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Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

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Enders Game Orson Scott Card “I read Enders Game because my roommate in college told me that she loved this book so much; she kept telling me she loved this book so much, blah, blah, blah. I never picked it up, so finally for Christmas one year she read the first half of this book into a tape recorder for me so that I would listen to it while I did my laundry and went jogging and stuff. [laughs] So then, once I started listening to it, then I got interested. The cover will probably tell you that it's about a little boy who's in charge of training a team of kids that are supposed to be commanders to fight an alien race. To me, the story has a lot more to do with this really intelligent person looking into a system and trying to figure out how to best use the system to his own advantage and his struggle for his self-identity. The lead character was so intelligent, and I felt like I could see through his eyes. After reading the book, I kind of felt myself thinking, or trying to think, like Ender. Any science fiction book, they have to take the science to an extreme; so there are some sort of far fetched ideas, but once — if you can just accept these far-fetched ideas, then the story becomes really interesting. I had my freshmen read this book, and at the end of their reading it — 30 kids in the class, 29 said that this was their favorite book ever. I would definitely give Enders Game five stars out of five.”