Starship Troopers

[cornflakes]

I mean the book by Robert A. Heinlein. I was blown away by it-- I may not necessarily agree with what Heinlein is saying, but it's a thought-provoking book.


Intend to start on The Forever War soon and then a Philip K. Dick marathon, if funds allow.

[Zaraki Kenpachi]

I did not know that this was a book.

The movie is excellent. Saw it for the first time many years ago, and still watch it with pleasure to this day. Sounds like it's worth checking out to me.

[cornflakes]

The first part of the movie was damn cool, but I felt the romantic subplots didn't work at all. Read the book, it's different but waaay better IMO. ^^

[Zaraki Kenpachi]

Shall do! Visiting a library soon. :)

[Spartan27]

huh, I'm surprised it was book as well. I know that the 3rd movie is coming out on DVD, overall I only saw the first movie, it was bunch of campy fun I would say.

[cornflakes]

The tone of the books are not at all campy, even though it was written in the fifties. It's pretty much a thinly-veiled political treatise, but it works pretty well as a story too. And the Mobile Infantry in the book is very different from that of the cannon fodder ground pounder of the movies-- in the book the Mobile Infantry are equipped (and with skills) more like Master Chief than anything.

[Shdo]

what i liked about the book was when i found similarities to my militery service.

he really did a great job in showing the life of a raw recruit.