book review of ender’s game
Well, let me tell ya ’bout this here book, Ender’s Game. Folks say it’s a real big deal, a fancy sci-fi story. Heard tell it’s one of the best ever written, can ya believe that? Some fella named Orson Scott Card, he wrote it.
Now, this story, it’s about these buggers, nasty lookin’ aliens, I reckon. They tried to whoop us humans, but we barely beat ’em back. So, what do we do? We start trainin’ up kids to fight ’em, that’s what. And this Ender Wiggin, he’s the main kid, real smart and all, like one of them prodigy fellers.
- They got this fancy school, Battle School they call it, where they learn all about fightin’ in space.
- Ender, he’s good at it, real good. Learns all sorts of tricks and such.
- They make ’em play these games, like them video games the young’uns play these days, but way more serious.
It ain’t all fun and games though. This Ender, he’s just a kid, but they push him hard, make him do things that ain’t right, I tell ya. They say it’s for the greater good, to save humanity and all that, but it just seems cruel to me. They’re tryin’ to make him into a weapon, a killer, and that ain’t right for no young’un.
This boy Ender, he ain’t your average kid. He’s smart, real smart. Too smart for his own good, maybe. They push him and push him, makin’ him learn all sorts of fightin’ tactics. He’s playing these games, thinkin’ it’s just practice, but it’s more than that. It’s real, I tell ya, real as rain. He’s commanding armies, makin’ decisions that decide the fate of folks he don’t even know.
And the book, it makes you think, ya know? About right and wrong, about war and killin’. Is it okay to do bad things to save good people? That’s what this book is all about, I reckon. It ain’t just about shootin’ lasers and blowin’ up spaceships. It’s about what happens to a kid when he’s forced to grow up too fast, to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Ender’s Game ain’t just some pew-pew space opera, ya hear? It’s got heart, it’s got brains. Makes ya think ’bout what’s right and what’s wrong, ’bout war and how it changes a fella, ‘specially a young fella like Ender. He’s playin’ these games, thinkin’ they’re just that, games. But they ain’t. They’re real, and the choices he makes, they matter. They got real consequences. This book, it’ll stick with ya, make ya ponder things long after you’ve put it down.
They say it’s a classic, this Ender’s Game. Won all sorts of prizes and such. Folks in the military, they like it too, I hear. Guess it teaches ’em somethin’ ’bout strategy and such. But it’s more than that, like I said. It’s about growin’ up, about makin’ choices, and about findin’ your way in a world that ain’t always fair. And that boy Ender, he goes and plays this game, like them Dungeons and Dragons games the kids play, but it’s more than just a game to him, he don’t even understand why it is the way it is, poor fella.
So, if you’re lookin’ for a good book, somethin’ that’ll make ya think, you might wanna give Ender’s Game a try. It ain’t always easy readin’, but it’s worth it, I reckon. Just don’t expect no happy-go-lucky story, ya hear? This one’s got some grit to it, some real heart, even if it breaks your heart a little along the way. It’s a powerful story, and it’ll make ya question what ya think ya know ’bout war and about folks and how they can treat each other.
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