Anyone read the Enders Game saga?

[Gunslinger08]

I just ordered the first 4 books off of Amazon. I've heard they're really good. Any opinions?

 

[efript]

i read enders game and xenosaga.... VERY good books....i think you or anyone else who reads them will enjoy them greatly

 

[Ornery]

I had to read Ender's Game after hearing so much about it at the author's site. Yep, it was good... very good!

 

[MazerRackham]

Yes, I liked them, a lot!

<---- name stolen from Ender's Game.

 

[kazeakuma]

Excellent series, in fact I just reading Ender's Shadow, a parallel novel. Ender's game would have to be one of my favourite sci fi series of all time.

 

[MournSanity]

I should give those books a try...

 

[Gunbuster]

The Reality Dysfunction series: Peter F. Hamilton

 

[Gunslinger08]

Riverworld also looks really cool.. I watched the movie on Sci-fi last night and it really got me thinking.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

The series is, in my opinion, so-so. But Ender's Game was phenomenal, and I highly recommend it. I'm anxious to try out Ender's Shadow.

 

[RossGr]

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are execellent, I was not a impressed with the rest of the series.


The first few books of the Riverworld series is also good but, once again, the later ones come up short.

 

[Swag1138]

I loved all four Ender books, Xenocide being my favorite.
I loved the first bean book, the second two were allright. I wonder what the fourth is gonna be about.

 

[BD2003]

Id say they continually go downhill from book one to four, but three (xenocide) and four (children of the mind) were a little more entertaining than two, even though by book four the author really started reaching. I just couldnt accept the whole jane, peter and valentine thing.

Enders shadow was pretty cool, but you wont find any surprises there except for the first couple chapters. Personally, I couldnt stand bean. He's just too calculating and cold.

 

[thomsbrain]

i finished them about 6 months ago, and they were stellar. they get better as you go, but even ender's game is a wonderful book. suggestion: to get a better understanding of these books, read "Man and his Symbols" by Carl Jung before you read the Ender Quartet.

 

[xEDIT409]

Ender series is F'ing awesome...

Enders Game is the only book I ever read more than twice.

 

[csyberblue]

I read ender's game and I loved it. I also have ender's shadow, but I haven't read it yet.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

I think it's an excellent series.

 

[BeefJurky]

Ender's Game was so so very good.

 

[Sideswipe001]

Agreed. Ender rocks.

When will be have a zero gravity battle game? That would be awesome.

 

[thirtythree]

there's some discussion about the sequels here

 

[ATLien247]

I've read the following so far:

Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon

I plan to read Shadow Puppets next, whenever I can get my hands on it...

But I'm still confused about the best order to read all of these. I was originally going to read them all in order of which they were written, but then I learned that books 3-5 are set 3000 some odd years after Ender's Game. How's that for linearity?

 

[amcdonald]

fun books.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I just read all of Ender's Game today at work. I really enjoyed the book. I'm trying to read through the entire series before I have to head back to college. Ender's Game left me with a ton of questions.

 

[neutralizer]

I read Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide.

Most of them were fine. Speaker of the Dead was so bad. Xenocide, I could not get through the first 2 pages.

 

[MithShrike]

I've read most of Orson Scott Card's fictional works and the Ender and parallel series were good. I liked the ones that actually had Ender in them but the parallel novels kind of felt like OSC was beating a dead horse. I wish he had done some more work on the Worthing universe. I can't wait for Crystal City.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

ENDER'S GAME IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOK! and after u read the series...MAKE SURE YOU READ ENDER'S SHADOW!!!! ..there's 2 books following that also....so i guess there's a total 6 books ....