I’m enjoying them… but they’re not the pure adolecent fun of Enders Game… but still very good…
I also liked all three of the Old Man’s war books…
— D
I’ve continued to read the series… I’ve finished all the “shadow” series with Bean, and have started “Xenocide”… And as I finish each book my 12-year-old son is picking them up and quite enjoying them…
— Dismal the readin’ bastard
I read “Ender’s Game” when it first appeared in Analog Magazine way back in the before time. Card won the Hugo award for it that year, and it was his first published story! A great start for a writing career, eh? Just a sample of the useless trivia I drag around with me, always. 
That’s where I first read Ender’s Game. For a long time, I didn’t read the book because I read the novella, I didn’t think I needed to read the full novel. But I finished reading the novel two weeks ago and I have to say it was different enought from the original Analog story that it was a great new read for me.
I’m glad we have this book club, I would have never gone back to this story without this board.
There’s now going to be a series of games based on the novels:
Hey guys, sorry I’m so late, but I got the book for Christmas (after hearing it was on the listed reading), and I just finished it the other night. I really enjoyed it, even though I was pretty sure what was going on near the end of the book, it was still a lot of fun! I received the set of books for Xmas…Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, which I just started last night, and The Hedgemon or something like that. It was a special 3-pack of books from Amazon.com. I too had never heard of Ender until the GWC podcast, although I’d heard about OSC from his wonderful rantings about how great Firefly is on the Done The Impossible DVD! If you haven’t watched him, check out that DVD. He’s actually quite personable,which made me want to read the books!
I just got finished reading this book. I was never a big reader as a kid and now I am really regretting that. This book is amazing and it is interesting how much of the book is true today, over twenty years later. It was hard for me to keep remembering how young these kids are suppose to be. Thanks GWC for recommending a great series of books.
I’m on the third book also. I actually am liking it better than the second one for some reason! The piggies are growing on me to some degree though!
I recently finished Children of the Mind, and am waiting for my book credits on my membership at Audible to come 'round again for Ender’s Shadow!
Excellently performed! I love the bonus at the end of each with Orson Scott Card- he really goes in depth about the inspirations and backgrounds.
I can’t wait to get to Bean’s story! 
I bought this book years ago when I was a member of the ScFi book of the month club. This would give me a reason to finally read the darn thing.
I would definitely recommend this book - and the whole series along with it, including the Ender’s Shadow Saga.
Need to dig out and re-read the Worthing Saga sometime - many years since I read it.
Oddly enough re-reading Ender’s Game more recently I was in some vague way disappointed. I definitely think there are parts of Orson Scott Card’s writing which have tightened up over the years, but on the other hand I know I’m predisposed to series’’’’ of book rather than onesers due to the amount of travel time I get.
Ender’s Game is one of a number of stories which has appeared in various forms and thus its quite a nice one to use to explore the extension from a short story to 200 page novel, if you are into that sort of thing (I’m not so much, but I have other family members who are, and I do understand that it could be of interest).
Anyway… that’s all, otherwise people will get worried about me escaping from the gutter.
I read Ender’s Game (and the 3 books after it, plus the Bean arc) last summer as part of my post MA comprehensive exams celebration. I loved Ender’s Game itself, and wasn’t a fan of Speaker, Xenocide, etc. I did, however, like the Bean arc a lot. Though, I liked the first of those better than the rest, those young kids having kids kinda freaked me out.
The first Ender book followed by the Beans Shadow series are some of my favorite books ever. I dug them so much that i named my cats after them.
Ender lives up to his name as a fear less attack anything dude…even a pitbull once
Bean however is an abject coward…
I read Ender’s Game so long ago when the three book collection was different than now. I reread it with my class of Juniors and Seniors. They were really surprised to find out it was written before anyone played games on the internet.
I think its cool that a book that this book is now among the reading in some military theory classes. It’s also the book that got my step-dad to realize that Sci Fi isnt all just silly none sense. its defiantly up there on one of my most read books
The movie was almost made many times. The reason it wasn’t is that the author wanted to keep Ender so young. He refused to let Ender become 16 at the start of the book. I think if he turned down so many chances to do the movie due to the characters age he will be careful to be true to his book.
OSC said after watching Serenity that he won’t let his book be made into a movie unless it can be as good as Serenity. I know he is working on a script. I don’t think it could be made into a movie easily and not have an ‘R’ rating. With as much child on child violence that is necessary to make the characters right. I almost think it would have to be animated but that wouldn’t feel right i think…unless it was Don Bluth style sore of like Titan A.E.
Woo, Ender’s Game. A great book. Have any of you read the version with the auther’s preface? It gives a lot of insight into some of the themes of the book.
I actually read this once in fourth grade and most of it went over my head. I’ve re read it recently and I finally realized how deep it was… It has some great and really unique ideas.
I’ve never read any of his other books. From what I read, though, I should really read them.
And I think an animated Ender’s Game movie would suck no matter the style, although the Titan AE stlye would be perferred. I think it would need to be live action to be visceral enough to convey the messages properly. But I think maybe it would work with good enough actors and a very, very large budget.
Hey Mage…
If you really dug the book you should check out Enders Shadow. Its more or less the same story but told from the character Beans Pov. The rest of the shadow series follows Bean and i think is much better than the Ender series. The Ender series is more philosophical and stuff while Bean is much more actiony which is more my pint of beer
I agree that I liked the Bean series better than the Ender series… but part of my issue with the Ender series was the whole, hey let’s transport a bunch of Brazilian Catholics into the book! I could never get past the random Portuguese usage. Plus I was also irritated by the culture usage, I’m not sure I’m articulating this correctly but the asian society with the people who follow the lines rubbed me the wrong way too.
Edited to add: OSC did his missioning in Brazil, so at least he spoke some of the language.