Search - Ender's Game (Ender, Bk 1)

I read this book when I was 15 years old. I read it again when I was 25 and again at 35. It keeps getting better each time. I will no doubt read it again when I'm 45 and I will get even more from it then. This is a true classic, one which will be read, studied, dissected, and discussed for as long as people care about literature. Though primarily sci-fi, this book transceds genres. And though the hero is merely a child, children and adults will enjoy both the story and the telling. If you haven't read this one, what are you waiting for?

While I am a huge sci-fi fan, I am often disappointed by books that have great story lines but hard-to-relate-to protaganists. This book is a joyous exception to that unfortunate trend. Ender is an incredibly empathetic character. That's not to say that the action lags - the story has good pacing and the ending is satisfyingly climatic. Definitely one of those stories you continue to think about days after you've finished. I've already ordered the remaining installments in this series.

On EVERYONE's must read list...it does not disappoint. They even do college classes on this book, researching nuances, and sutleties that abound in this account of a lowly unwanted boy that saves the universe, and doesn't even know it.

Though I didn’t think much of this book when I read it as a twelve year old, several people have recently recommended it to me, convincing me to take another look. Maybe my tastes have changed, or maybe there was just too much I didn’t get then, but the second time around, I enjoyed Ender’s Game very much. The plot revolves around Ender Wiggin, an extremely intelligent, highly gifted six year old who is accepted into Battle School, an effort by the combined forces of the world to train up military leaders to combat an impending invasion by an alien race known as the buggers.
I liked the job Card does of getting us inside Ender’s head, helping us empathize with him and understand his confusion at the way the adults around him behave and his fears of becoming like his abusive brother. Though the ending is rather unsatisfying, it is the first in a series, which I will defiantly be reading more of. However, it also feels a bit rushed.
I would recommend Ender’s Game to si-fi lovers over the age of about fourteen or fifteen, and to fans of the Hunger Games around the same age. Though there isn’t enough similarities to accuse Suzanne Collins of copying Card, they do echo each other slightly in theme and readers of one may enjoy the other.

A solid SiFi read.

Excellent book. The enemy gate is down.