foosreadsandwrites's reviews
280 reviews

Couldn't say it better than I saw Jeremiah Herbert had put it:

"Good sci fi with a purpose." Except I might capitalize the 'P' - it did get a little preachy at times. :)

This book is a 4.4 out of five. The first half is incredible; it's impossible to stop reading. The second half I found myself waiting for the end to jump out and tell me what new and exciting thing was going to happen. The writing is beautiful and insightful; fun and serious. I still can't decide if it was about bullying, war, children's intelligence, mistreatment of children or people in war, or humanity. No matter which of those topics you choose, however, it was an excellent piece addressing that issue perfectly. Oh crap and whatever, I guess it's a 4.5. Like Ender, the ending may be unsatisfactory and a little slow, but the purpose was served so well I don't even care. The ending came full circle, and that's the most I can ask of it.

The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that Ender's Game is about the pull between what is necessary in survival versus what is necessary in love and humanity (and, therefore, what is necessary in life). For Ender, the the only necessity life offered was a home. The book answers, "Home is where the heart is."

This was assigned for school - man, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Really fun and interesting depictions of cultural differences that cause us (and other cultures) to misread different portions of Scripture. I recommend it...which I don't usually do!

it was great! until the end where you wanted to know what actually happened and the story just stopped. waste!

It was fine! No need for the entirety of part one, which is like 20% of the book.

Really worth the read. A couple of sexual scenes made me uncomfortable and a couple of psychological ideas felt forced or far out of reality, but overall it was a really fascinating and gripping narrative of a journey and got thinking about new things. I liked it!!

I think I kind of sort of hated it until the last 30 pages, when I decided that I loved it. Weirdest feeling I think I've ever had after finishing a book. "don't you know who the Fat Lady really is?...Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy."

SO FUNNY.

Great, short length.

Three stars because it was great, made fun of superficiality, but wasn't as meaningful as other stuff (and was probably not meant to be).