Books

       

So over my winter break I had to read two books "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card. And I have to say that I found the books to be really fascinating.  I don't think that I have ever read a book that has caught my attention so much.  I have to admit it was very difficult to put the books down. I also found the characters to very interesting.

“Ender’s Game” was very exhilarating.  It was about Ender who is considered a third because on Earth you could have no more than two kids.  There were few but Ender was chosen to go and help win the next war that was coming against the buggers.  He was very intelligent and passed just about every test that they gave him.  He eventually became commander of his own fleet then he was later sent to command school to further his training.  Ender was lied to and no one ever mentioned that the simulator he was practicing on was the real thing that he was actually fighting the buggers.  And so in the end he was never allowed to go back to earth because everyone wanted him for their army.  Then he became governor of the first colony on the planet which the buggers had lived on.  Finally he found a cocoon which contained the hive Queen, then decided to travel to try and find a place for her to be reborn.

“Speaker for the Dead” was also very exhilarating and hard to put down.  There is now a new alien race on the planet of Lusitania and now it is up to the speaker for the dead who is Ender to help confront the mystery and the truth.

Both books very good and I would recommend them to be read. They might seem kind of boring at first but once you start reading them you begin to get hooked.