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Have you read the Millennium trilogy by Steig Larsson? Very good read.

 

Lou x

Have you read the Millennium trilogy by Steig Larsson? Very good read.

 

Lou x

 

AH. I've just wanted to recommend this book too. Read it without some doubts!

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Happy reading, I've put up some information on Ender's Game, the first book of the series.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Enders-Game-Ender-Book-One/dp/1904233023/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347399717&sr=1-1

 

Ender Wiggin is Battle School's latest recruit. His teachers reckon he could become a great leader. And they need one. A vast alien force is headed for Earth, its mission: the annihilation of all human life. Ender could be our only hope. But first he must survive the most brutal military training program in the galaxy...

http://readitswapit.co.uk/BookDetails.aspx?BookID=325702

 

Winer of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the

 

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