Starship Troopers

Meh.

This is one of the few books where as it turns out, the movie was better. There's some action, and you get a bit of hearing about the neat equipment that gets to be used, but that's really it. The rest of the book is more the internal journey of someone who joined the military because his buddy and the hot girl from his school were joining, to getting through basic, and then deciding to make a career of it during the bug war.

One thing I did notice was as soon as Rico got over his hump, from then on out the government and military could do no wrong. In fact, that's what it seemed the system was set up to be, that if you wanted a right such as voting, you would need to buy into complete and utter loyalty to the government no matter what. The attitudes from the higher-ups to both soldiers and even to civilians seems to be “You're too stupid to understand this so just let us handle all the big thinking for you, okay?” That's where the book loses me, making the assumption that anyone not at a certain level in the system is just stupid.

I don't think I'll be reading this one again anytime soon.