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Ender's Shadow

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Michael Gross
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From the author of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning international best seller, comes the parallel novel, Ender's Shadow. In the first book, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. But Ender wasn't the only child in his Battle School. There was also Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist and his friend, the only one who was with him in the final battle. Now Card tells Bean's whole story, while expanding and complementing the earlier tale.
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©1999 by Orson Scott Card (P)1999 NewStar Media Inc.

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excellent complement to Ender's Game

Great storytelling - and character development. Read/listen to Ender's Game first.

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Bean is the man.

This is a brilliant character. One would never have imagined such complex workings happening behind the scenes in Ender's game. One wants to know Bean more and more and more.

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Great listen - if you can hear it

Audible needs to upgrade this recording so "Ender" fans can hear Bean's story of Battle School. Format 2 is nearly unlistenable.

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an amazing parallel

although the recording is nit the best this story is an incredible parallel to ender game.

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If you hunger for more of Ender's Game

Ender's Shadow is a nice companion book to Ender's Game. If after reading Ender's Game you hunger for more of the same "like I did" Ender's Shadow will do. Although, I was disappointed that it wasn't unabridge, I felt the need to go out and buy the book to fill in the obvious gaps. The next book in the Shadow series is Shadow of the Hedgemon, and It is excellent! The weakest and latest book in the series is Shadow Puppet, But you get so attached to the characters that you just have to buy it. I suggest reading the shadow series before buying Speaker for the Dead, if you have a hard time with Ender's character aging significantly by the time Speaker for the Dead takes place. The Enderverse book also helps to bridge the age gap.

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Flows poorly

If you have listened to the other Ender books then you might find this one a little disappointing. The story is fine and the narration is good, but you can tell that this book is abridged.

While the style is like Card's other Ender books, this one seems rushed and does not flow like the others.

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Great story/ horrible recording

Recorded with 2 empty tin cans and a piece is string. I feel like I was listening to a story from the other side of a thick door.

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don't download this version

amazing writer fantastic voice actors terrible sound quality. popping peas in the mic loud tease hard case General static noise in the background honestly just all-around low-quality sound. get a different version

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listen to the other version.

No... Michael Gross had a bad take. maybe it was caused by the quality of the time but no...

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