Ender's Game
by: Orson Scott Card
I found Ender's Game in the tiny sci-fi section of the tiny library where I grew up when I was about 15. I know this because I remember taking it one time to a driver's ed class, which means just pre-license. Anyway, I ate the book. Couldn't put it down. After I read it, I bought it, and I think I've read it probably half a dozen times now. It never gets old for me.
It's futuristic, but not too far. It's purely sci-fi, not fantasy. I love the format of the conversations at the beginning of each chapter and, having read it through once and knowing just who is talking and what ends up happening, they are interesting on a re-read. The books that follow it, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, are also very good. The other spin-off series, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, (and I haven't read the next two), I don't like so much. I would give the whole set a high PG-13 rating, for violence and some language/jokes The first series I would put at a lower PG-13, and the second at R, so the middle ground was the high PG-13.
There has been news off and on of a movie in the works. I can only wonder how they would make this book into a movie without ruining the story, but I sincerely hope they can. I would watch it.
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