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Enders Shadow

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Read together with OSC's classic Enders Game, Enders Shadow is a masterpiece of perspective on leadership. While this is basically the same story as the Original Enders Game, Card gives us an improvement on his own great work by way of his improved and matured abilities as a writer, but more so with the unique privilege or seeing a story you think you know through another viewpoint, changing what you thought you knew.

The great lesson I took away from this story is this,

1) The smartest person in the room isn't necessarily the best leader.

2) The best leader always listens to the smartest person in the room

Orson Card is the master of the moral dilemma, the conflicted hero, and for requiring the reader to examine his own motives.

I love this story

I love Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) as well as Ender Wiggin, and that book will always be my favorite of the Ender books, not to mention one of my all around favorites. That being said, I think this book is better.

This is the story of one of the supporting characters in that book, and as such a large part of it takes place beneath the surface and behind the scenes of what we already thought we knew. As for the new parts of the story, they were inventive, dramatic, fascinating, sad, and well written.

Ender's Shadow revealed dimensions of Ender's Game that fascinated (and some that kind of angered) me, it had many remarkable characters (some of which touched my heart and some of which chilled my blood), and plenty of dramatic events that made me rejoice or cry (and sometimes both).

I gave this book five stars because it was wonderful and it's also one of my favorites. I would probably even recommend it to people who for some reason can't or don't want to read Ender's Game for some bizarre reason, because I think it could stand on it's own. I really do love this book, and think it's excellent, and I really like Bean. But I love Ender, and I love Ender's Game more.

I never thought Card could have written something else as good as Ender's Game but I think he surpasses it with this one!I couldn't put it down and highly recommend it to all fans of Ender's Game.

This set of books has come highly recommended from all my geek friends. I haven't started it yet, but it's on my pile to read soon.

I read "Ender's Game" first at the age of twelve. After finishing it, I confronted my literature teacher with a question of which book came next. She told me that "Speaker for the Dead" was not allowed in the school library, but "Ender's Shadow" was the same book, narrated by Bean. And I, being a major Bean fan, was excited.

At once, I found the book to be extremely exciting. Throughout, he manipulates, but does not harm. He quietly watches all that goes on around him, and stores the information for later review. I loved how he was responsible for nearly everything that happened in the original version, and that he was just as smart as Ender. I would recommend this book to just about everyone. It is clean, and only somewhat morbid, but the overall story line has astonishing appeal, and I still reread this book often.

I just finished re-reading Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Ender's Game is a classic, first-rate novel... enthralling and smart. What surprises me each time I read Ender's Shadow is just how much it holds up to, and in some ways surpasses Ender's Game. It is not a sequel, as you probably know, because it covers the same events of Ender's Game from a different viewpoint. And it is oh so good. It is not a book that is in the shadow of any other book... it is its own masterpiece.