Collect Starship Troopers Chronicled By Robert A. Heinlein Issued As Textbook

an English copy this time and still as good as I remember,

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Esta es la novela que catapultó mi amor por la ciencia ficción militar, En ella Heinlein explora, a través de los ojos de Johnnie Rico y la Infantería Móvil, el honor, la madurez y la supervivencia.
No hay que estar de acuerdo con sus ideologías políticas y militares para disfrutar del libro yo prefiero ser pragmático y abrocharme el cinturón.
Más allá del criticismo es válido evaluar si es inevitable el conflicto y la violencia en todas las situaciones, De qu otra forma podemos obrar cuando una raza alienígena de insectos destruye nuestras ciudades y amenaza nuestra especie

Es un libro que ha trascendido e inspirado a toda una legión de escritores como Haldeman, Steakley, Card o Scalzi algunos juegos como StarCraft y una película en.
Juzguen si estas páginas son dignas de su tiempo,

One of my guilty pleasures is comparing books to their movie adaptations, I picked up Starship Troopers, never realizing that it was originally a book, wanting to do the same, Aside from some very basic concepts and character names, the book is a completely different animal, There are a handful of action scenes, but the book is focused on Johnnie Rico, from his point of view, He begins as a privileged, upper class academic, but chooses to go on a different path by joining up in the armed services.
You watch him evolve into a great soldier, as he is taught, trained and inspired by his instructors and superior officers, both in the classroom and in the field of battle.
I also very much appreciated the dynamic between Johnnie and his father throughout, This book is fun, original and a solid read,
Big nasty communist spiders are attacking Earth and all the planets it has colonized! It's a battle between man and bug, and who is to save us

I'll tell you who! Guys with really fucking big guns, that's who! With spacesuits that make it so they can jump over buildings, and deflect bullets, and drop from spaceships to the surface of planets without getting hurt! That's who!

These guys get dropped onto planets with their spacesuits and their big guns, and they can incinerate some little brown people like you wouldn't believe, then they can leave without a single casualty.
This is who is gonna fuck up the big spiders, AMERICA, FUCK YEAH! COMING TO SAVE THE MOTHERFUCKING DAYAY!

That's yer plot, other than experiencing the trials and tribulations of boot camp through the eyes of a protagonist who spends quite a bit of time philosophising about society and politics and all that good stuff.
And this MIGHT make it sound like I DIDN'T like the book, That would be entirely wrong,

This book is so vivid, and so passionate, in its description of what it is like to be in this army that I couldn't help but be sucked in completely.
It's an easy, quick, fun read, and it's passionate in its monologues about how society should be, I loved the sections where he's explaining his moral sentiments since I've never understood how someone could join an army and go kill people without questioning the motives of the war itself.
Personally, whenever

I kill someone, I like to know the reason I'm doing it,

But it truly is a different way of looking at ethics, isn't it Mr, Protagonist believes that only those who have fought and risked everything for their nation should be considered full citizens, because they were willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of their nation.
I can see how someone with a fairly black and white view of reality might think this makes sense, But. By fighting in a war you are condoning a war, This means that if the war is ethically wrong, you are doing something ethically reprehensible, So shouldn't it matter what the war is about I know, I'm arguing with a dead guy, It's my review, and I'll argue with a dead guy if I want to,

Heinlein's protagonist also makes an argument about the prison system and how it doesn't actually reform those who do time.
I totally agree with him here, Somehow he tries to equate this with an argument that you MUST spank children for them to have a sense of responsibility.
Uhh, yeah, back to symbolic logic class with you, Bob,

But moving on, . . I found it quite interesting how dualistic our protagonist's thinking is when it comes to ALL PEOPLE, F'rinstance, you can't trust a civilian to do a job that requires "fighting spirit" women are good pilots, all seem to have great smiles, and they're "the reason men fight" gay men apparently don't exist in this world, but women don't get to fight Bugs wearing those cool spacesuits because, well, they're all sexy and small and fragile and stuff.
Then, within the military, the guys who haven't made a jump are lesser than those who have, Protagonist's peeps look down on the Navy and get in fights with them, etc.
He does have a name, but it's a boring one, I prefer calling him Protagonist,

But then I started wondering if this kind of attitude is necessary for the military to function, I'm too skeptical to EVER join the military, and that has nothing to do with fighting spirit, But maybe, in order to do what they do, soldiers HAVE to feel like they're the best of the best, doing the best thing that could ever be done with their life.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to motivate themselves to jump out of the spaceship and kill the spiders, or guard the border against Mexicans, or defuse bombs in Baghdad, or whatever else might get them killed.


So, reading this book got me thinking about the mindset of this protagonist, and thinking about the soldiers and marines I've known, and.
. . well maybe as much as I disagree with this mindset, perhaps it's a necessary mindset for someone in the military, And we need a military, So maybe we need some people who think in this dualistic way,

Anyway, this is what Starship Troopers got me thinking about, Part of this Heinlein can take credit for: if this book is any indication, he was more than willing to speak his mind, and he clearly had a lot of ideas.
These rambling monologues where Heinlein was channeled through his protagonist were just as entertaining, if not moreso, than the soldiers vs, bugs part of the story, Then again, I'm horribly entertained by Sarah Palin's "political" career, and occasionally read snippets of Ann Coulter's books because her anger is funny.
If that doesn't sound like you, you might just find Heinlein's politics annoying,

But I was quite diverted, and I'll be reading more Heinlein soon,

: There's some contention on Goodreads about whether or not this is the case, but the way I interpreted the book is that you can only vote if you've joined the militaryalthough you might not have seen combat depending on the job you ended up with.
But you were WILLING to go into combat since the military assigned you your job and you didn't get to choose, So you must've been WILLING to be a soldier if you want to vote, So pthbthbthbth!.