What do you think of Ender's Game? by Orson Scott Card.?

Question

I really loved this book what do you think and did you like the others in the seiries?

Answer 1

I read this book and immediately fell in love with his writing. I also liked it's parallel Ender's Shadow, I recommend it if you haven't read it yet. Did you know that Orson Scott Card is a Mormon?

Answer 2

I loved it. It was my first Orson Scott Card book and it made me hooked. I couldn't get enough of Card after that. I've read it probably six or seven times in that amount of years. And the sequels are good, just not as perfectly good as Ender's Game. While I had a hard time loving Speaker for the Dead...I really enjoyed Xenocide and Children of the Mind. And I enjoyed the Shadow series as well. But neither the Shadow series or the trilogy of Ender books (Speaker for the dead, etc.) ever capture the exact feel of the first. Speaker for the dead (and sequels) get more philosophical, religious, and more about the relationship/responsibility for upholding and respecting life in all forms...being more understanding and compassionate. And the Shadow series after Ender's Shadow gets very political. And revenge, politics, selfishness, hatred etc. are the themes of those novels.

Answer 3

I absolutely loved Ender's Game; it's one of the best sci-fi novels ever, in my opinion. I agree that the rest of the original series (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind) faltered a little as far as action, but I think it was realistic; an extremely intelligent, highly sensitive person who's exterminated an entire species is going to spend the rest of their life dealing with that. The Shadow series, following Bean and the rest of the Battle School children on Earth, has much more action and is very good all the way through. Ender's Game is still the best, though. It really resonated with me because I was a so-called gifted child in a small, poor, rural school district, and the incredible loneliness of Ender's position echoed in my childhood. I learned early on to keep my mouth shut and hide my grades from other kids, but even the teachers would look at me askance, and some were actively hostile.

If you haven't yet read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, I highly recommend it!

Answer 4

I really enjoyed Ender's Game. Speaker for the Dead is just okay, though. I don't know about Xenocide and Children of the Minds. If you haven't read them, read the whole Bean series (Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant). The Bean series and Ender's Game are some of my favorite books.

Answer 5

Hated it, and I rarely hate sci-fi books.

The set up was supposed to be taking a child and training him to be a military commander in the future. The outcome was this Pseudo religious doctrine about trees and pequinos and a whole bunch of really silly symbolism.