3rd, 4th, 10th time around....still great. Except, I have NO IDEA how they can make a good movie out of this - I'm concerned. Although, I did read once that OSC said that if he could get someone to make Ender's Game to the same level of quality as Serenity, he would say "Yes". Here's hoping..... ( )

Classic story of the kid that grows up in Battle School and winds up saving the world. ( )

I've had mixed feelings about this book and its author for quite a long time. How could something so innately intuitive come from someone so intolerant? Jay Lake had an insight that revealed it to me, though -- "the man who wrote that book so full of human understanding and real pain had long since turned into a very sad, vile person who worked very hard to do evil to many other people," he wrote.

Ender's Game remains a timeless and thoughtful insight into the nature of childhood and the isolation of intelligence, no matter the current nature of its author. ( )

Love this book, though I think it's aimed at 15 year olds. ( )

6-year-old Ender Wiggin comes to the attention of the military, and they whisk him away to battle school. Ender is soon recognized as a prodigious war gamer who is always multiple steps ahead of his opponents. The adults push Ender and the other children to their breaking point as they prepare this generation to defend Earth against the “buggers.” Ender is a reluctant hero and a pacifist at heart, and his inner conflict mounts as the stakes increase.

This apocalyptic novel is filled with religious overtones. Ender is a Messiah figure as the world’s only hope of salvation from the enemy. His brother Peter is his opposite in nearly every way and can be seen as an antichrist.

The increasing difficulty of the battles and the creative strategies Ender devises propel the book. It lost its momentum after the last battle, and the story seemed to drift along and then suddenly stop. The ending made more sense after I listened to the author’s postscript at the end of the audio version. The author was struggling to write Speaker for the Dead and realized that he needed to expand his short story, “Ender’s Game,” into a novel to set up Speaker for the Dead. Card was really writing two novels when he adapted “Ender’s Game,” so the end of the first book is more of a pause than a resolution. ( )