Enders Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)

Posted on 05 October 2017 by Orson Scott Card

Welcome to Battleschool.Growing up is never easy But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn t hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it s how to survive And not with fists He is way too small for that But with brains.Bean is a genius with a magician s ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander Ender Wiggins perhaps his only true rival.Only one problem for Bean and Ender, the future is now. Download Enders Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1) author Orson Scott Card – kino-fada.fr 4.0 to 4.5 stars Okay, now don t turn away thinking that this book is just a re telling of the story of Ender s Game from the perspective of the character of Bean Not at all This is not simply OSC cashing in on the success of the Ender Series This is a completely different novel and there is little to no overlap in the actual events of Ender s Game It simply takes place at the same time as those events The purpose of this story is two fold First, we get to re...Not sure if this was my third or fourth read of Ender s Shadow Couldn t believe I had never reviewed it or some of the other Ender books I reread this year So I really enjoyed this book, which is a parallel novel of Ender s Game And if you re wondering, I would be on Team Bean I prefer the Ender sequels, but Bean s story of Battleschool and the war with the Formics iscompelling than Ender s version in my opinion That said, Ender s Shadow, Ender s Game and the Ender s Game Series Not sure if this was my third or fourth read of Ender s Shadow Couldn t believe I had never reviewed it or some of the other Ender books I reread this year So I rea...Very impressed with how good this was I count myself in the party that there shouldn t have been anything past Ender s Game like The Matrix and most any sequels Hollywood makes nowadays , but I have to admit this was great.As a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card s classic Ender s Game, Ender s Shadow follows Bean, the kid Ender treats like the teachers treated him.While hesitant to pick this up, I had heard that the Shadow series is better than the original quartet, but I couldn t get away fro Very impressed with how good this was I count myself in the party that there shouldn t have been anything past Ender s Game like The Matrix and most any sequels Hollywood makes nowadays , but I have to admit this was great.As a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card s classic Ender s Game, Ender s Shadow follows Bean, the kid Ender treats like the teachers treated him.While hesitant to pick this up, I had heard that the Shadow series is better than the original quartet, but I couldn t get away from the feeling that it would pretty much be the same book I m glad I was wrong.The first quarter or so of ...When I read a description of a book summing it up as a retelling of a story from a different perspective, I groan internally and my interest wanes slightly.Ender s Shadow follows those exact lines We switch from Ender s perspective to Bean s, the brilliant dwarf child who serves under his command.What shocked me the most was how muchI preferred Bean s perspective Ender grew up with a loving family and had a generally conventional outlook for a genius Bean functions as a direct contradic When I read a description of a book summing it up as a retelling of a story from a different perspective, I groan internally and my interest wanes slightly.Ender s Shadow follows those exact lines We switch from Ender s perspective to Bean s, the brilliant dwarf child who serves under his command.What shocked me the most was how muchI preferred Bean s perspective Ender grew up with a loving family and had a generally conventional outlook for a genius Bean functions as a direct contradiction, having grown up in squalor with no family, a tiny body, and a brain capable of cutting through almost anything.Bean spends most of the novel slicing through the world of the Battle school at angles that give him vastlyinformation and awareness of the world than Ender possessed, and his angry, calculating view gives the story a much richer perspective.The only issues arise from the few points where it directly intersects Ender s Game Bean wasn t written with...I personally found that I enjoyed Ender s Shadowthan Ender s Game Perhaps because I found Bean, as a character,relatable in how he analyzes and views people and the world in general He also feltreal as a character in that he is awkward and clueless and greatly flawed.The pacing for this book is a little less smooth in comparison to Ender s Game The plot, on the other hand, is a little better as you have a greater insight into the backgrou...While Ender s Game taught me that reading is fun, Ender s shadow is my favorite book and series in the Ender Universe Ender may be the hero the universe needed but Bean is the most powerful weapon the universe had The down and dirty story of an orphan child who had to learn to survive on his own at the age of four and looked on the world in contempt is just the hero I needed to re introduce myself to Card s work.I read this book back when I worked at Barnes and Noble and would sneak reads be While Ender s Game taught me that reading is fun, Ender s shadow is my favorite book and series in the Ender Universe Ender may be the hero the universe needed but Bean is the most powerful weapon the universe had The down and dirty...This is the simplified version of Ender s Game for the kiddie set that can t handle rich characters with moral ambiguity, moral introspection, and character growth.Card does great work teaching people how to re imagine stories from different viewpoints and with different motivations in his workshops It s a shame that he didn t demonstrate it here.Instead, we get Bean a great character in the original story as a classic Mary Sue, a wish fulfillment character with all of Ender s skill but none This is the simplified version of Ender s Game for the kiddie set that can t handle rich characters with moral ambiguity, moral introspection, and character growth.Card does great work teaching people how to re imagine stories from different viewpoints and with different motivations in his workshops It s a shame that he didn t demonstrate it here.Instead, we get Bean a great character in the original story as a classic Mary Sue, a wish fulfillment character with all of Ender s skill but none of his angst or growth around it Even the adults who spend the first book walking a delicate line trying to save Ender from their own work fall down at Bean s feet ...March 2010Previously Ender s GameEnder Wiggin, hero of Earth, did not defeat the Buggers Formics single handedly He had help Soldiers, followers, people in the background, unimportant characters whose own stories didn t really need to be told, you know where I m going with this, etc etc One of these soldiers, Bean, was smaller than Ender, younger than Ender, infinitely smarter than Enderand not nearly as interesting.But that didn t stop Orson Scott Card, so here we go Bean, an orphan March 2010Previously Ender s GameEnder Wiggin, hero of Earth, did not defeat the Buggers Formics single handedly He had help Soldiers, followers, people in the background, unimportant characters whose own stories didn t really need to be told, you know where I m going with this, etc etc One of these soldiers, Bean, was smaller than Ender, younger than Ender, infinitely smarter than Enderand not nearly as interesting.But that didn t stop Orson Scott Card, so here we go Bean, an orphan living on the streets of Rotterdam, catches the attention of Sister Carlotta, a compassionate nun on the lookout for potential soldiers in the war against the Buggers Formics Bean is incredibly intelligent despite his age and lack of education, and his high test scores get him into Battle School There he makes all sorts of wonderful friends well, just one and has a glorious time hiding in the backgr...dac nu ar fi coperta asta care pe mine m ngroze te, a spune ca e perfect.Publicat la treisprezece ani dup Jocul lui Ender , Umbra lui Ender urm re te evolu ia lui Bean, unul dintre personajele ini ial secundare ale aventurii lui Ender Orfan, mult prea firav pentru v rsta sa i f r s i cunoasc prea mult trecutul, Bean reu e te s supravie uiasc n iadul str zilor din Rotterdam datorit inteligen ei sale Abilit ile lui neobi nuite atrag aten ia sorei Carlotta care l recomand F dac nu ar fi coperta asta care pe mine m ngroze te, a spune ca e perfect.Publicat la treisprezece ani dup Jocul lui Ender , Umbra lui Ender urm re te evolu ia lui Bean, unul dintre personajele ini ial secundare ale aventurii lui Ender Orfan, mult prea firav pentru v rsta sa i f r s i cunoasc prea mult trecutul, Bean reu e te s supravie uiasc n iadul str zilor din Rotterdam datorit inteligen ei sale Abilit ile lui neobi nuite atrag aten ia sorei Carlotta care l recomand Flotei Interna ionale, deschiz ndu i astfel drumul spre coala de Lupt Evolu ia stilistic a lui Orson Scott Card este fascinant , mi se pare uluitor modul n care acesta reu e te s i captiveze cititorului printr o poveste al c rei deznod m nt e deja cunoscut Pe l ng surprinz toarea origine a lui Bean i incredibila luciditate prin care Orson Scott Card i motiveaz ac iunile, cartea asta este genial i prin subtilitatea cu care surprinde fr m nt rile politico sociale ale P m ntului Pentru mine, Umbra lui Ender nu este doar o poveste s...This book made me wish I could forget that I had ever read Ender s Game.Not because it was necessarily a better book though it is longer but because the two books offer different views of the same events from two distinctly different perspectives Ender Wiggin is brilliant and empathetic, a boy torn apart by his own doubts and fears and driven to greatness by a government that sees him simply as a means to an end It is only his ability to understand and come to love those around him that ge This book made me wish I could forget that I had ever read Ender s Game.Not because it was necessarily a better book though it is longer but because the two books offer different views of the same events from two distinctly different perspectives Ender Wiggin is brilliant and empathetic, a boy torn ap...

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05 October 2017

Orson Scott Card