The twist at the end of this book genuinely just broke my mind when I first read it. I remember reading it, slowly realizing with Ender what was being said, and having to put the book down because my mind was just blown away. I still love this book, and still love coming back to it

Bean and Petra forever.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Abs. O. Lutely.

Bean!

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Love the little guy!

Watched this while unintentionally wearing my T-shirt with the original Ender's Game cover on it. Great hush man. I haven't reread this one in like 4 years. I may have to pick it up again soon. My favorite besides Ender is Bean btw, but Ender makes the story for me. So much so that it's been hard getting through the rest of the books that don't have him haha

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I always loved Bean. The Shadow series is fantastic.

@sydneykuhlman9440

2 жыл бұрын

i have that shirt and coincidentally i'm also wearing it!!

I am currently rereading ender's game, partly because of your channel, but also just remembering how good it was. it really is a great book, and I'm hoping to read the sequels to it afterwards

Your love of Enders Game, one of my favorite reads is what originally hooked me on your channel. I live your passion for these books. Great video Dustin.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And thank you for the kind email letting me know of the problem! ;)

@FIT2BREAD

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonArmyBooks I got your back!

I love the ender saga as a whole its my favorite...

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Speaker for the Dead? Amazing!

@iamcjan

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonArmyBooks yes super ... its realy hard to find a group where i can discuss the saga ... iam at a loss ..

I clicked on this video as fast as I could after noticing the notification.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

i JUST read this book for the first time and i'm generally not a sci-fi reading but i really enjoyed ender's game and want to read the other books in the series. it blows my mind that this book was written in 1985 and the way OSC utilized the net as a way to change ppl's opinions and minds on the global scale...all before the internet is the way it is. love your passion for this book!

@ReadingwithTatiana

Жыл бұрын

also my favourite character is alai for sure :)!

Your “hah?” at 13:20 makes me laugh

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I know you have a bulky TBR but have you not read my favorite book yet....???

@alicialaux428

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonArmyBooks it’s sitting on my shelf pleading for some attention.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Pls rd

Love the passion Dustin! Ender's Game is in my top 5 sci-fi books. I have read Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Ender's Shadow, and out of those 3 books Bean is my 2nd favorite character.

@fractuss

Жыл бұрын

I loved all 3 but Ender's Shadow was so damn good.

Glad to hear about the pacing and lack of fluff. I tried listening to this a few years back and couldn’t get into it. I think I’m convinced to give it another try now!

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Oh you have to try it again! I really hope you enjoy it this time.

Crazy just saw your first video you posted about this book not to long ago and subscribed. Now here you are making another video about this great series.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

More to come!

It’s next on my list. I’ve heard enough about it to know that I cannot wait to experience it for the first time.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Would LOVE to hear your thoughts after reading it!

@TheMrKaus

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonArmyBooks I’m currently in the middle of a very long series (the spellmonger series) but once I finish this I will report back.

I really liked Petra the first time but after reading the Shadow books I will have to say Peter is my favorite character after Andrew "Ender" Wiggin.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if I can ever forgive Peter for some of his more violent actions in Ender's Game.

@himanshugirigoswami4573

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonArmyBooks After reading the later books I separated the young violent Peter and the more mature one. Following Ender who did the same. And I was talking about the Peter in the Shadow books.

What a coincidence! I decided to reread this a few days before you posted this video, and once again loved it the whole way through. This series and its spinoffs are some of the best sci-fi books I've ever read. Super excited to pick up the Second Formic War series and read that epilogue tie-in book you mentioned.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Interested to hear your thoughts on the Formic War books!

so i accidentally already wrote you two essays on 2 of your other videos, so i'll try to keep it brief; - my favorite character in the enderverse is bean, HOWEVER in this book specifically i think it's Valentine. I found the story of her and Peter becoming Demosthenes and Locke extremely compelling, and I like how multi-dimensional her character is. She loves her brother, but she lets herself become a tool to convince him to go back to battle school. She is extremely ambivalent towards Peter, but he's right when he says she wants power just as he does. She's a wonderful set of eyes to watch Peter through, as well as explore her own turmoil, and I can't say no to a female character that isn't a caretaker or a sex object, with her own motivations and morals. - i wanted to know if you had an opinion of the allegory of Ender as a christ figure, saving humanity with his 12 apostles. I don't know if this is widespread or not, I thought of it on one of my many rereads, but it seems very intentional. Is Petra an unknowing Judas, serving Ender up to be crucified by Bonzo? is it someone else? Is this all a reach? Would love to hear your thoughts. Keep talking about ender's game, i find your videos super fun to watch! will be watching your one on the 2nd formic war books as soon as i get the chance to read them :)

@sydneykuhlman9440

2 жыл бұрын

spoiler: i did not keep it brief

Just found the channel and glad I did! EG is my favorite book of all time too - I even named my oldest "Ender." You mentioned in a couple of your other videos that your going through a reading slump and I might have a recommendation if you're open to it. To be completely transparent it's a shameless plug, but it might scratch and itch that you're struggling with, because, after all, I had a similar itch that couldn't be scratched, which is why I wrote the book to begin with. It's also got a few hundred reviews (90% of which are 4 and 5 star) so it's not complete crap. Lol

Yes, your first video was exactly that.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@himanshugirigoswami4573

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonArmyBooks I watched it after reading Ender's Game for the first time last year. It was a coincidence I found your channel.

Like you. I LOVE Ender's Game. But I don't love OSC as much as I used to. I don't think I will ever re-read Ende's Game as I want to just Cherish my memory of reading it Rather than risk that being tainted by my feelings for his writing now

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I try my best, in any media consumption, to separate the creator's beliefs from the book's content. It's often fairly easy for me to do unless they bleed into one another.

@DREWSBOOKREVIEWS

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonArmyBooks i try as well, however TBH osc I have struggled with that. But I expect it has a lot to do with being raised LDS aka Mormon and being intimatley familiar with that religion, which OSC is mormon, that I undersrand and can see more of it than a outside obsever.

This book is so good