I don't agree. I think if I'd read the book as a teenager, I would have loved it. As an adult reading the book for the first time, it's nothing special.
I likewise did not enjoy the book as an adult reader. I thought it was far to apologetic for ultraviolent, genocidal overreactions to be considered healthy reading for teenagers. The end of the book is not "genocide is bad". It's "isn't is a shame that poor Ender had to be tricked into committing genocide?" It's not that "governments shouldn't be given the sort of power capable of genocide", it's that "you can get away with it scott-free if your intentions were good."
Also, the whole "they hate me because I'm the best" wore really thin on me. It's just not a thing you see amongst real kids. In fact, being good at things is a good way to get other kids to like you. The kids didn't like Ender because he was a self-righteous prick, a spoil-sport punk with a Napoleon complex.
The dialog also sucked. Grade A shitty dialog. As a teenager, you might be intrigued by the idea of alternative slang (and that is probably why Buffy the Vampire Slayer was so popular, and by extension why Joss Whedon has such a following now, but can't seem to follow it up). But as an adult, it is really annoying.
Maybe in highschool. In elementary school, having any perceived deviation from "average" is a great way to get ridiculed by the majority of kids.
I'm not going to destroy my prose with legalistic gerrymandering just because you're too emotionally underdeveloped to enjoy a story after knowing details about it.
I reread and rewatch stuff all the time. That doesn't mean I want to know how the story ends the very first time I'm exposed to it.
I think you're too emotionally underdeveloped to realize I didn't ask you to destroy your prose with legalistic gerrymandering in the first place.
In fact, I still enjoy reading 'The Little Prince'. Silly me.