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Business Stationary Mart - Ender's Shadow
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List Price: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312868604
ISBN: 031286860X
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: 1999-08-31
Studio: Tor Books
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Summary: Better than Ender's Game
Comment: I really liked Ender's Game, and then I read Ender's Shadow....I must say, Ender's Shadow, In my opinion, is just...Better. I love Bean. I believe that may be the reason I like this book so much, because the character Bean is so likable by ME. I love the way Orson Scott Card lays out his characters. All of them have depth. The "scenery" Card paints for us is so speculative. I have this perception of battle school in my head such that I would LOVE to go there. I want to be part of Ender's team. I want to be friends with him and Bean and their friends. I know it sounds silly, but it's true. And isn't that what fiction books are about? Immersing yourself in a fantasy? Card, with his writing, makes it easy for me to Indulge in this series. Whee!
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Summary: That bean is a character
Comment: Out of all the books in the series, this one was especially awesome. I'm surprised by some of the weak unfavorable reviews for this book. I found it to be throughly awesome. Bean's childhood was insane. Card stayed true to the original story and basically retold it from a completely different angle. A lot of good stuff for the movie in this book too...if the movie ever happens.
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Summary: Bean there, done that
Comment: A parallel to "Ender's Game" that is, in some ways, better than the original. This one follows Bean, who is more than just one of Ender's lieutenants, through some of the same events. The boring trips into the computer game have thankfully been omitted because Bean refuses to play. It doesn't replace "Ender's Game", which is overall an excellent novel, but complements it nicely.
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Summary: Listen to a well crafted story
Comment: For me there is nothing better than listening to a book on CD while chewing up a lot of asphalt during a road trip. I discovered this little gem 'Ender's Shadow, at the local library and became an addict to Ender, Bean, and the Shadow series as a result. For those of you that think you have to read or listen to Ender's Game first, don't worry Bean and his story stand up all by themselves with no problem.
The author 'Scott Card' has often stated that he believes his books are best when the story is spoken. No argument here. He uses multiple well known narrators including one of the very best Scott Brick. Fair warning is to be given however. Once you listen to Scott Card's Ender and Shadow series on audio CD, you will never feel the same about actually reading a book again.
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Summary: Bean Rocks!
Comment: If you just finished reading Ender's Game, go to this one next as was recommended to me. This is the story of Bean, smallest member of Dragon army. The tale takes place during the same events as Ender's Game but from Bean's perspective. Loved it. Would have given in 5 stars but it took a little bit to get going. Enjoy!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew.
With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender's Game, a book that expands and compliments the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion.
The human race is at War with the "Buggers", an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win.
The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging then into an irresisible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean--the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers.
Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older.
Bean's desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender....
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