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I don't know that it's "great SF literature" in the sense of a Lord of The Rings or a Neuromancer, but it seems to hit people of a certain age in a certain emot

• gambiting 13y ago
  It maybe that I have read it as an adult for the first time,so I could neither sympathize,not find the idea of a brilliant 11 year old running an army particularly believable. I hated the idea of polarizing the world between the "good" US and the "bad" countries of the Warsaw Pact, even though I can see that it was a popular sentiment at the time. I did not like the dialogues, did not like any of the characters(maybe apart from Ender's sister,but even she was annoying at times). I could not sympathize with any of the issues in that book,nor stand for any of its ideas. I really wanted to stop reading halfway through, but forced myself to finish it to have a full picture of it. Having said that, I can still see why someone who read it as a child would like it - but it does not make it good overall. Just because I've read and loved the first Harry Potter book when it came out,does not mean it's a brilliantly written story, because it's not - it's interesting,but it's not well written. And I feel like this is the same issue with this book.