Welcome to Litsy!

Since everybody's playing Helldivers 2, it's time to revisit the classic! Here's a clip from ep. 18 Starship Troopers by Heinlein

https://youtu.be/YcYZhhhoaj8

#starship #troopers #heinlein #helldivers

A fun read, definitely differs from the late 90s movie adaptation.

I loved this author as a teen. But somehow I missed this one. About bugs. Yuck. Anyway....

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Gah! Went to start a new (to me) book, and the front cover fell off. 😳 I think this one cost about 50 cents at the FotL bookshop, so it's not like it was just off the press, but still.

Pretty interesting read. Was expecting more bugs, but got a lot of philosophical talk. Highlighted tons of quotes and will definately reread it. Now I just gotta rewatch the movie.. took me on and off around eight hours to read this. It's not very long, but there were a few dense sections that were a bit of a slog.

I'm going to bed for work now, will calculate points later.

I'm glad this is just a random 3 favorites, not like my 3 all time favorite books, that would be impossible!!

Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Dune - Frank Herbert

#Favs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

thrilling, thought-provoking, and an all-around great time. this book also has one of my favorite endings ever—I couldn‘t stop smiling.

I enjoyed STARSHIP TROOPERS way more than I expected to, given I‘m apparently the only Litten who hated the movie. (I was very young when I saw it. Maybe I‘d feel differently now.) It‘s absolutely got an Agenda, caps necessary, and I spent a lot of time interrogating my response to it, but it‘s also very much a How Stuff Works book wrapped up in a military-flavoured School Story.

ie, it‘s My Thing, even though I didn‘t always agree with it.

I absolutely loved the 1997 movie adaptation of this book. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the movie was actually a satire of the book. The book was deadly serious in its message of military propaganda at the beginning of the Cold War (and was controversial for its time) and the movie was a kitschy dismantling of the original message. However, I found them to both be good stories with effective messages.

📷: Google Books

...and now for something completely different...
After our long slog through Karamazov, we started, this is our new breakfast read. Just a few pages in, but my daughter is giving it a thumbs up.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

‪“The pious critic will allow any speculation at all, on any subject—as long as it conforms to the unwritten assumptions of the new orthodoxy.” Robert Heinlein, defending Starship Troopers‬

#RedBooks 📕 and my tiny tree 🎄

#DeckTheShelves

Yes! Ladies and Gents the best B movie ever is on! I watch this movie damn near every time it comes on because its so cheesy and glorious! I definitely reading the book which is much different from the movie and really interesting. You'll get an amazing laugh when you realize how garbage the casting was! I can't stop watching!

Next up for the Litsy Reading Challenge 2017: Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers." This one will satisfy the "Judge by the Cover" category. I've been fascinated with the artwork for years, but never bothered to read it until now!

#litsyreadingchallenge #litsyreadingchallenge2017 #2017 #readingchallenge #scifi #heinlein #starshiptroopers #robertheinlein #readmore

Recommended to me several years ago, by a Navy chaplain of all people, while we were underway together. It finally came up in the queue. Fascinating discussion of social responsibility and franchise. I'm a sucker for a good military training novel. This one isn't as consistently compelling as Dorsai! or Red Rising, so, for some, it might be better to audiobook rather than to read.

Fantastic book, excellent discussion of military ideals and culture. Highly recommend it to everyone.

This should be considered a science fiction classic!