the came out over the years and enjoyed all of them equally as well.
    Must read series for any sci-fi fan!
    
    Other books by OSC I havent really followed up on, including the shadow series. OSC is a very prolific author, and writes across many genre's, how they are I will defer to others, but again 5 out 5 laseguns for Ender series.
    
    Fairday,
    Trang
    
    

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