Ender's Game

Famous 1985 novelisation of the short story.
==Length==
284 standard pages, I thinkAn apparently complete PDF version I found was 547139 characters long..
==First read (May 2013)==
===Format===
Kindle, had a few weird spelling mistakes so a bit nervous about its quality
===Journal===
Started it on May 20th, after finishing Harry Potter and the Natural 20. I should be reading The Witching Hour, Tale of the Body Thief or Assassin's Apprentice, but this is more appealing to me right now.
Made an effort to read it every day, while waiting for Skyrim to buffer, or in bed. Since I'd finished Hikaru no Go I had a lot of free time. Finished it on the 24th.
It was pretty good, and interesting, but not great. I was close to giving it a 0, to be honest, until the epilogue had some nice science fiction in it. I don't really get the main story. It had a lot of elements I don't see the point in, like the children's nudity, and the whole Earthside sideplot with Ender's siblings. It was very bleak and seemed to really hammer home the message that Ender was prepared to strike first but hated having to, so that the ending really wasn't that wow (of course I'd already read the short story so I knew it was coming). Maybe that's why I wasn't amazed, actually, because the impact of the 'twist ending' was removed.
===Rating===
1
===Reading record===
Previous book: 'Sir Poley', Harry Potter and the Natural 20 (II)
Next book: Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
==Ratings, awards, mentions and recommendations==
Recommended by Hayley, on Goodreads, even in response to the criticism I'd heard of the author ("Hmmm! Maybe he goes a bit off track and includes some displeasing opinions in his later work. Maybe similar to Anne rice's descent into madness? I'd still recommend this book though as I did not pick up on any Mormon teachings (Unless he's impressively subtle)").
A major influence on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (all Battle Magic scenes).
Said by someone on Less Wrong to be as good as or better than HPMoR.
Number 4 on the r/PrintSF 2013 poll.
Gibbered about and praised all over the place.
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