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Summary: Thought Provoking Read
Review: I read this book when I was in high school, and have re-read it several times since then. The novel, in itself an interesting hard-science fiction story, is also a thought-provoking look at how a person transforms from a self-centered child into a responsible adult and citizen. I do not espouse the politics presented by Mr. Heinlein, but I do like the emphasis in the book on personal responsibility, and on putting the common good above your own. I agree with the comments that the dialogue is awful, the characters are poorly drawn, and the situations are at best improbable; however, the ideas presented are interesting, the technological advances are fascinating, and the story does draw one in. For all the flaws, I would still highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Juan Rico, the hero, starts as a good-for-nothing kid, and ends as a leader of men, committed to protecting his home. The book is the story of his career, and how he becomes a man of conviction. I found the book inspiring and uplifting. This book speaks strongly of a virtue neglected in modern society: Civitas, the willingness to take personal responsibility for the safety and continuation of one's civil society. I've never seen a better description of the commitment that fuels a -moral- military man. So far from praising blood and glory, the book deplores it as a regrettable necessity, to be minimized (an attitude shared by every career officer I've met). Since Heinlein was a Naval officer until his forced retirement (for tuberculosis), the people ring very true. Truly, not to be missed by thoughtful people.
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Summary: Thought provoking and well written...
Review: The main thrust of Starship Troopers is not the intrinsic value of guns, suits, robot armor, or bugs. Regardless of how much people in these reviews seem to praise the movie, it truly has no basis on the book. Whether you like the book and not the movie or the movie and not the book, at least agree that they are apples and oranges. This classic of small unit leadership truly evinces RAH's ability to draw from his expiriences as a cadet in the Naval Academy and give us an accurate representation of life in military service. His political theories are dubious at best, his ideas are controversial, his writing is exciting, and Starship Troopers is irrefutably the premier classic of small unit leadership.
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Summary: You'll miss the point if you blink
Review: Two major objections to this book:1) Lame story 2) Not really scifi, just a thinly guised political tract. One reason why it doesn't matter: RAH extrapolates a possible society based on Federal Service. Even though he skimps on most of the usual scifi details, he elaborates endlessly on the "what ifs" of military life. Those who get caught up on the lame storyline (and it is a bit lame in conventional terms) misses what the book is about. The main character Johnny Rico starts the story in RAH imaginary world, but outside his idealized system. And then, through page after page of mind-numbing preaching, you understand why the world is the way it is. As Johnny learns why it all matters and has to be the way it is, so do you. The plot is carried internally with its main character. The bugs are just window dressing on the plot. As a side note: With this is mind, the SS Troopers had about as much to do with RAH's book as a PBS special about whales has to do with Moby Dick.
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Summary: It is good
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Summary: it is a very good and entertaining book+the price is good
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Summary: It makes one think ... life today is not that bad.
Review: This book is getting outdated. Read it now. It will make you think. However, it is not as classic as some would make it out to be. The dialogues are poorly written. The enemy illdefined, and the characters are ... poorly conceived. Otherwise, the book offers some potent and fascist answers to world problems today. The author obviously had some gripes against society at large, but at the same time, he destroys his rebellious and radical stature by composing a dialogue that gets no more realistically vulgar than "Gosh". No Action. Just politics. Most of it bad. Still, it was a great read!
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Summary: It will make you think, if you give it a chance.
Review: Enough people have retold the tale in brief so I don't have to. The real meat of the book concerns rights versus responsibilities. I came away regretting not having served my country in the armed forces, and committed myself to using my voting franchise in as responsible a manner as I can. (end of soapbox) One thing that did come home to me in a big way is the report in the book's "history" of the juvenile gangs: I look at the gang scene around the country nowadays and wonder how, forty years ago, he could know us so well. Did he have the "right" solution to the problem? I daresay, with proper responsible handling of the lesson of choices and consequences, it would serve us better than our present system. But, would we be brave enough to try it? Definitely read with your kids. I have.
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Summary: A superb book.
Review: I first heard of ST when I was a little Air Force brat, playing in the base library. I finally read the book after seeing the movie. (Okay movie, glad I saw it first, the book is light-centuries better.) The book made me think, HARD. When I went off to college, this book came with me. (Heck, this book may have influenced my college choice...Army ROTC and bucking for a BS in Aerospace Engineering.) A word for the detractors of this book...it's not "overly militaristic", it's accurate. (They do call you "Mister", and you usually don't like it.) As for RAH's politics, I happen to find them perhaps a bit flawed, but far from fascist or communist. All in all, one of RAH's best works, and a book I suggest every young person should at least thumb through. -Andrew Miller, Cadet Private, Eagle Battalion, Army ROTC
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Summary: The book is much better than the movie!!!
Review: The cool thing about the book is that at the beginning, unlike the movie, is that the troopers had realistic suits that would amplify the movements of the troopers. They could jump really high, use cool rocket launchers, and really squash some MAJOR BUGS!!! We are talking about some crispy bug juice.
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