Ender’s Game question

It's an interesting exercise in the rhetorical arts, and Card has a skill with language that is well above average. It's worth reading for those two factors.

However, the plot is substandard, the characters trite, and the concept itself is a thinly veiled marketing strategy. (All those hours you've spent playing video games? They weren't really a waste, because maybe you can save humanity someday....) It's a mishmash of audience pandering standards: the Cinderella story with an obvious and covertly "harmless" romantic triangle, all with a struggle for humanity's survival against a deadly, but distant and faceless opponent who can be genocidally slaughtered without moral qualms.

So, overall, 2 to 3 stars is fair. I rounded it up in my rating.

This is my all time favorite book.

I read it for a book club and enjoyed it but not really enough to get into the series.

I did enjoy his world building in the training grounds and the struggle that Ender went through however. Mr. Card does that very well.

Over all this is worth reading at least by it's self.

Re-reading it for the third time and absolutely love it. However, I much prefer the Bean series to the Ender series. (I know they're all part of the same series... but I prefer the half that focuses on Bean. Ender's story becomes rather depressing and convoluted)

I read this book when I was 13, and again when I was in high school along with Ender's Shadow. Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are some of my favorite stories, although I read Speaker for the Dead in college and it became possibly my all-time favorite.

I think what drew me into the story so much was Ender. Being such a competitive person, especially when I was younger, I really identified with him -- and I still do.

its so cool especially the game room and desk and the dragon army it was a 9/10 for me it s awesome all time favorite !

Really great book that makes you think. The first three books (including Speaker for the Dead & Xenocide)are all excellent. For a slightly different perspective on Ender’s Game, Just War Theory & Literary Tools, here's a little a more detailed review: http://joesgeekfest.wordpress.com/201...

i read it on a recommendation of a mate just after i had read joe haldermans astonishingly good Future War and Enders Game just didn't compare, i found it trite and forgettable to the point i can't remember how it ends and have no interest in seeing the movie - Future War remains a damn classic and i'd recommend it to anyone, and the brain melting sequel as well, man that book has a crazy ending