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Summary: It was a good book but not the best I have ever read
Review: Starship Troopers was not too bad. I liked the whole idea about mankinds struggle against this race of bugs. I didnt like the fact that much of the book was just about the main character going through training, it made it seem like it was a boot camp survival training book and not this futuristic war. I read the book before I saw the movie and once again the book is better. The book holds many more interesting twists than the movie did. However the ending of the book and the movie I felt were disapointing. The book captures you and then the ending doesnt cap it off with the knowledge you would like to have. I would still recomend this book though.
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Summary: The Holy Bible of Sci-Fi readers!!
Review: This book is THE book that every SF reader should read to call himself a SF reader. It's the world and goverment in the book that got me. When the teacher compared bringing up a puppy to the 20th century goverment we have now. It made me look at the way our world works and think we were doing a bad job of maintaining the world. I think the some one with power in the goverment should read this book and think about our world. The Federal Service idea was amazing. I don't know how Heinlein came up with this idea but it is amazing. The "powered suit" idea was great and the idea of the Arachnids was amazing also. This book is the best Sci-Fi book ever and I wish I could have met Heinlein and told him what a great book he wrote.
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Summary: OKAY, COOL FUTURE, STRICT POLITICS
Review: I was rather discouraged and, to be honest, downright bored by the book's constant rambling chock-full of military terminology and philosophy. I only agree with some of Heinlein's Starship Trooper politics; but they're somewhat menacing, like "no human has any rights" type statements. I picked up this book expecting, more or less, an action-packed, warlike adventure with a futuristic army versus vile, monstrous aliens. That's basically the situation featured in the novel, but what I really got was a long-winded glob of philosophy, hoping some cool war stuff are technology or more Bug descriptions would come soon. I like Juan "Johnny" Rico better when he was a young recruit/soldier, than a military career soldier.The movie was darn more exciting, however inaccurate. IT WAS NOT POORLY MADE!!!!! It could have been more accurate to the story. I do recommend this book, so don't get me wrong, just make sure you're ready more or less for a military description of the post-WWII-when-created future.
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Summary: Philosophy? Hah, more like Power armour!
Review: I first read "Starship Troopers" as an impressionable 12 year old, and my thoughts were along the lines of 'cool - space marines with power armour'. Having read it again (now at the venerable age of 18), I still think 'cool - space marines with power armour'. Maybe I'm missing something fundamental about the book, or that's just the way I am. Having read through some of the other reviews of this book, I find my self thinking 'what are they talking about'? This book seems to me primarily to be about war, then space marines, then, finally about moral and political philosophy. It amazes me to think that this book was written before the Vietnam war, yet it sounds very similar to many of the accounts (both factual and fictional) of the war that I have read. Is this because Heinlein is a visonairy, or are the experiences of war universal? I think a little bit of both. This book is possibly one of the best I've read, not only because of Heinlein's style and narrative technique, but also because of the sometimes gritty, sometimes rose-tinted approach to war, but mainly because of the powered armour! My approach may be to cheapen the book, and to look at the surface meanings, and I will most probably be frowned upon by English Literature teachers across the world, and probably by philosophers as well. I think that dwelling solely on the morality and politics contained in this book is to ignore the rest of it, and it is this, the rest of it, that is the fun, exciting bit that makes this book (sorry to be cliched) unput-down-able. If you want philosophy, go read a Boethius' 'Consolation of Philiosophy', but if you want space marines running around with stupidly powerful armour and weapons, read this (again and again).
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Summary: good book
Review: i was one of the people who saw the movie at the theaters and read the book later. Now i thought the movie was okay the book was awesome. I think both complemented each other well. The book served to fill in many of the philosophical points and finer details that the movie left out or didn't quite make clear and the movie gave pictures and actual life to Hienlien's words. What the movie also did for the book was actually show what actually went on at the battles like Klendathu and planet P (though they may not be so accourate)
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Summary: Thought provoking, to the point, a good read.
Review: Starship Troopers was a good read and the type of book that you find yourself staying awake at night anaylzing. Not because of Sci - Fi jump suits that provoke thoughts of Disney's Buzz Lightyear, but more for the societal and moral implications and commentary. It lays it on the line: in order to be a "citizen" you have to be proved worthy of the right to vote, that military training has to be hard and realistic, that above all no one should take life or personal freedom for granted. Most people will appreciate that he has transferred our social ills onto bugs rather than fellow humans as well. He does a good job of addressing some serious issues in his extremist fantasy world. It is a book that does what a good book should; make you stop and think.
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Summary: this is an awsome read
Review: Heinlein does it again, another awsome sci-fi book I love his work and this is one of my all time favorite's I have re-read it about twice a month. Its full of great action and technolgy.
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Summary: A good book, but not one of his better ones!!
Review: I can't believe some of the comments people are making about this book. Lighten up folks! I read this book in the late 50's. It was written for kids at a time when Heinlein was putting out a lot of SF. Adults did not read SF! It was read mostly by High School kids who had the imagination to realize we were on the brink of a whole new technological future. At the time I read it no one tried to put any significance to the plot. It was just another good science fiction book at the time a lot of good stuff was being produced. Many years later I met Heinlein at a book signing and told him it was one of the first SF books I had read and kinda hooked me on his writing. At that time he indicated their was no significant effort to send a message to anyone, he just sat down and wrote it as a good yarn. I guess it took a poorly made movie to get people to revisit his book.
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Summary: Ask yourself, "What ISN'T true?"
Review: Those who criticize the politics in Starship Troopers obviously live in a utopian world that doesn't resemble the one in which I live. First of all, the book is NOT FACIST! The main theme of the book is that the persons most qualified to make critical decisions for a DEMOCRACY are those who have SACRIFICED FOR IT! Citizenship was reserved for any persons undertaking ANY LIFE-THREATENING TASK on behalf of the state, not just military duty. Please get it right. Anyone who disagrees with the politics in this book should ask themselves, "What part of the 'past' that Heinlein describes DOESN'T resemble the world in which we live?" The answer is "not much." The truth hurts. I'm sure Heinlein knew that when he wrote his book.
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Summary: The Best!!!!
Review: I have read this book three times. Still it is one of my all time favorites. Trust me, the book is much better than the movie.
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