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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Every time I pick up one of these Ender books, I just can't put it down. And even though this one follows the same core events as Ender's Game, so I know what will happen, I still look forward to page after page. Reading Ender's Shadow is like reading a favorite book again, except that there truly are new aspects that you couldn't have seen the first time through. (  )CUViper | Jun 24, 2009 |   Although I only read "Ender's Game" in the series, this book is a good compliment to it. It's not necessary that you read the other books in the series, but I liked both so much I probably will. It's a good, light summer read. The struggles that the children must face in this novel, much like in "Ender's Game" are challenging and far beyond the years of these youthful genuises. Since I already read "Ender's Game", the psychological questions that arose in that book, were again raised in this one, did not surprise me. However, these questions the novel makes one ask oneself are still pertinent to be asked again. kategreer | Jun 6, 2009 | Aptly named, Card’s follow up to Ender’s Game obviously lives in the shadow of the award-winning predecessor. However, this is only because the first in this series is the original mythology created. This follow up novel is no less artistically crafted in the hands of a master writer. In fact, the larger social elements appearing as constant threads throughout the text, such as Bean’s origins as a genetically enhanced clone grown in a lab. Subplots like these that weave themselves throughout the writing bring a realistic connection to current social issues. Specifically, issues revolving around the scientific advances in cellular biology, the role the government plays with progress, and the outcome of manipulating human life from inception comes together well within Bean’s story. Overall, I would venture to say that even though the original will almost always be more compelling than a sequel, Ender’s Shadow may actually be a better book given the layers of complexity within the text. -Lindsey Miller, www.lindseyslibrary.com (  )LindseysLibrary | May 14, 2009 | Very good book. This runs parallel to Ender's Game. I actually read this one first, then read Ender's Game. It gave me a great perspective going into EG. This book shows just how far one little boy will go to never have to go back to life on the streets. (  )apsing01 | May 4, 2009 | After reading several of the novels focused on Ender a wonderful thing happened. Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Shadow. If it's possible, I liked Bean even more than Ender. It showed how it wasn't just Ender being self centered that made it seem like he was the entire focus of the Battle School, and yet there were so many other little dramas happening all around him that he could never have possibly known about. ( )TonyaSB | Mar 18, 2009 | 0.089 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0812575717, Mass Market Paperback)Ender's Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game. By "parallel," Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of Shadow, and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know. Although it may seem like Shadow is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous Ender's Game, that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of Ender's Game hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, Shadow manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that Shadow, like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. --Craig E. Engler (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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