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A review by readingadventures
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
5.0
There are probably mild spoilers in this review:
All right, so there's a reason I didn't do a review about this book the moment I finished it and It's because the only thing on my mind at the time was, this book is so sad!
However, now that I had a little time to think about why I loved this book so much, I can say that it's not just because of the way it managed to made me feel sad.
The honest truth is that I watched the movie before I read the book because I never thought I would end up reading it and although the movie had certainly the same feel the book gave, there was no way they could accurately portrait Ender's change from when he was first taken to the the person he became in so little time. What they did to Ender in order to beat the buggers was just so heartbreaking, he was just a child and they used him and he didn't want to be used in everything but he eventually gave up, and went along with their games and that says so much about the way people lose their will to fight which is something I haven't seen much of in books.
That brings me to to the reason I enjoyed this book so much and that wasn't the settings or the battles or the strategy it was how the author manage to portrait human emotion in such a complex way(see not only sadness), although if I'm being completely honest I was never completely confortable with the ages of the kids in this story, it just felt a little imposible for them to be 6 years old and think the way they did. From the way Ender's mind worked and how he began his journey, knowing that he was just a tool from the beginning but still being so hopeful to this completely broken Ender who didn't know how to live his life anymore but knowing that dying was not an option, it truly blew my mind.
Overall, this book was not perfect and watching the movie first didn't really help but the way human emotion was portrait really won me over. It was not sobbing kind of sad for me but it was definitely staying up longer that usual thinking about how sad this book was.
I recommend Ender's game to people who love sic-fi with no romance, people who enjoyed Ready Player One and people who love intricate complicated characters.
All right, so there's a reason I didn't do a review about this book the moment I finished it and It's because the only thing on my mind at the time was, this book is so sad!
However, now that I had a little time to think about why I loved this book so much, I can say that it's not just because of the way it managed to made me feel sad.
The honest truth is that I watched the movie before I read the book because I never thought I would end up reading it and although the movie had certainly the same feel the book gave, there was no way they could accurately portrait Ender's change from when he was first taken to the the person he became in so little time. What they did to Ender in order to beat the buggers was just so heartbreaking, he was just a child and they used him and he didn't want to be used in everything but he eventually gave up, and went along with their games and that says so much about the way people lose their will to fight which is something I haven't seen much of in books.
That brings me to to the reason I enjoyed this book so much and that wasn't the settings or the battles or the strategy it was how the author manage to portrait human emotion in such a complex way(see not only sadness), although if I'm being completely honest I was never completely confortable with the ages of the kids in this story, it just felt a little imposible for them to be 6 years old and think the way they did. From the way Ender's mind worked and how he began his journey, knowing that he was just a tool from the beginning but still being so hopeful to this completely broken Ender who didn't know how to live his life anymore but knowing that dying was not an option, it truly blew my mind.
Overall, this book was not perfect and watching the movie first didn't really help but the way human emotion was portrait really won me over. It was not sobbing kind of sad for me but it was definitely staying up longer that usual thinking about how sad this book was.
I recommend Ender's game to people who love sic-fi with no romance, people who enjoyed Ready Player One and people who love intricate complicated characters.