Ender's Game

[Raldios]

Ender Wiggin, the third in a family of child geniuses, is selected by international military forces to save the world from destruction. Before being chosen Ender wears a unique monitor that allows the heads of the military to see things as Ender does. Ender's brother Peter and his sister Valentine also wore this monitor, although neither was selected, nor did they have it for as long as Ender, and Peter will never forgive Ender for this. Peter hates Ender, and even when the monitor is taken out it does nothing to decrease Peter's anger. The same is true of Ender's schoolmates, and he is forced into brutally beating the leader of a gang of bullies in order to protect himself. Although Valentine tries to protect Ender from Peter, he is only saved from his brother when Colonel Graff of the International Fleet comes to take Ender away to Battle School. Ender leaves behind Valentine, who loves him, in order to help save the world from the buggers.

I'm liking it quite much. Best part so far. When the giant gave him two cups of poison again, (your supposed to pick the one without the poison but there is no real answer) and he kicked the cups over and killed the giant by tearing out his eye.

Post what you liked and didn't like, conversize, etc.

[Unggoy]

Loved it. Read it years ago. I should really read the sequels.....

[Kaz]

Any word on if there will ever be a movie?

[Hospital Disaster]

read it a while ago, in addition to its sequel, speaker for the dead. really should get around to finding xenocide, the next in the series

[Unggoy]

Theres also another book. Ender's Shadow. I think its Ender's Game but from Bean's perspective.

[Kaizer The Faust]

Any word on if there will ever be a movie?
Set for sometime in 2008, mah boi. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0400403/)

Theres also another book. Ender's Shadow. I think its Ender's Game but from Bean's perspective.
It is indeed from Bean's POV and it surprisingly adds a lot more depth to the same story. Basically, an untold side to it, if you will.

Just like Ender had four books from his perspective, so did Bean.

Ender Quartet: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind
Bean Quartet: Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant

Here is the link to the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game)on the book and at the very bottom you can find the rest of the books I've named, including other books related to the series.

[Templar.]

last two books in the ender series are complete mind-fucks.

[Raldios]

Just finished, that was amazing. Sequels any good?

[Scribe]

Just finished, that was amazing. Sequels any good?

Good, but different. A lot different.

I think I liked the Shadow series more than the Ender series, but both are worth a read, for sure.

[FullmetalJoe]

I read it a few years ago, and I thought it was pretty good. Never knew it had so many sequels though.

[Raldios]

Reading Speaker of the Dead for English this year. Neat so far.

[Tellarion]

last two books in the ender series are complete mind-fucks.

Agree 100%. Orson Scott Card has some amazing insights into...well everything really. I mean, when he starts talking about why men and women form relationships, you know that he knows what he's talking about. Warning for some of you though, the last three Ender books are not for the casual reader. They're pretty heavy scifi, with lots of complex topics and concepts, so if you don't like thinking about books when you read them, steer clear of these.

[Raldios]

Just finished Speaker for the Dead.

I'd say it's better than Ender's Game.

[GrungeHamster389]

I was just looking for Ender's Game the other day, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the library or the bookstore. *fumes* The closest I got was the original short story, which was in a military sci-fi collection... But I think the experience is somewhat cheapened, and a friend of mine says the novel itself is just aMAAAAzing.

argh, I can never find anything good around here... Since I read the short story, is it worth going through Amazon to get the actual novel?

[Raldios]

Hell yes, and my school library has all the books.

[Death By Pie]

Agree 100%. Orson Scott Card has some amazing insights into...well everything really. I mean, when he starts talking about why men and women form relationships, you know that he knows what he's talking about. Warning for some of you though, the last three Ender books are not for the casual reader. They're pretty heavy scifi, with lots of complex topics and concepts, so if you don't like thinking about books when you read them, steer clear of these.
Xenocide was boring as fuck though. Children of The Mind made up for it though.

[cthon98]

Here's an oldie. Picked up "Ender's Game" eons ago (or so it feels) and enjoyed it. Read it a few times more over the course of the years, and only recently came across copies of "Ender's Shadow" and "Xenocide."
I wouldn't mind grabbing the rest in the series, Orson Scott Card is an incredible writer.

[Hiraku]

This book, it was hard to digest for me on my first read because there're lots of things I didn't get until I read it for the second time.

I'm thinking of reading Children of the Mind later, has anyone read it yet?

[Orion_Prime]

Speaker For the Dead is my personal favorite of the original four books. In fact, the book version of Ender's Game actually came out as a prequel to Speaker, if I recall correctly.

If you only read one of the books from the Ender's series, go with Speaker.

[Raldios]

Ender's Game was released in 1985. Speaker for the Dead was released in 1986.

I wiki'd it.