[Marvin]

Is this book any good?

[fluffy bunny]

There's plenty of topics on this book already (at the top of the page, click search if you can't find them).

Can't really say whether this is your type of book since you haven't stated what type of fiction and the aspects of the sf genre you like reading about.

But I'd still say give the book a try. Above all, the characterisation in the novel's first rate and drags you kicking and screaming, wondering what's going to happen to the protagonists.

[lemming]

Yes. :cool:

[Evil Agent]

Yeah, it's sweet. The sequels are TOTALLY different though. Still cool, but different. Haven't read the NEWER sequels, the Shadow series.

[Mugwump]

An excellent piece of work on several levels, Ender's Game might well be the most disturbing commercially successful SF novel ever written.

[Shehzad]

Is Ender's Game good? Is honey sweet? Do flies fly? Do ducks quack?

[LUKEDAWG]

Enders Game is definetly worth the read. The characterization is excellent, there is constant action without a single lull throughout, and the twist at the end is fantastic.

Now being the pessemist I am I do have to fault a few things. Orson has a Mormon upbringing so his style is extremely clean, about the most profane thing you will read is "bastard" which makes the dialogue at times seem unrealistic. Also the battle descriptions lack clarity despite the detail...it just is very confusing to understand what their exact formations look like.

But anyways I think it's one of the best sci-fi books out there, right up there with Snow Crash, Tiers of the World series, and Hyperion.

[Grasshopper]

Heh.
After this thread started, I thought about reading it. I have it on ebook but don't do that much. I love turning pages. I'm a pharmacist and at the store I work at parttime, there is a book shelf just outside the pharmacy. Ender's Game is there and one day (a slow one, mind you...), I had finished another book I was reading at about 11 am....I leave at 6 pm. So I went out and picked it up off the shelf and began. I finished it that week....all at work...hehe.
I liked it. I also thought the formation descriptions were vague, but the idea of the story is one that would probably work but is so unethical in today's society, it's not funny. Very good read.