Xenocide (Ender Wiggin Series #3)

Loved it

This book is the third in a series of 4. But it is arguable that there are more and there are but here not the main 4. In the series there is Enders Game, Speaker for the dead (3000 years after the first one), Xenocide, Children of the mind. There ones only going to be three but the last one were too long and he has to split it into two. In no doubt in my mind that he is my favorite author.
I loved it, although I do like all of the books in this is my favorite. It is my favorite because it has the most in-depth of them all. The reason it does it because it has the main climax of all the stories. So in this they haft to find out how to fix their main problems. How they do this is what makes it so great. How he can think of all this and make it believable is what makes him such an amazing.
Even thought this book was written many years ago I think that it has such advance technology in it that it could be believable today. Not crap that would be pointless and stupid he puts things in his books that would make seams and would be applicable today.
But I do haft to argue that people wouldn't like this because it is very confusing and it makes you think a lot and people just like simple books. That's what makes it so great in my opinion because it is a challenge to me and it gets me to use my imagination in ways that I never have before. So to cap it all I loved this book and I hope you will too after you read all the first books otherwise it will make no sense.

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Pretty good, but not Card's best

I really enjoyed 'Speaker', but 'Xenocide' left me sort of disappointed in the end. 350 pages of this sizeable novel are all philosophical rambling about the Descolada and things in general. It's not that some of it isn't clearly intriguing, but it gets tiring, and quite frankly, not a lot HAPPENS in this novel to pick it up. When something DOES happen, it can be really quite spectacular--Card crafts these moments extraordinarily well--and just for these moments 'Xenocide' may be worth the read, but be prepared think about alot more in reading this novel.

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Enjoyed this book

This book was a pretty good continuation on the Ender saga. I really enjoyed the first book and have read through to the 4th book so far. The books have a tendency to get a little deep sometimes, loosing that fun to ready flavor that the first book had but it was still a good read. If you want to continue with the "Ender's Game" story line, then this is worth reading.

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Premise gone WILD!

Ender started with a bang, slowed to a crawl in Speaker and then completely spiraled out of control in Xenocide. It's almost as if Orson Scott Card became really enchanted by his kitschy attempt to inject philosophical depth into his writing, and along the way forgot that he was supposed to be crafting an interesting story. The resulting mess of fiction is marked by the most lazy and unlikely plot solutions, creating a rank pile of BS that stinks through to the end. SPOILER ALERT In 3000 years, no one has managed to advance interstellar travel, but hey - lets get three or four laymen in a room to wish really hard and we'll invent wormholes! We have no way to synthesize a cure to this odd disease, so lets go into an alternate reality and imagine it so it will exist! I know, we'll have the one cripple wish himself healthy and create an alternate version of himself who is cured! Hey, no one in this book is interesting, so let's send Ender to into the netherverse and have him accidentally create new versions of his long dead brother Peter and sister Val. If I weren't reading this crap on my nook, I would have used this book as kitty litter.

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A great read

Full of ah-ha moments and challenges to ways of thinking

Dip's review

Hi, my pen name is Dipilodorkus and i love books.

This is a series that i personaly read when i was a child and as to be expected i did not realy get some of the realy deep and detaild sections of this series but i was still thouroly entertaind by it. It wasnt until ten years later that i picked up these books again and truely READ them and realised how deep and wonderfull this series is. I recomend this book and the other three too any and all book lovers on this earth who enjoy a good story.

May you live in peace.
- Dipilodorkus

Dissapointment

Loved first book Second book was good but not as compelling Xenocide is self indulgent and rambling. To much of it is Card's efforts to create a new philisophical explanation of life and god. Near the midle of the book I found myself skipping through sections to just finish it.

Good Sci-fi

This is similar to his other books. This one explores some very interesting premises. I enjoyed the ideas of space and time and the story of how Jane was created. Good Sci-fi.

Wonderful book

The beginning caught me off guard with the Glorious Light character but the book turned out to be excellent as always with an Ender book.

Xenocide

Xenocide is a book in a great series. In the book a girl Gao Jing is one of the godspoken and is taking into testing. Valentine a relative of ender wiggin is going to the planet where gao jing is on to help the planet from the lustainia fleet coming to destroy it. IN the book there isnt much rising action but its there. The book is a character v. chacter and Character v. self. I would recomend this book to people who like the series and like science fiction but it doesnt make sense if you havent read the ones before it.

I'm a fan

I actually really enjoyed this book. There are parts that don't live up to the typical "Ender's Game" standards, but the book makes up for that by for the first time really going in depth about the philosophical and moral issues presented by the series. Card also manages to keep alive his recurring theme of an off-world impending military assault closing in on Ender. Card knows how to keep me interested. At points I found myself staying up until 4 in the morning because I couldn't put the book down. I recommend this book, and this series for that matter, to anyone who can read. It's just that good.

A Good Book, but not Great

Xenocide is the third book of Ender's Quartet, and I must say that it is th weakest book so far. Unlike the others (Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead) it is relatively long and slow paced. I felt somewhat drawn away from the action during the chapters that concentrated on philisophical and scientific subjects. The book picks back up towards the end of the book, and I am hoping that Children of the Mind will return to the greatness of Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.

HAVE TO READ THE ENDER QUARTET!

this is a must read if you have read 'enders game' and 'speaker for the dead'...and if you havent read those... READ EM'. the book is the third out of four and it will not dissapoint you!

Best Book Ever Writtin

This is the best book ever writtin if you can understand it once you understand the philosophy of The tree and the bug you will find that humans know nothing

Good book

I like the book but, it was out there from reality, fiction I know but it was far out there.

This book is a little disappionting.

I think this was an alright book that could have been better. The parts in which I enjoyed most was the chapters with Qing-jao and her father, Han Fei-tzu. I also liked how the main-plot and sub-plot coincided so smoothly. Overall I thought this was a boring book with the exception of the last ten chapters or so.

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Leaves you hangin'

This is the third book that continues the series of my favorite books. In this book Ender Wiggin and Valentine Wiggin, Ender¿s sister, struggle to reserve no less than four different intelligent alien life forms on their planet, Lisitania. There is now a child named Gloriosly Bright, who is a big help in the war of survival of the planet Lusitania. On this planet, Ender found it, the Hive Queen, Pequininos, and humans could all live together in one place. Then there is also another thing that lives on the island, but it is a virus. A virus called `descolada¿, a virus that kills all humans it gets into. But there is a problem, in order for the Pequininos to become adults they need that virus. People start to fear that the virus will escape and spread even more. The only way to get rid of it is to destroy the planet and everyone who lives there. And the fleet is on its way to destroy the planet to promise Xenocide. This book is a very slow book, unlike the others. But when something does happen it totally is worth the wait. The book kind of leaves you hanging, but it was just a great read.

This book is amazing.

If you like hard core science fiction this is the book for you. Full of completly possible science set thousands of years in the future. This is the best book in the saga. I hold this book very close to my heart. I only wish it was longer.

A great sci-fi novel

Ender and Valentine Wiggin are brother and sister who both share a gift of genius. The Starways Congress has sent a war fleet to their home planet of Lusitania, which is inhabited by two alien species and the deadliest virus ever known. They have also issued the order to destroy the planet to commit xenocide. The book is the third of six, and keeps readers grasping for more. Although we could try to start reading this book without reading the first two books, it is advise against. Orson Scott Card combines the vast mysteries of space with very real portraits of men and women caught in epic-making events. Rich, long, brilliant, Xenocide is a great novel, classic SF of the highest caliber. The first thing readers notice about 'Xenocide' is the difference in sheer size compared to the rest of the Ender Series. It's the sheer complexity of the story Card is telling here. This novel is a return to the style Card used in 'Ender's Game.' By that I mean, he's telling two stories at once that will some how come together in the end