Just finished reading Starship Troopers

[theGinsue]

Starship Troopers got you all motivated didn't it? Now you want to raid a small country by yourself....I get that way too. It's a great book.

Saw the movie - HATED it.

A buddy gave me the book to read and I took it with no real intention of reading it since the movie sucked so bad, so must the book; right? Wrong. I finally got around to reading it about 2 years ago and thought it was a completely different story than the movie. I too enjoyed the political theories in the book.

Recommend buying and reading the book. Recommend destroying all copies of the movie as it's too painful to watch.

[Troublco]

I like a lot of Heinlein's stuff. Started reading it in high school, my dad gave me his copy of Ringworld.

The movie was a no brainer action movie, only. Not even a pale shadow of the book.

[KevDen2005]

Saw the movie - HATED it.

A buddy gave me the book to read and I took it with no real intention of reading it since the movie sucked so bad, so must the book; right? Wrong. I finally got around to reading it about 2 years ago and thought it was a completely different story than the movie. I too enjoyed the political theories in the book.

Recommend buying and reading the book. Recommend destroying all copies of the movie as it's too painful to watch.

The same exact thing happened to me. I wish the movie at least resembled the book...to me its a different story with the same name. I definitely had to add this to my collection and agree that the main take away is the meaning and value of citizenship.

[Elhuero]

I liked the movie. It's very quoteable (most of that comes from the film tho) but I don't think the book would really translate into a good film.

then again, not a lot of Heinlein stuff would. at least not without taking liberties with the story.

[ronaldrwl]

Liked the movie for what it was. I also liked the book with all the future weapons and military horseplay. But all the fascist BS was just interesting political fantasy.

[Circuits]

But all the fascist BS was just interesting political fantasy.

What did you find fascist in the book?

[ronaldrwl]

What did you find fascist in the book?

Their whole political system was based on fascism. A utopian fantasy world that would never work.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I liked the movie. It's very quoteable (most of that comes from the film tho) but I don't think the book would really translate into a good film.

then again, not a lot of Heinlein stuff would. at least not without taking liberties with the story.

The book would make a great movie if the director wasn't bent on trashing Heinlein's political theories and making him out to be some kind of fascist. The movie was trash and about the only thing it took from the book were the title and the character names. I'm never watching another Verhoeven movie again because of how he trashed that book.

[SAnd]

Never judge a book by its movie.

[Krasni]

Extremely good book. I read it while deployed in the 90's and watched the movie when I got back. I enjoyed the movie in spite of it being nothing like the book. I just figured it was two separate stories.