Ender's Game

I read both this book and [b:Snow Crash 830 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312497352s/830.jpg 493634] when I was a freshman in college, and those are pretty much the only 2 books I had time for. Both of these books were amazing, and both completely changed my literary life.For me, [b:Ender's Game 375802 Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Orson Scott Card http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1316636769s/375802.jpg 2422333] isn't at all about figuring out what is really going on. I think it's about innocence, and the using of that innocence by people who have their own very immoral agenda. I liked the ending-ending, if you will, the epilogue. This book is truly about something so very devastating, so very immoral, so unconscionable, so unbelievable that it needs that spark of hope at the end. I mean, [b:Old Yeller 130580 Old Yeller Fred Gipson http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171994329s/130580.jpg 2686896] is damn sad, but there are other dogs out there, maybe not exactly like Old Yeller, but definitely similar. But there wouldn't have been any more Buggers to replace these, none at all. And so the ending, that spark of hope, helped me not cry myself to sleep and be so appalled about what humanity can be capable of.And that's something else that this book is about: what is humanity capable of? This is like [b:Lord of the Flies 7624 Lord of the Flies William Golding http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165637417s/7624.jpg 2766512] but in space, and we humans are on our tiny island of Earth in this huge galaxy with no one to watch over us and tell us how to behave, and look what we might actually do. And I believe that we're capable of it, and that's terrifying. So again, I needed that ending, I needed to know that maybe we aren't as bad as the book made us out to be.This book made me think about a lot, and I still think about it. Even though the themes in this book are very strong and may be able to stand without a great plot, Card managed an awesome plot as well. I think you could even read this book solely for the plot; it was a lot of fun to read with great characters and a very believable future.