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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

Orson Scott Card

Start date: November 6, 2007

Finish date: December 8, 2007

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Dec 24, 2012 Marianne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya-literature, science-fiction

This was a favorite book of mine from my YA years. I was hesitant to return to it as an adult after a number of old favorites did not hold up to an adult reading (Narnia). But I slid back into this book easily, still loving Ender's adult-like, internal conflicts, and seeing him overcome the cruelties that only children can inflict upon each other. And where I once was angry along with Ender at the games adults play, how unfair they are, now I cringe at their obvious abuse and manipulation. I'm g ...more

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Oct 14, 2013 Amy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Just as good the second time around.

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Feb 24, 2012 Marc rated it really liked it

"Ender's Game" wasn't the first sci-fi book I've read and surely won't be the last.
At first, I thought that its narrative was pretty slow and rather unspectacular, at least from todays perspective.
It might be that the incredible reputation that precedes the sci-fi classic boosted my expectations in a way that I finally ended up finding the book rather mediocre. I don't mean that in a negative manner though, but rather in a neutral way.
I really would have given it a mediocre three stars, but the ...more

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