Review: Ender Wiggin....a name I will not soon forget!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
I wish I had purchased this box set rather than the individual books.  I was a little skeptical so I started with Ender's Game and found myself hooked big time.  But then I passed on the advantage of saving the few bucks by buying this box set so I continued to download each of the remaining 4 offerings in the series...but I will say...go ahead and save some money and time by just grabbing this one and enjoy!I am a lover of Sic-Fi and this quintet of space-time adventures of Ender Wiggins and his way above average siblings is one of my favorites.I will not get into names, places, plots, schemes, pit falls etc....just not my style as I would rather you read the trailer and go from there.I love most any book that will take me off the planet earth and into the stars and beyond.."Where No Man Has Gone Before"...you know what I mean....get me some warp speed travel time and let me have a run in with some weird, unknown, unhuman/human like entities with some high tech toys to play with and I'm good to go. Orson Scott Card does this for me in this fine offering and I am happy with having indulged myself and totally recommend it to any of you who enjoy a good look at something off world with a good look at humanity and what may well happen if we encounter an alien species.I will have to say that I found more than a few pages wasted on too much unnecessary(for me anyway) dialog that meant little in the big picture. It was not so bad that I just flipped my Kindle quickly through but did find myself skimming a good bit through these portions and did not want later in the read to find I missed something important. Most of the occurrence's were of communications between the major characters by what amounts to email/video conference which is what you would expect folks to do but the story would not suffer at all by cutting back on these segments by about...half.Overall, I can not really go down on this series as anything but a good read. It's not full of swashbuckling, thrill a minute, can't put this Kindle down but it is a trip with a young man who you quickly fall for and just continue to want to know more about. Ender Wigging...has now become one of my all time favorite Sci-Fi characters of all time. One of the ones you hate to see go!!!Love the "Piggy's" and the "Buggers".....very, very good addition to my space-time world!!