Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn't see it that way. He thinks that giving gifts isn't exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student's shoe. This small act of rebellion sets off a battle royal between the students and the staff, but some surprising alliances form when Ender comes up against a new student, Zeck Morgan. The War over Santa Claus will force everyone to make a choice.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Not enough depth to call it a great book:
I got this book as a Christmas gift. At 126 pages it is the shortest book in the Ender series. Although the book is called an Ender Story there is very little of Ender in the book. Most of the book follows other boys in the battle school. One of the children is Zeck, a young boy that was selected for the battle school because of his photographic memory. Zeck was raised by a religious zealot that would punish him for not being pure enough. Zeck is an outsider in the school because he has tried to hold... more info
Raw fore edge:
I bought hard cover version to be more resilient to get worn out and to look nicer on the shelf. Unfortunately fore edge is not cut off and it looks really horrible.
This doest mean that is not possible to leaf through, it is only looks ugly.
Can't disassociate the author's politics:
Given Card's recent radical comments about government and personal rights, I don't think I could ever enjoy another of his books
There are better alternatives out there:
I've read a lot of Orson Scott Card's books, and have always found myself coming away from them a little frustrated. The ideas always seem to be interesting, but end up getting lost in mediocre storytelling. Card dwells on the same unique ideas so persistently, going back to the same well so often, that by the end of the book what I had originally found unique now just seems hackneyed. And now that I've found out Card is so outspoken politically with such (literally) fascist and discriminatory views, I... more info
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