false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214413570m/375802.jpg 375802 51 In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. 2422333 book 1985 Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) total:69111|5:36630|4:19696|3:8601|2:2523|1:1660| 69111 294448 87498 5960 1 46 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 05 21:16:01 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 09:14:25 -0700 2007
God damn did I hate Ender’s Game. I checked out Amazon and can surely see why I wanted to give it a shot. Talk about a cult following of people absolutely smitten with it. I even read some where that it’s on the required reading list at Quantico. I suppose this book c...more...]]> 4 18 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Sat May 26 00:05:46 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 11:54:31 -0700 2007 The Giver the other day, and amongst a lot of Ad Hominem attacks, made the argument that children needed great books dumbed-down for them, and that The Giver is just an effective dumbing-down of 1984, Fahrenheit 451...more...]]> 5 25 false false Mon Jan 14 08:59:12 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 14:14:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 14 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 07:57:50 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 08:23:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 16 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 12:52:02 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 21:46:28 -0700 2007
"They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice."

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Ender is six years old when we meet him. He is the third son of the...more...]]> 1 11 false false Sun Jan 13 16:40:39 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 07:00:49 -0800 2008 Ender's Game?" was a question asked of me more than once by my friends, so before I headed down to the local book store to began and hopefully establish a new found infatuation with the literary Sci-fi genre, I checked out Ender's Game at the local library...more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 27 13:24:29 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 27 10:59:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 6 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Aug 13 14:51:22 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 14:51:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Mar 28 16:34:55 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 16:38:12 -0700 2008 3 4 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 17:24:44 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 11:27:32 -0700 2009
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