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Aug 19, 2016lexlothor rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
"Ender's Game" reads like a Boy Scout handbook for the Hitler Youth. Never mentioned in the book, in the film version one line was inserted that explicitly denounces what the world government in this future dystopia does with children as military recruits as a war crime. The author, Orson Scott Card is a Mormon from Utah. His upbringing grounds him in an authoritarian world view in which the end justifies the means. All self-sanctimonious musings to the contrary, strip away the high tech clap trap and sports fan enthusiasm for violent games and what is left is immoral work of warnography. I find it disturbing that this book was so highly received by the science fiction literary community. That this novel has spawned a series of sequels appalls me. It was an ordeal to get through to the end of one novel. I couldn't endure the rest of this franchise. This audiobook version is well made. It is curious that the legendary fantasy writer Harlan Ellison provided a "guest voice" for this production. He is a well known Hollywood liberal who might be considered to be the last person one would have expected to be involved in this project. I suspect that mine is a minority opinion on this work. Let there be those among us who shall remember that we are insane.