Enders Game

THe sequels are a completely different animal. I liked them but they aren't anything like the first book.

And this.

The rest of the Ender quartet is very philosophy driven.

The Shadow series is more in line with Ender's Game than them.

So if I want to think a lot read the Ender series and if I just want to enjoy a book read the shadow series?

Well, how would you phrase it? Which do you recommend and in which order?

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Speaker for the Dead>Ender's Game.

And I thought Xenocide was even better, although some disagree

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Keep reading. Speaker for the Dead is better than Ender's Game.

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There are two sets of books. one involves the kids you met in ender's game and is an amazing series.

One involves random aliens in space and sucks balls.

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Well when you put it like that....

Speaker was good but I couldn't give two shits about the characters. I found just about all of the characters in EG interesting.

I enjoyed both series, but I prefer the Shadow books predominately because Bean, Peter, Petra>>>>>>>>>>Ender and Val

Neither of the main series that the original book spawned are anything like EG. The Shadow books really aren't sci-fi and are more conventional political/action thrillers.

The Speaker books are much, much more personal and philosophical. I enjoyed Speaker and Xenocide a lot, but Children of the Mind was just way too out there for me.

Ender's Game is the original. Ender's Shadow is the same timeline centralized around a secondary character in Ender's Game, Bean. They split into two separate sagas, with Ender's saga not featuring many of the same themes/storylines/characters from the original. Bean's saga features many of the kids in the battle school, focusing around Bean and Ender's brother.