#book: ender's game

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast. But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.

#polls #book: ender's game #author: orson scott card #genre: sci fi #genre: young adult #genre: classics #year: 1980s

[meat-loving-meat]

Nona the Ninth // Songmaster

Nona the Ninth // Ender’s Game

Harrow the Ninth // Ender’s Game

Tamsyn Muir // Orson Scott Card parallels

#The Locked Tomb #tlt #Nona the Ninth #Harrow the Ninth #Palamedes #Camilla Hect #Augustine the First #Ender’s Game #Songmaster #Ender Wiggin #I AM ILL. #yes osc is pretty damn homophobic. however #Songmaster is a beautiful book dripping with queer desire and I think tombies would LOVE it #and Ender’s Game is a no-brainer recommendation for Tombies because of the John/Ender parallels #mine

[yoonyia]

I need to draw more enders game stuff, if you don't have content create your own and die with grief that there's no fandom.

be the fandom

become the hoard of brains

I need help I stayed up way to late last night

#enders game #ender’s game #ender in exile #im getting the shadow books soon i swear to god

[intriga-hounds]

the barnes & noble by me is moving, so everything was 40% off!!! i got 17 books for under $200 😎 so heppy 🥲

#books #some of these are for my classroom library #for example my copy of ender’s game is fallin apart #some are for creative writing class #some are just for meee

[dramamines]

#i just know im gonna end up rereading pjo #i need to tho #before the series comes out #i miss the characters #i last read like 5 years ago its been too long #but i have all these recs as well #so ima let u decide #ballena rambles #books #reading #poll #percy jackson #scholomance #his dark materials #dune #the enders game #red rising #book recs

[elytra404]

I love enders game as a book. as a movie, i have complex feelings that are mostly negative.

but one of my favorite things about the book was the fact they rarely describe the characters, and leave the imagination to decide what they look like.

In my head, Ender's hair is dyed a dark blue that slowly grew out over the years into his natural light brown. In my head, his eyes where baby blue and we'll they lost their innocence too quick, they remained that bright baby blue.

In my head, Petra is dark skinned with short ginger curls. And her eyes where a dark brown, the opposite of Ender's in a way that made them almost burn. And the brown eyes and the ginger hair made her look like she was on fire sometimes.

In my head, Bean has a dark brown whisper of a bowl cut. And his face was a battlefield of freckles. His shoulders and arms where the wreckage of the freckles gentle battle.

and none of these are right, and none of them are quite the same as how anyone else see's them. and it's definitely not how the movie saw them. but i dont really care.

#enders game #i love this book #bookblr #rambles #ender wiggin #petra verkaik #bean enders game

[diaryofbookquotes]

Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

#book quotes #book+quotes #books #booklr #bookblr #enders game #orson scott card

[thebrandonross]

Yet to not marry him would be like murdering herself, for if she was not with Libo she could not think of who she would be then.

“How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.”

She pressed her face against Libo’s shoulder, and her tears skittered across his chest.

- Speaker for the Dead, Chapter 3

Orson Scott Card

#speaker for the dead #enderverse #enders game #book quotes #orson scott card #osc #quotes #I really like the path to hell part of this quote #it’s why I pulled it tbh #trm personal #had to do with an intrusive thought I had #such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out #that about sums it up #I said I would stop tagging stuff #maybe next time #maybe this time #I guess I won’t do it #maybe we’re both just monsters

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#scifi #books #Ender's Game #Orson Scott Card #Ender's Saga #poll #'Ender's Saga' is the title Goodreads gives the series anyway lol #result: yes #l: English

[fuck-em-up-your-grace]

I’m super surprised that homophobic, misogynistic, racist Orson Scott Card could allow such tender, vulnerable, platonic love between two boys in his book, but God am I grateful for it

#alai #ender wiggins #enders game #I swear the kiss scene changed my brain chemistry #they’re so good for each other and their friendship is so beautifully sweet and :’) #anyways i was talking to a friend about books and eventually Ender’s Game came up and now I can’t stop thinking about it

[transrevolutions]

your enders game takes are so real

ty ty. like fr tho how the fuck does osc write such gay characters and then be so homophobic irl.

#ender's game #always gonna have a soft spot for that book #asks #ehh-gg #pigeon.txt

[meat-loving-meat]

#just finished my ender’s game reread and I’m crying so hard I might throw up. #I don’t even have the words to describe how this book makes me feel. FUCK. #Ender’s Game #Orson Scott Card

[charliesinfern0]

just finished watching the live action osomatsu-san movie and it was pretty good!! it was really funny, the sets were really cool, and the actors were all really good! (though jyushimatsu ended up being my favorite hehe ^^)

here are a few screenshots i took that i thought were funny :)

#it was crazy but like it was my kind of movie #im gonna spoil some things in the tags so if u wanna go watch it urself stop reading!! #uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #ok were good :) #it was very silly #choromatsu joins the yakuza #osomastu and choromatsu get stuck in a timeloop with a new love interest #ichimatsu joins a killing game that todomatsu is the mastermind of #karamatsu goes to real life new york #jyushimatsu goes back in time to a black and white movie #ichimatsu becomes the joker #all of this is out of context but i would have to explain the entire plot of the movie for anything to make a little sense #basically the plot is that the sextuplets get stuck in different genres of movies #the side cast of totoko chibita iyami matsuyo and matsuzo were delightful #the story enders which are movie exclusive characters were also really neat #theyre named end close and period #yknow like the end of the movie the closing curtains of a play and the last period of a book #i just thought that was neat :) #yeah it was pretty good! :D

[gailhai1storm]

may i have some peterachilles thoughts/headcanons/anything 🥺

The fact that I havent read all the books that have them as central characters makes. this a bit hard, like I have thoughts but its hard to speak on a lot of it.

So im going togive you my thoughts on both of them just in stream of consciousness cause that will probably work better.

Ok so Achilles is so fucking facinating to me, cause he is absolutely masterminding things and plotting but I get the distinct feeling that he actually does overestimate people

there is hubris there but he truly thinks people are also plotting against him and thinking the same way he is, while also understanding that he is better at it than them.

I find this fucking hillariouse to put againct Peter who first off knows that Achilles could fucking destroy him and probably is trying to and is smarter than him. But Peter also has this odd confidence in himself and what he is doing that I find so utterly fascinating. I actually know someone a lot like peter and just that deep knowledge that you are missing something pared with hubris is facinating.

Thats the main place (from what ive read) that I get the ship from. It makes the trust Peter has make more sense. He wants to give Achilles freedom, and shiney things, because he enjoys him. He trusts him, but at the same time he cant.

I always imagine both of them just so paranoid about the other, Achilles more than Peter, cause peter has confidence in a way Achilles doesn't. Achilles does not understand kindness, not really.

Its part of what makes there dinamic to intesting,

Achilles wouldnt understand the kindness a first, wouldn't understand that this is admeration not pitty or groveling

cause Peter does not view Achilles as greater than him, but his equal his match, they challenge each other.

I picture them in a spiral, thinking their thoughts, pulling and pushing but perpetually funneled together and into the same place around and around.

They are infatuated with each other, and it tastes like medium rare steak, their relationship, sweat, and full, but you can still just almost taste the blood.

They are vile and put each other through the ringer but at the end of the day they love the others mind, the others drive, and they end up needing each other.

because to loose your match is to loose yourself.

#i dont know if this is what you wanted #or if its coherent at all #but this is how i feel about them they just dbcbfw #sorry if i said anything jsut incorect i really need to read more of the books #i actually have read a lot of them but so out of order everything is very jumbled in my brain #enders game #perterachilles #peter wiggin #achilles de flandres #them. #sorry for it taking a while to respond #gail hail speaks

[dare-to-dm]

So my favorite book is war of the worlds, i like a good alien invasion story, you got any recommendations for books about alien invasions of a similar tone?

It's been forever since I've read War of the Worlds, so I remember the plot but not the tone. Still, here are some books I'd recommend with perhaps similar themes:

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card:

Ender is a child prodigy who is recruited into the military and has all his skills honed at a very young age to defeat the alien enemy that earth is at war with. Though he excels at violence and strategy, these skills are at odds with his innate compassion and empathy for his enemy. Orson Scott Card is a homophobic asshole, so maybe don't buy this one if you can access it some other way. But this book is considered a classic for a reason and well worth your time if you haven't read it yet.

World War Z by Max Brooks:

Not an alien invasion, but a take on the zombie apocalypse. It's written as a series of interviews done in preparation for a documentary on the world wide campaign against the zombie threat. I know zombies are overplayed these days, but this is honestly a fantastic book written in a unique style with an interesting perspective. Though it lacks a traditional narrative with a main character, it still reads with a compelling arc.

Interworld by Neil Gaiman:

Joey is a kid who discovers the amazing ability to travel between dimensions. He discovers a bunch of alternate versions of himself from these different dimensions who must team up with each other to save the universe from an evil magical faction of would be conquerors.

#thanks for the question! #more people should ask me about books I love it #Ender's Game #World War Z #Interworld

[frogspawned]

i think, at the end of the day, you have to respect the work you are adapting. a writer doesn't have to be a fan of the source material, or strictly follow the primary story, but you have to understand what made it good, what made it appealing, and what it meant to say.

i would say netflix's dungeon meshi rigorously follows the original manga, often panel for panel, to great effect. it's an excellent adaptation that understands the themes and character of the work. it celebrates it for what it is. conversely, i'd argue that amc's interview with the vampire is spectacular precisely because of the way it breaks from canon. it actively 'yes, and's the book, imo, thoughtfully exploring the themes on its own terms. changes are not inherently bad, nor is a perfect replica inherently good.

you can like a work, and not understand it. you can understand it and not be a fan. but if you can't respect it, you should just be writing original work.

#ie i dislike ender's game but i get what it was going for #and if someone changed it to a lesbian space opera about child soldiers i would probably like it more. but then it wouldn't be ender's game #also i have seen some Terrible interpretations/adaptations from fans. just loving something isn't a guarantee that it will be good #frog croaks #thinking about the rash of adaptations and remakes over the last decade and feeling very tired #natla is another in a long line of adaptations that wanted the IP for the inherited fanbase #assuming they are idiots who will eat up any slop served because it was a kid's show #the witcher's writing room actively making fun of the books. classy. #the rings of power wanted a cheap fast lotr with some ~grrl power~ slapped in to shield themselves from criticism #(which is a symptom not the REASON it is bad) #et cetera et cetera #anyways. original works are not inherently perfect but you should at least have enough writing chops to understand what they are about #before you start yammering how they're dumb