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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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Apr 13, 2018 Lisa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, 50-by-50, 2018-laser-challenge

This is not an amazing 5 star read for me, but very close to it. I am not the biggest fan of space novels or movies, or stories of war and political struggles, but it is through all all of these things that this book gives some insight into our current times. This is not a book written anywhere near the year we are living in yet it feels relevant. The struggle of our life being lived on and around the internet and Ender’s training on the war games is a good example. You can not believe something ...more

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Apr 26, 2012 Keri rated it it was amazing

Shelves: reread-a-million-times, sci-fi

Love the first book. Mostly like the rest. I think it helped me deal with smart and maybe not all that awesome as a kid.

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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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