This early and apparently controversial science fiction novel bares little resemblance to the movie of the same name, which for me was very disappointing. The novel concentrate’s on Juan Rico’s journey through a tough boot camp and eventually to Klendathu and the bug wars, but the emphasis is on his training and we are shown very little action until the end.
Some important questions were asked and discussed about the futility of war. But, if you enjoyed the movie then I wouldn’t recommend the book.
As a novel I thought this was awful. Fairly interesting philosophy/politics in here though.. Liked those classroom discussions but I would definitely not want to meet Heinlein if his voice was that teachers..
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