Starship troopers

362 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1998 by G.K. Hall.

ISBN:
978-0-7838-0118-6
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With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.

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Personalmente non ho mai amato la massima "La letteratura serve ad ampliare i propri orizzonti", visto che storicamente l'arte "allineata" ha lasciato il segno ben più di quella "antagonista", le grandi accademie che stabiliscono i canoni sono naturalmente conservatrici (se non reazionarie) e, negli ultimi tempi, ho notato una sgradevole tendenza di progressismo puramente performativo che dà contro alle opere d'arte arcaiche in quanto "retrograde", così da farsi belli senza versare una goccia di sudore. Ebbene, Starship Troopers potrebbe essere la prima volta in vita mia che un'opera d'arte mi ha davvero posto in dialettica con una posizione/forma mentis/tradizione culturale (chiamatela come vi pare) in cui non mi riconosco e mi ha portato, pertanto, a costruire un dibattito asincrono con il romanziere – ed è un'esperienza spettacolare. Perché sì, il capolavoro di Heinlein è esattamente ciò che sembra: un romanzo di …

Review of 'Starship Troopers' on 'Storygraph'

This book started out so well, and then nosedived. Twenty or thirty pages in, I was sure this was getting five stars. Dean McLaughlin stated it best when he called it "a book-length recruiting poster." Whether or not you agree with Heinlein's military sentiments, he could have gotten them across without wasting an awesome premise. I guess maybe if I'd been aware of this, I wouldn't have been so disappointed. This sort of didacticism is fine, provided you weren't expecting a great story to begin with. Some people don't like how little Rico's character is fleshed out, but my problem is really the entire lack of world-building. The bugs, for instance, are about as ambiguous as he could get away with. I got the impression that the only reason they're not human is so he didn't have to be empathetic towards them. When the bugs are occasionally discussed in depth, …

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