Ender's Game Novel

[Mel]

Back on the old AOL boards, sometimes we discussed books for summer reading. TK highly recommended Ender's Game (and Speaker for the Dead, and Ender's Shadow, which he said is mostly about Bean).

At long last, I have read Ender's Game. I truly enjoyed it. Even though I'd just seen the movie, I raced through the book, just like Hunger Games, anxious to know what would happen next. At the start of each chapter, I liked reading the comments by Graff and others. The idea of a "third" child being allowed if the first two showed promise was interesting.

I had a problem with a young children being recruited for war, but if humanity is at stake, I suppose the decision makes sense. 

[TrekBeatTK]

Jun 2, 2014 23:44:16 GMT -5 Mel said:

Back on the old AOL boards, sometimes we discussed books for summer reading. TK highly recommended Ender's Game (and Speaker for the Dead, and Ender's Shadow, which he said is mostly about Bean).

At long last, I have read Ender's Game. I truly enjoyed it. Even though I'd just seen the movie, I raced through the book, just like Hunger Games, anxious to know what would happen next. At the start of each chapter, I liked reading the comments by Graff and others. The idea of a "third" child being allowed if the first two showed promise was interesting.

I had a problem with a young children being recruited for war, but if humanity is at stake, I suppose the decision makes sense. 

Glad you liked it. I read it just as voraciously. Ender's Shadow is a parallel novel that tells the same events from Bean's perspective.

There are then a series of sequels about Bean and some of the others separate from the Ender sequels (since he's a long way off in space at the end of the book).

-TK