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k_rachel's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
taitmckenzie's review against another edition
4.0
I first read the Ender's series as a kid, perhaps some of the most influential sci-fi books I read at the time, perhaps because it is about super intelligent children who themselves become alien/ other in their attempts at understanding what it means to be human. After taking a class on science fiction I thought it would be worthwhile to go back and reread them (ah, light summer reading, I read Ender's Game in its entirety last night!), particularly because these books present the concept of the Hierarchy of Otherness - other as self, other as enemy, other as wholly other, which I found useful over the semester as examples or characterizations of the human response to amounts of novelty applied to intergalactic situations.
julieisathome's review against another edition
4.0
Ender's Game is a classic and I was not expecting the plot twist. Read this via audio book first while I was training for a half marathon and the storytelling kept me engaged mile after mile.
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