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The enemy’s gate is down

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

July 21, 2019 by crystalclear 7 Comments

This was the book my library chose to have as our Teen Book Club pick for the summer.  It was my suggestion, both because it’s an awesome book and because we had multiple copies in our library.  I was supposed to have a grand total of *one* teen show up today, and instead I got *zero.* Sadness.  This was one of my favorite books in high school, enough that I read the sequels, which are weird AF.  (My suggestion: skip them, and read the Ender’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Back to School, cannonball, cbr11, cbr11bingo, Orson Scott Card, the later ones are okay, the movie was bad, the sequels are also kinda bad

crystalclear's CBR11 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Back to School, cannonball, cbr11, cbr11bingo, Orson Scott Card, the later ones are okay, the movie was bad, the sequels are also kinda bad ·
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