Starship Troopers
1959 • 292 pages

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August 15, 2024

Read this one 21 years ago. Doesn't have too much in common with the movie of the same name. Short book, fast read.

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This is an excellent book. Do not let the pathetic movie adaptation prevent you from reading this.

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VERY different from the movie. Some of the technology doesn't hold up and the politics are, well, what they are, but it lived up to its reputation.

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It's certainly a very immersive book. There were some parts I personally disliked, but overall a great read

May 10, 2025

I don't know why they thought this needed a movie, or how they made it better than the book without making a good movie.

April 5, 2025
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Half the hand-wringing about the book’s totalized society evaporates when one reads it alongside the acid trip of Moon Is A Strange Mistress. Like the Beatles, the wonder is that the same middle of the 20th Century could hold such a centrifuge within itself.

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February 23, 2024

An enjoyable read. Certainly a bit of a slow burner with a lot of philosophy of government and war which I found interesting.

June 20, 2023
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8/10

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May 6, 2022

Actually read this a while ago and forgot to update my status. Also forget a lot about the book but I think I liked it?

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July 22, 2021

I think this is an underrated book. It was enjoyable and it's easily recommendable.

July 10, 2021

Hard to believe the same guy wrote this wrote A Stranger in a Strange Land.

What a glorious mindfuck, this one.

June 15, 2021
June 7, 2021

I enjoyed the book.
It's very fresh and aged well.
Only downside is the lack of a solid plot - it's mostly Rico's biography and some military skirmishes.

February 15, 2021

An overall good read. I really enjoyed the story, but felt that it ended really quickly and could have been further expanded. The book was much better than the movie. To be honest the movie barely followed the story line at all.

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