I really liked this story. the characters were developed very well, and the story overall was very good. I saw the main plot twist coming, but then there was an added bonus twist towards the end that i didn't see coming. there were a lot of similarities with newer sci-fi stories, and i think those writers got their ideas from Card. a couple times i thought to myself "oh man that is just like movie x, or book x!" but then i remembered this was written way before those, and got mad at them for stealing his ideas, even though a lot of them were universal sci-fi themes. This book was written a while ago, so i'm mad that i hadn't read it sooner. this is definitely going on my re-read list :-)
I'm wondering if the other books in this series as good as this opener? and is it a complete story arc about Ender or what? I will have to research this and/or find other good sci-fi books to read. with my possible upcoming boycott of Dean Koontz, and waiting for George Martin to finish the fifth book in his Ice and Fire series, i won't have anything to read except my standard re-reads (yes i do that)
Ender's Game: 8.5/10 - excellent story, good twist, excellent ending. on my re-read list.
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I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I'm going to have to re-read it soon.
There are two others that are in the actual Ender arc (Speaker for the Dead and Xenophobia -- I'm writing them from memory, so they might be slightly off). They were not as good as Ender's Game, but I thought they were worth a read just to see where the story went.
Years later, he came out with the same story but from a different point of view in the book Ender's Shadow. I confess that I haven't read that or the others in that arc because I really want to re-read Ender's Game first. Londo read it and he said it's really good and I should read it already. And he didn't really like the other two in the Ender arc.
I often see movies or read books and think "Hey, I know where they got that idea!!" It's amazing to me how long ago he wrote this book. Yeah, I'm definitely pulling it off the shelf for a re-read. :-)
Have you read Eon by Greg Bear? It comes highly recommended by my brother and Londo. It's on my list to read this year.
oooh thanks for the new book list :-)
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