false 9532 26 Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving children who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists - he is way too small for that - but with brains. Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness. What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climatic battle against hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggin - perhaps his only true rival. Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now. 3145587 book 201 Ender's Shadow (Shadow Series, Book 1) total:14588|5:5978|4:5444|3:2570|2:502|1:94| 14588 60474 17392 883 4 4 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 08:29:40 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 02 01:20:31 -0800 2009
Ender's Shadow follows those exact lines. We switch from Ender's perspective to Bean's, the brilliant dwarf child who serves under h...more...]]> 2 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 20:22:50 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 17:04:53 -0700 2007 Ender's Game. The best parts of Ender's Game were the action parts, and also the parts where Ender would be faced with a problem and he had to come up with a clever way to fix it. But in Ender's Shadow, Bean is the main character and he tends to be much less s...more...]]> 1 3 false false Thu Aug 30 22:53:51 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 04 02:18:25 -0800 2007
Card does great work teaching people how to re-imagine stories from different viewpoints and with different motivations in h...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 14:38:10 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 10:33:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 13:28:27 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 21:17:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Thu Jul 17 05:30:41 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 06:58:11 -0700 2008 Ender's Game, dealing with virtually the same events as the original book but told from another character's perspective, I thought it was a cheap way to cash in on the success of his first bestseller. Like many people, though, I had...more...]]> 2 2 false true Tue Jun 03 09:51:52 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 11:57:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Apr 15 07:52:59 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 08:02:14 -0700 2008
First, the original story is better. This re-telling isn't near as fun. It takes...more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 18:47:56 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 06:15:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 14:47:37 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 15:26:51 -0800 2008
I just cried while listening to an audio book. Even more amazing is that this book was the re-telling of a story I've already read, only told from a different perspective. Orson Scott Card is amazing. I'm now looking forward to the other books in the shadow series.

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Ender's Shadow is, I wo...more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Fri Oct 19 15:21:26 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 14 22:14:50 -0800 2007 Ender's Game for me. The premise of the book is that Ender wasn't really the hero of his own book, but that his course was manipulated and prodded onward by an even greater genius, in the form of Bean, a member of Ender's army.

Bean had a brutal upbri...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 19:01:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 11:54:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 10:36:24 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 24 08:01:46 -0800 2007
For Bean, sur...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 17:00:09 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 20:19:35 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Feb 09 23:22:13 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 23:28:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Fri Apr 20 00:27:02 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 20 00:27:30 -0700 2007 Ender's Game, but told from the perspective of a different character in the story. In Ender's Game, one of the students training with Ender is Bean. This is the story of how Bean came to train at the military academy and the problems he faced there.

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NOTE: Again, there is a movie coming out next year that supposedly will try to tell the story in this book ALONG WITH the story in "Ender's Game...more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Jan 28 22:44:49 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 22:55:02 -0800 2008 There's this really, really smart kid, see, and he's lonely, and he has to do really hard stuff, and adults are mean.

OK. I can get with that.

Ender's Shadow:
Oh, but I forgot to mention, there's this OTHER kid, who's even smarter, like really, really, R...more...]]> 4 0 false true Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 15:30:54 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 15:43:49 -0800 2009 more...]]>