Starship Troopers
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786195622 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 429 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Service on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper. Forget the battle scenes and high-tech weapons (though this novel has them)--this is Heinlein at the top of his game talking people and politics. In boot camp he will learn how to become a soldier, but when he graduates and war comes (as it always does for soldiers), he will learn why he is a soldier. . Many consider this Hugo Award winner to be Robert Heinlein's finest work, and with good reason
Forget the battle scenes and the high-tech weapons; this is Heinlein in his element, talking people and politics.. In one of Heinlein's most controversial best-sellers, a recruit in a future world is sent through the toughest boot camp in the Universe to join the Terran Mobile Infantry in battle against mankind's most alarming enemy. Many consider this Hugo Award-winning book to be Heinlein's best. Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Reserve on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper. In boot camp he learns how to become a soldier, but it is in war t
Put the Movies and TV Series Out of Mind not necessarily because they're poor (and some truly are) but only because Robert Anson Heinlein, Annapolis graduate, naval officer, and one heckuva writer, had Something To Say in everything he wrote, whether or not you agreed on that, and, most important for any writer, made you read it without the slightest coercion or gimmickry (hold this last thought).As for this book bear in mind when it was written but go along with the story to the very end and try not to compare-and-contrast with adaptations until you've finished the book. I'd first read it in nearly one sitting, and promptly forgot it, being . A classic political commentary dressed in a sci-fi wrapper Joe For all those who have only seen the movie, I urge you to stop reading this review right now and go out and buy the book and read it. Honestly, the movie does not do Starship Troopers justice. The book is not an action novel. It is not meant to entertain you with the endeavors of the Mobile Infantry as they battle the Bugs on various planets.This book is one of the greatest political commentaries of all time.Robert A. Heinlein expounds on controversial subjects throughout the work, from what it means to be a citizen to how the military functions (and its role in society), to how current political syste. Machinery's Handbook said Hard to choose Heinlein's BEST novel, but this one is definitely Top Three in my hierarchy!. Heinlein graduated from the Naval Academy, which is a VERY tough school, in the top quarter of his class. This novel is well informed by that experience, and should be required reading in high schools today. Not in English classes, but in whatever passes for Social Studies, if such still exist at all. It's his very best didactic novel, focusing on theory of government. The proposal that citizenship and the franchise be limited to those who have been honorably discharged from the military is well developed, and IMHO has great merit.