Robert A. Heinlein / Stars Ship Troopers

[Bear44]

Also check out "Stranger in a Strange Land". Great book and I think it had a lot to do with the Hippie movement. The timing is right for when he wrote it and it introduces a lot of the concepts that the hippies embraced. I know that sounds like the book would be terrible, but it's not. Fun read!

 

[VC94]

Seems the film makers wanted to make a parody of sci-fi movies and used his book as the platform. Too bad they didn't get his book, nor that to pull off a good parody one must be well above the level of an average comic.

I enjoyed A Stranger in a Strange Land (SSL) despite thinking it was a shameless theological plug. Now I think it was more autobiographical, and he even had the wit to warn his worshippers in the very last paragraph (and I won't spoil it for you!)

It might be blasphemous, but I recommend Richard Bach's better work, Illusions, as an interesting companion read to SSL.....

 

[Powderdry]

I don't think anyone expects a movie to follow a book it is based on very closely......but damn! I just finished reading Star Ship Troopers and I bet Robert A. Heinlein is spinning in his grave. I have never seen a book butchered like this one was. The movie is so different that if you changed the name of the movie and a few people in the story you would not even realize it was based on the book. The movie was a shallow story that presented an inaccurate caricature of the "military" mind set. The book is a very thoughtful examination of the Military, government philosophy and society as a whole. Heinlein was a sharp guy.

If you have never read the book, I highly recommend it.

I'm currently working through it.

 

[The Russian]

I read it back in Elementary school and saw the movie last year on Netflix. It was a terrible attempt of a movie roughly based on a book... Halo and Starship troopers have more in common than the movie.

 

[Jeddak]

Typical Hollywood butchering. I heard they were remaking a Starship Troopers. No details in IMDB yet.
Great themes in that book. If you liked it, I'd also recommend "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

TANSTAAFL!
Current White House seat warmer would do well to read it.

 

[Aegis]

tanstaafl!
Current white house seat warmer would do well to read it.

tanstaafl!

 

[Captain Kaboom]

Concidently just picked it up again for a little in flight reading. Lots of good pertinent quotes.

"There is no such thing as a dangerous weapon. There are only dangerous men."

 

[Savage19NRA]

Typical Hollywood butchering. I heard they were remaking a Starship Troopers. No details in IMDB yet.
Great themes in that book. If you liked it, I'd also recommend "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

I second this! The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is an allegory to where are as a nation now.

 

[Aegis]

Heinlein was a Libertarian. It shows in all of his writing.

 

[Crackerz]

The DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons were exactly opposite, even though they were both directed by Ron Howard. TDC was very, very true to the book; A & D was almost completely different from the book. Whole storylines and characters were left out.
The Shawshank Redemption was probably the closest to the book as any movie I've seen.