Starship Troopers

[Trolldor]

Picked it up I did.

[AshtonBlack]

I enjoyed the book.

[Elessarina]

I've not read it but I love The Forever War.. maybe I should read Starship Troopers. Have you read The Forever war Ashton?

[cowiz]

I liked the mixed shower scene

[Trolldor]

I wasn't aware the book had a mixed shower scene.

[Pappa]

I haz it, but still not read it.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I liked the mixed shower scene

I took the book with me to the jungle. (Along with LOTR and Stranger in a Strange Land.)

The movie is about five percent of the book with a lot of shit thrown in.

[Animavore]

There's a book

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's a book

Imagine the parts left out of the Peter Jackson LOTR movie. That's similar to what's left out of the SST movie. Our Hero starts out young, dumb and full of cum, and has to learn some hard lessons.

The book is a study of a possible social system, one where you can stooge along in life, taking care of yourself first. OR you can serve the community you live in for a while, two years in most cases. IF you chose to give back to the community, you get to join in the decision making process, i.e., you get to vote. No service, no vote. There is no stigma associated with not serving, it's just something you chose not to do.

[Trolldor]

There are a couple of other ideas there as well.
One part speaks about war being 'controlled violence' as a way of getting somebody else's goal.

[owtth]

There's a book

The book is more like this



As opposed to the movie which is a bit like this

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There are a couple of other ideas there as well.
One part speaks about war being 'controlled violence' as a way of getting somebody else's goal.

Of course. I don't want to regurgitate the book, but the above was the most important thing I got from it.

The controlled violence idea was perverted into the knife scene in the movie.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

One of my favourite artists. In her early years.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL6MAyTXMRA&feature=fvst[/youtube]

[Trolldor]

Enjoyed it. Agreed with some parts, disagreed with others.


Liked this statement:

While a judge should be benevolent in purpose; his awards should cause the criminal to suffer, else there is no punishment

[Geoff]

I was never much of a fan of Heinlein's juvenile books, (mainly because of Scribners' censorship) but that was one of the better ones (perhaps why they rejected it?).