Valentine celebrated Ender's eighth birthday alone, in the wooded back yard of their new home in Greensboro. She scraped a patch of ground bare of pine needles and leaves, and there scratched his name in the dirt with a twig. Then she made a small teepee of twigs and needles and lit a small fire. It made smoke that interwove with the branches and needles of pine overhead. All the way into space, she said silently. All the way to the Battle School.
I'm sure you've heard before that this is the science fiction book for those who don't like science fiction. I can now tell you that is a 100% accurate recommendation for this book. Not only is this story filled with puzzles, tests, and imagination, it is fresh and new, due to the fact that the book is written from the point of view of an eight-year-old. In this book you are sure to find all sorts of exciting, 'grown up' situations, as well as human child emotions, which were so ripe in our younger years, that sometimes we forget about them. This book reminds you of your childhood, while showing the forced process of growing up too quickly to face brutal reality at the same time. Ender is forced to overcome all the challenges his adult 'mentors' put before him, testing his character, morals, and emotional endurance. In the end... Well I'm not going to say, but all in all, this was a fabulous book!
I'm sure you've heard before that this is the science fiction book for those who don't like science fiction. I can now tell you that is a 100% accurate recommendation for this book. Not only is this story filled with puzzles, tests, and imagination, it is fresh and new, due to the fact that the book is written from the point of view of an eight-year-old. In this book you are sure to find all sorts of exciting, 'grown up' situations, as well as human child emotions, which were so ripe in our younger years, that sometimes we forget about them. This book reminds you of your childhood, while showing the forced process of growing up too quickly to face brutal reality at the same time. Ender is forced to overcome all the challenges his adult 'mentors' put before him, testing his character, morals, and emotional endurance. In the end... Well I'm not going to say, but all in all, this was a fabulous book!
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