Starship Troopers

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Summary: A poor attempt at classic Sci Fi
Review: I'm afraid this book is a poor attempt at a sci fi classic. John Steakly's "Armor" is the real deal. For sheer thrills and an "Icant put this book down" experience, give "Armor" a try...

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Summary: it was good
Review: it was very goo

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Summary: Exellent! I loved it!
Review: Superb! This is my favorite book of all time! This is defenitely Heinlein at the top of his career. I recommend this book to everyone!

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Summary: An excellant story of a young man growing up during a crisis
Review: I am a retired sailor, so although his boot camp is extremely more dangerous then anything I went through, it still hits home. Young men away from home for the first time, confusion and being lonely is very understandable. The pride of completing booth camp and the realization that you are not the same as before. His pride in his units and how he learns the art of war. Bringing his father into the story(who tried to bribed him not to join)as a fellow soldier is excellant. Although he wrote this story years ago, it is timeless. One minor note --- If they had stayed true to the book when making the movie Starship Trooper, It would have been a Blockbuster.

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Summary: Fascinating Yarn of Future War
Review: Even though this book was written several decades ago, it still has a contemporary feel to it. It follows the enlistment of a young man into the Terran Mobile Infantry, his tough training, and his battles with a race of intelligent bugs. The book is engrossing and is packed with great battle scenes. Beware if you read the book and then see the movie: the special effects are great but don't look for the movie to follow the book very closely especially in the area of women soldiers. One final note about the alleged "fascist" philosophies in the book. I thought that Heinlein's future world of citizenship was more in line with the old Roman concept rather than that of fascist concepts. If you're a die-hard sci-fi fan, combat fiction reader, or a political philosopher, grab a copy of this work.

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Summary: Good book, bad cover.
Review: This book ia one of the best I've read(and I read a lot) but why did you change the original cover? This cover makes the book look like the movie. And if the story hasn't changed then it has very little to do with the movie. Overall I'm very dissapointed with the publishers, but the book is great.

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Summary: Wonderfull BUT DONT SEE THE MOVIE
Review: This book is one of Heinline's. The people are great, and the political theory is about the closest to the truth i've seen. But the movie was Horrable!

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Summary: Sci-Fi movie v. S/F book
Review: I am a Senior in high school, and this book was recomended to me by my Science-Fiction instructor. It is one of the best books I have ever read--S/F or otherwise. There are some reviews on the Amazon.com review page concerning the movie. No disrespect meant to Mr. Verhoeven, but the movie had very little to do with the book. The movie was a great Sci-Fi blood and guts and T&A adventure film, but that was all. Very few of Mr.Heinlein's points made it to the screen. This book is an example of S/F in its finest. If you have seen the movie, I recommend reading the book and forgetting the they share the same title.

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Summary: Heinlein was not a fascist
Review: It seems to me that Heilein discusses various real-world today problems by letting people from a future world where those problems don't exist or at least are under some control look back and analyze them from an "outside" view-point. Heinlein says "Some of the child-rearing practices of today are rather strange"; he does NOT say "We should beat our children to make them better citizens". Heinlein was a humanitarian and a liberal in an age where the last large war had been fought against the faceless masses of Chinese troops in Korea ("Suddenly the entire hill was just Chinese, yelling KILL GI! KILL GI!...") which might perhaps explain the nature of the Bugs?

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Summary: Thought provoking, fasinating, a fearful prediction.
Review: Within the pages of "Star Ship Troopers" is a vision of the future where man greatest virtues, and his darkest possiblities, come to fruition. Heinlein takes the reader into a world ladened with high ideals governed with strict purpose. The concept of citizenship is presented in the extreme, forcing the reader to confront responsibility to the corpus versus the common notions of personal liberties. Is it facsism? Yes, but painted in that all to familiar notion that the "good of the many out way the good of the few, or one". But is order worth this price? As history has shown through the many "great" wars, and as it is rewritten in those to come, human nature seeks simplicity and security, which in itself breeds ambitions of power and control. As we read or daily paper, either reporting of the atrosities in Kosovo or the oppression in Iraq, we are again and again reminded that the erosion of the self in a society, even for the precieved good of the body, leads to oppression. To quell the human spirit, and the natural creative spirit endowed to all mankind, is an act of war upon humanity itself. I do not know Robert Heinlein's personal politics, nor do I care. He has produced a richly detailed picture of one of our many possible futures. It is one that should scare us all. To live without freedom, without the human rights of free speech, nor the ability to quesrion the world in which we live is no life at all, an empty exsistence. Great men and woman have paid the ultimate price so that others might get a glimce of this wonderful and chaotic state of freedom. No doubt many more will pay such a price, but it is one that must be paid. Blood will again be spilt for the Tree of Liberty to florish, but it will be by the freeman, the individual, so that his fellow man might be granted such laural. "Star Ship Troopers" is a masterful novel, built upon an all too real world. So was "Triumph of the Will" as well as other great works of propoganda. But genious, no matter the content, is a fountain that supplies insight, in this case fore warning. Read "Star Ship Troopers" in this light. Not a shining light of redemption and world order, but as a dark reflection of mans possibilities, if given the chance.