Ender's Game

I am definitely the type of person that would adore this book. The relationships between the characters are relatable for my own relationships in life. I found the world building to be so creative by pulling from interesting concepts. The twist genuinely made me put the book down because I really, really was not expecting it. And, the ending was satisfying.

Alors, ce un livre sur Andrew Wiggins, aka Ender Wiggins, et c'est bon. Je pense premier, non, c'est un livre mal, mais c'est bon.

My French fucking sucks. It's a great book and it surprised me. Well worth reading.

Difícil. É uma obra prima! Único. Um retrato do fim da infância. Uma reflexão sobre brutalização e o papel da linguagem.

Mas é machista e homofóbico.

Mas não mostra o quanto incomum são seus personagens pois não se relacionam com outros personagens comuns.

Mas não mostra o que há de certo ou errado na genética dos irmãos Wiggin.

Em suma, não é perfeito. Talvez não fosse em 85 e com certeza não é agora.

Mas é singular.

I finished reading this today. I planned on dropping it about 30% of the way through. A couple days ago I was really inebriated, and Ender's Game was about all I could read in that state, so I ended up finishing it after all.
I don't enjoy reading about a character who never loses. All the grief and trauma Ender goes through seems to only be written for his accomplishments to be even more impressive. The writing is so self-indulgent and gratuitious that I almost feel bad for making fun of it. If I was a bullied little kid, this book would probably mean a lot to me.

I really wanted to like this book. I really wanted to review it with an unbiased point of view, but I'm not sure I can so I'm not going to try. I honestly don't see the genius in this book. I think the whole idea of training a 6-year old boy, regardless of his own genius, to become the commander of a world army is a little disturbing. I guess the long and the short of it is, while I was never bored I was never really entertained, either.

This book goes SO beyond the sci-fi setting and is really more of a political/conspiracy that is merely set in space.

Can not suggest this book enough.

Anyone who was ever treated as the "smart kid" and likes sci-fi would have a hard time resisting this book, I think. It kept me up late, which is not a habit for me. At times a got suspicious that the whole story would be a tribute to child militarism justified by a faceless evil enemy, but this aspect of the story remains ambiguous enough that I may indulge in the sequel also.