/lit/ - Literature

Ender's Game was pretty disappointing, I felt. The plot simply went on and on, the cast size constantly increased, the characters didn't seem clever, the military strategies were very trite and the book falls entirely into the trap of telling the audience everything.

The material they learned in Battle School also seemed completely pointless and had no actual applicability to everything. It almost appeared as if the author had no idea how to actually grasp military strategies, formations and technology or have any idea on how to relate to people and therefore had to translate the majority of the book into a videogame. Their "school" was essentially an isolated echo chamber: I have no idea what this author was trying to do.

My disbelief was really suspended when the book explicitly told the reader that they weren't going to teach the MC how to interstellar travel because it was pointless.

None of the characters felt like actual people other than Peter and Valentine. They only had about three scenes but they had more development than the main character and all the other characters put together.