Ender's Game and Late Nights Reading

I began reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott yesterday while biting into my afternoon apple and I was a little surprised. It's really good. Science Fiction isn't really my thing. I don't normally like to give summaries of books on here, but I just have to give you a little sneak peek:

Ender is a 6 year-old boy in a futuristic society, where aliens have invaded earth once and the humans won, but only because they had a great military leader. But that military leader has died now, and they need a new one just in case the aliens come back again. Current military leaders choose Ender and are determined to make him the best military leader of all time. 

Ender while being trained to be Earth's next leader in the 2013 movie.

I know, it sounds a little silly. Like, aliens? Really? But its fabulous. Its great. I can't even handle all its awesomeness, for the following reasons:

First, this author knows how to write. The plot advances perfectly and keeps the reader fully engaged. On Saturday night, I literally held my eyelids open at midnight because I just couldn't stop reading, even if I was half asleep. I've never been that intent on continuing to read past midnight before. I have a strict no-reading-past-midnight-no-matter-how-much-you-like-the-book rule. Turning the light off at 11:58 is a common occurence when reading a good book for me, but past midnight!?

I just couldn't stop.

And this kid is 6 years-old. I can count the number of books I've read with a main character this young on one hand. Actually one finger. (I've only one other book like that.) I think that's really interesting because most books are about people in an age that people remember being. The only thing I remember about being six is like making kool-aid popsicles and reading picture books sitting on my mom's lap.

 He demonstrates Ender's outstanding intelligence through depicting Ender's thought process in an advanced way. You almost forget that Ender is a six year-old. Orson Scott writes, "Then he settled down to the serious business of designing a security system on his own desk, since the safeguards built into the system were obviously inadequate." (52) I think he really demonstrates how intelligent Ender is even at six years-old, because he thinks that the system was "obviously inadequate." Scott's diction choice really creates a certain personality for Ender that demonstrates how unique he is, especially at Ender's young age.

I hope you consider giving Ender's Game a try, and I hope you end up holding your eyelids open at midnight so you can keep reading.