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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Stars Rank: 2 **
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”...
..."Then what do you want?"
"I want him to love me."
Ok I’m going to get right to the point with this book.
It drove me crazy.
Honestly, all I wanted to do was get through it (and not in a good way sadly). Other then the last 10 pages or so that were interesting, it just wasn’t my cup of tea. Don’t get me wrong, I love my sci-fi and aliens but it just didn’t grab me like other sci-fi novels do. One reason that I can think of is that the author doesn’t give a lot of detail.. or any at all really. Nor does he explain the story well.
I could ramble about tons of examples of different parts but ill just leave it at this tiny list.
Examples:
-I was never told what the showers looked like until the last 50 pages when they came into play.
-How the spaceships aren’t described at all, nothing, nada.
This may not seem like a big deal but when it’s a component you hear within the book frequently I’d prefer to know a broad generalization, at least, as to what it looks like.
-One that personally bugs me is that when it comes to my sci-fi books I love all the scientific “jibber jabber”. When it shows that the author put some research into how the spaceship and light speed works, the zero gravity, how a star supernovas, etc.
Even if I may already know how it works it’s nice to see the author’s own personal twist on it.
OR how the "Big" Plot twist at the end is so shocking when I found it rushed through and quite obvious...
I know some people may like less detail, allowing your own imagination to roam freely and I like it as well, just to an extent. There are some pros to this book:
-Short, easy read
-Shows the aliens perspective and how things happened for them
(maybe only for a few pages at the end but it does!)
I will say that the book wasn’t all that bad and I can see how so many people find it alright, but not the cult like love for it.
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”...
..."Then what do you want?"
"I want him to love me."
Ok I’m going to get right to the point with this book.
It drove me crazy.
Honestly, all I wanted to do was get through it (and not in a good way sadly). Other then the last 10 pages or so that were interesting, it just wasn’t my cup of tea. Don’t get me wrong, I love my sci-fi and aliens but it just didn’t grab me like other sci-fi novels do. One reason that I can think of is that the author doesn’t give a lot of detail.. or any at all really. Nor does he explain the story well.
I could ramble about tons of examples of different parts but ill just leave it at this tiny list.
Examples:
-I was never told what the showers looked like until the last 50 pages when they came into play.
-How the spaceships aren’t described at all, nothing, nada.
This may not seem like a big deal but when it’s a component you hear within the book frequently I’d prefer to know a broad generalization, at least, as to what it looks like.
-One that personally bugs me is that when it comes to my sci-fi books I love all the scientific “jibber jabber”. When it shows that the author put some research into how the spaceship and light speed works, the zero gravity, how a star supernovas, etc.
Even if I may already know how it works it’s nice to see the author’s own personal twist on it.
OR how the "Big" Plot twist at the end is so shocking when I found it rushed through and quite obvious...
I know some people may like less detail, allowing your own imagination to roam freely and I like it as well, just to an extent. There are some pros to this book:
-Short, easy read
-Shows the aliens perspective and how things happened for them
(maybe only for a few pages at the end but it does!)
I will say that the book wasn’t all that bad and I can see how so many people find it alright, but not the cult like love for it.