Ender's Game kept appearing on my friends' list of childhood/YA favorites, so I had to try it. Granted, I'm a little past its target audience, but that's never stopped me from loving a book. 
 I was quite disappointed, to say the least. Card feels the need to recount the miniscule details of every practice battle. Reading this book felt like someone describing a computer game they were playing. "And then Person X shoots thing X! And then Person Y shoots Person X!" ...I was bored. 
 UNTIL the end. The end! I would have loved this book if it had only started at the end. Successful and empathetic human-alien communication, after years and years of war? The trials and tribulations of establishing a new civilization? The implications are more intriguing.