Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

May 15, 2012 Barbara ★ rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2012, young-adult-children, challenge-books, aliens-space, fantasy-science-fiction, x-set-in-usa-north-carolina, author-title-char-o, dystopia

I just finished Ender's Game and though I liked it, I thought the writing was kind of stilted. The paragraphs just didn't flow from one to the other. It seems hodge-podge to me as if someone edited out whole paragraphs so those left behind didn't quite fit together.

I did like Ender and really felt bad for him in all situations. His brother hated him so he wasn't comfortable at home. His fellow students picked on him so he wasn't comfortable at school. So it was no surprise to me that when given ...more

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Jun 16, 2008 Catsalive rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2023, 2005, 2017

9/5/23: I enjoyed it just as much this time. This is a great kids' adventure. I never have got around to reading any of the subsequent books but I find this one just perfect. If Ender seems a bit advanced for a 6-year-old, well, this is a story, a science fiction story, & a bloody good one at that.

2005: Brilliant. I don't normally like SF but this one didn't get bogged down in technology & drag on and on about the alien species. It is written from a child's perspective & I enjoyed it so much tha ...more

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Sep 07, 2011 Chris rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: united-states, young-adult, youth, fiction, middle-grades, scifi-fantasy-paranormal

This is another one of those classics that leaves me scratching my head and saying, "What did I miss?" The story of Ender Wiggin is a good one, but it didn't thrill me; it didn't keep me up at night turning pages; it just didn't captivate me. It left me with a lot of unanswered questions. Without giving anything away, clearly the Wiggin children were bred for something special, but how and why? I really wanted to know more about the last alien invasion. What Card does brilliantly is convey a sma ...more

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Sep 21, 2008 Marla rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, adventure, middle-school, science-fiction, zz-2009, boys, series, made-me-cry, young-adult, audiobook

One of my favorite sci-fi books. I originally read this book as a teenager and loved it. I read Ender's Shadow and then reread Ender's Game in 5/03 and it was just as good as I remembered it. Listened to it in 10/09 because I was going to listen to the sequels. I got as far as Speaker for the Dead, but someday I will read Xenocide.

I didn't like the sequels in this series, because they get too political, but I liked the Ender's Shadow series.

Warning: Scenes with graphic violence. ...more

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