Heinlein is one of my favorite authors and this is one of my favorite books by him. There are two Heinleins, and I don't much like the author responsible for Stranger in a Strange Land, I Will Fear No Evil and Time Enough for Love--although even in those books there is pleasure to be found in his pr...
Sorry, I just didn't like it. I'm not knocking Heinlein's skills as a writer. The one thing he does very, very well here is to make the main character's voice realistic. Reading this book feels exactly like sitting down to several long conversations with a combat veteran. The way he describes milita...
Told from the point of view of a career soldier this is an interesting look at a possible future. The diatrabes against certain social phenonema is interesting but to me kinda boring, although it does allow you to get into the society depicted. It's not a society I'd like to live in but horses for...
Well... This was the movie. I felt like I was reading a treatise on communism for most of the book, and for the rest it was a military procedural. And then the bug battle at the end which just seemed anticlimactic. Just thought I was going to get something different since the movie is one of my favo...
This book has some of the most compelling arguments I have ever come across for corporeal punishment. I also feel that it really illustrates Heinlein's genius when it comes to the details, both for technology and governmental design.
Nutshell: scion of self-obsessed capitalists assimilates to military ethos and thereby joins civilized society.The transformative process of the narrator is not as important as the result of the transformation, which is presented obliquely by this-is-john-galt style speeches from various instructors...
Oh so much better than the film that completely butchered a great science fiction book and made it cheesy and crap. This is more of a story about a solider fighting a war in which he is such a small insignificant piece. It is a great book that is thematically similar to [b:The Forever War|21611|The ...
When I watched Starship Troopers for the first time, I could not get over Denise Richard's nose...or Casper van Dien's rather lousy acting abilities. The only thing that actually made the movie awesome was NPH, just back then he was "that Dougie Howser dude" to me, but all in all the reason I kept w...
A few things that come to mind that were different between the film and the book:• In the book Johnny Rico is of Spanish origin (Juan Rico)• The Galactic War features the bugs but there is also mention of other alien races in the book• There was no love triangle in the book (there wasn’t any really ...
If you have ever seen the 1957 movie The D. I. with Jack Webb as a Marine Corps drill instructor then you are already familiar with the plot of Starship Troopers. The novel is a love song to life in the infantry and generations of Science Fiction writers have been inspired or appalled by it in equa...
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