Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

[Ashley]

We will discuss Ender's Game in this thread. Please remember to mark your spoilers. :)

[Ana]

definetely in but closer to the end of the month after i finish my exams and buy the book

[Ana]

definetely in but closer to the end of the month after i finish my exams and buy the book

[Jack]

I'm in too. I got it as a Christmas present and looking forward to reading it, though I'm not sure it's the type of book that I'd usually read. But you never know, I'll probably love it!

[Jack]

I'm starting it next week. More excited now as my friends say its brilliant!

[Nathan]

I've got to chapter 9, Nikki.

I'm so glad it's living up to my huge expectations from my last read of it! Man, I've forgotten how good this book is. ;)

[Nathan]

Nikki wrote: "I'm also trying to imagine how they've made a film out of this story and don't have high hopes for it."

YES! Me too. I'm reading about the battles and I'm so confused about how they're going to do this in the movie. I'm so scared they'll ruin it!

Nikki, have you read Earth Unaware? It's supposed to be the story of the first war. I've been meaning to read it for a while but haven't gotten around to it.

[Ashley]

I had no idea this was going to be a movie! I read it for the first time this month...shocker, I know. Science Fiction is really not my forte, but I really liked this book a lot!

Don't really know how they will do a movie for this book, but will be interesting to see!

[cstmpkg]

Trevor: Earth Unaware was an excellent book. It hearkened back to the original Enders Game short story, at least i felt it did writing style wise. novels have the luxury of expansiveness, short stories tend to need to be quick and to the point. Have you read any of the spin offs from Enders Game?

[Nathan]

Ashley: I'm so glad you liked it! I find that most people enjoy Ender's Game even if they aren't into Science Fiction.

Nikki: The whole series is very philosophical. I read them all last year and I actually rather disliked the final book, Children of the Mind. I was glad to have read it though. I loved the Shadow series consistently. I can't wait for the next one! The prequels were also quite good. I think I've almost read all of the Enderverse books and I'm working on reading all the short stories as well. It's a tough job, there are so many! I love OSC's writing though, and it's very enjoyable when the shorts are about different characters in the Enderverse. As for the movie, I am skeptical as well. Ugh, I REALLY hope it's good!

Donna: That's awesome! I'm glad to hear it, as I have Earth Unaware on my reading list for later this year. So far I've read all the Ender books, all the Shadow books, as well as quite a few short stories. For example, I read Mazer in Prison and First Meetings in Ender's Universe. I have printed off Cheater to read as well, I believe it focuses on Hot Soup's story. I am quite the Ender's Game fan, are there any great stories I'm missing? I'm trying to read them all!!

[cstmpkg]

Trevor you may want to look into wyrms by osc not in the enders game universe but excellent if you want to see how he progressed as a writer. I'm gonna have to check my computer and see what short stories I have of his. read most of them I know. also, enchantment read it. wow :-)

[Nathan]

I loved The Homecoming Saga! I remember struggling through the last couple books, but I did like them in the end.

I will definitely look into Enchanted and Wyrms, I believe I own those actually...

[cstmpkg]

Nikki, first and foremost, (to answer 2) the internet. the message boards of demosthenes and locke that shape the world (been following SOPA CISPA bills online lately?) granted ARPA net was like the great grand daddy of it from around that time, but really a communication board that anyone anywhere could access (including children) and as long as you were able to hold your own influence the thoughts of the world... lets just say facebook isn't doing us any favors.

personally don't feel that response was too spoilery, since it starts happening pretty close to the beginning of the book.

Oddly enough i would say overall OSC in this book had a practical view of the world, based on overpopulation stats that were coming out of China at the time. When they talk about gravity in space, space flight and relative space flight, he's pretty spot on with what we think now, although advances in physics strongly suggest now that we have no clue really how light works and therefore travel at that speed would be weirder than we originally theorized. I am personally looking forward to ansible type tech ^_^

to answer 1. closest we as a race have come to global cooperation? WW1 (ish) WW2 although not every nation participated (even if battles happened in their countries)and arguable that america wouldn't have shown up to the WW2 party if not for pearl harbor

[cstmpkg]

also, had no idea about the Homecoming Saga, i will absolutely check it out. is it as slow as Pastwatch redemption of christopher columbus?

[Kaitlin]

Just got this from the library - looking forward to reading it this week!

[Ana]

i have just bought it so i'll start reading it and post my thoughts here

[Lianne]

This is my second five-star book this year. My first real acquaintance with the genre science-fiction has been quite overwhelming. The story is so well-thought-out I couldn't put the book down. If I hadn't read many other books at the same time I would have finished reading days ago. I especially liked the psychological aspect of the story. The teachers have dilemmas how far they can push Ender and Ender has dilemmas how to deal with the challenges he's facing. The appearance of Ender's brother Peter as the antagonist was a brilliant move of the author. There's so much dept to the story that I'm really quite overwhelmed by it.

While I was reading the book, I thought they should make a movie out of this one. I just found out there's actually going to be a movie this year and I'm pleasantly surprised. Reading the comments in this topic I'm becoming slightly worried they will do the story harm though. We'll have to wait and see I guess!

[Alison]

I will be starting this book today! Hopefully it doesn't take me too long.

[Alison]

Lianne- Im loving this book!!! I cant put it down!

[Lilac]

What are order do you plan to read the rest of the series in Craig?
I think I'm going to read them in publication order because that seems the simplest.

[Lianne]

Alison wrote: "Lianne- Im loving this book!!! I cant put it down!"

Yeah, it's a great read. I couldn't put it down either. Hope you like the rest of the book as well, but I'm quite sure you will :)

Craig and Lilac, if you don't mind me joining in, I would like to discuss the rest of the series as well.

[Lilac]

That's a great idea Craig, and of course you're welcome to discuss too, Lianne.

[Kara]

Maybe it makes sense for us to create an "Enderverse" thread in buddy reads, and you all can set your own pace and read and comment together. I'll create it--will one of you be responsible for setting the pace of the reading (i.e., letting the others know which book you're starting when and keeping the discussion going)?

[[deleted user]]

I'd like to join the "Enderverse" as well for at least book 2, so I'll keep an eye out for the thread. I loved Ender's Game and am curious on how the series will develop. Also looking forward to seeing the upcoming film!

[Lilac]

Me too, but I'm scared they'll completely mess it up :(

[Lilac]

I've just looked at the cast and they're all so much older than they should be.

[Alison]

I just finished Ender's Game. I loved it!! I am still trying to figure out how the ending came back into play. What do you thing the significance of the ending was when he went back to the "arcade game" in real life.

[Lilac]

So when abouts are we going to start reading the rest of the series?

[Lilac]

I don't really mind when we start, as long as we read at a steady pace. I couldn't manage 3+ of these books a month, since I have other books I need to read, but I'm fine with 1 or 2 books a month.

[[deleted user]]

1 book a month works for me. I'm open to start in May or June.

[Alison]

I want to read the other books too but I can't get a hold of them right now. So I will just wait to read them later.