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« Reply #135 on: January 15, 2009, 12:08:59 AM »
Quote from: Chard on January 15, 2009, 12:04:01 AM
Sounds hilarious!

And the amusing part is that it's actually an entertaining read, if you kind of gloss over the inherent fascist tone of it. 
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« Reply #136 on: January 15, 2009, 01:50:41 AM »
Quote from: capt qitn on January 14, 2009, 04:44:54 PM
awww.. RIP Ricardo Montalban.

FUCK!!!

i was just thinking of him last week, hoping he had some sort of comeback up his sleeve. at least a chrysler commercial or something.

 
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« Reply #137 on: January 15, 2009, 02:58:43 AM »
Quote from: The Joke Murderer on January 15, 2009, 12:08:59 AM
Quote from: Chard on January 15, 2009, 12:04:01 AM
Sounds hilarious!

And the amusing part is that it's actually an entertaining read, if you kind of gloss over the inherent fascist tone of it.  

I never read the book, but do I understand that the satirical nature of the film was Verhoeven's doing and not Heinlein's intention?

I recall Verhoeven saying that he simply used the book to satirize American foreign policy, but I was not aware that the book was serious.
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« Reply #138 on: January 15, 2009, 09:21:34 AM »
So what are the german humans like in the book? Super-nazis?
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« Reply #139 on: January 15, 2009, 10:00:50 AM »
anybody ever have to go to court in the afternoon?

cause I do.
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« Reply #140 on: January 15, 2009, 10:24:29 AM »
Quote from: matthew on January 15, 2009, 02:58:43 AM
Quote from: The Joke Murderer on January 15, 2009, 12:08:59 AM
Quote from: Chard on January 15, 2009, 12:04:01 AM
Sounds hilarious!

And the amusing part is that it's actually an entertaining read, if you kind of gloss over the inherent fascist tone of it.  

I never read the book, but do I understand that the satirical nature of the film was Verhoeven's doing and not Heinlein's intention?

I recall Verhoeven saying that he simply used the book to satirize American foreign policy, but I was not aware that the book was serious.

The book sounds dead serious.  And, if you know a bit about Heinlein, the probability that the book was satire is pretty much null.

Heinlein was a wingnut, but, to his credit, I don't think his wingnutery was tainted with racism or sexism.  He was more one of those survival-of-the-fittest social darwinist crackpots.  He later became an überlibertarian.   
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« Reply #141 on: January 15, 2009, 10:32:21 AM »
Quote from: Tripp on January 15, 2009, 09:21:34 AM
So what are the german humans like in the book? Super-nazis?

They're regular humans.  Here, there's an entire wikipedia page dedicated to it that probably covers the subject more impartially than I could ever manage.  Besides, I'm lazy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers
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« Reply #142 on: January 15, 2009, 10:34:34 AM »
I find it funny that someone would go to the trouble of writing such a big page on that book: it's just a trashy sci-fi novel, about as deep as a baby's bath tub...
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« Reply #143 on: January 15, 2009, 10:36:01 AM »
Quote from: Tripp on January 15, 2009, 10:00:50 AM
anybody ever have to go to court in the afternoon?

cause I do.

Why?  What's up?  You finally murdered some dumbya-lovin' redneck repug? 
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« Reply #144 on: January 15, 2009, 10:48:49 AM »
nothing so glamorous.  I got a ticket for having expired tags. Though at the time I HAD passed inspection, i just hadn't gotten the tags yet. BUT the bitch gave me a ticket anyway.  So now I have to drive downtown, park several blocks away from the station, walk in the cold, stand in a long-ass line for an hour and a half so I can show that I did get my tags and everything gets dismissed.

THANKS BITCH-COP!!
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« Reply #145 on: January 15, 2009, 10:51:11 AM »
If you're in for futuristic war stories, I highly recommend Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.  Still a bit on the militaristic side, but better written and with more interesting ideas, than Starship Troopers.  
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« Reply #146 on: January 15, 2009, 10:52:03 AM »
I know many people that are reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road right now.. Apparently it's really depressing.
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« Reply #147 on: January 15, 2009, 10:56:40 AM »
Quote from: Tripp on January 15, 2009, 10:48:49 AM
nothing so glamorous.  I got a ticket for having expired tags. Though at the time I HAD passed inspection, i just hadn't gotten the tags yet. BUT the bitch gave me a ticket anyway.  So now I have to drive downtown, park several blocks away from the station, walk in the cold, stand in a long-ass line for an hour and a half so I can show that I did get my tags and everything gets dismissed.

THANKS BITCH-COP!!

Know what, here in progressive Quebec, we don't have that.  Tennessee has a car inspection system in place (is that state or federal?), Quebec doesn't.  And we totally should have it!  You wouldn't believe the kind of jellopies are allowed on the road up here.  
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« Reply #148 on: January 15, 2009, 11:00:59 AM »
Quote from: Tripp on January 15, 2009, 10:52:03 AM
I know many people that are reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road right now.. Apparently it's really depressing.


It is. But I really enjoyed it --  a simple tale, stunningly told. I remember BF talked about it a lot (before it was an Oprah pick).

And HAPPY BELATED B-DAY, BRAINFIBER. Smiley




(p.s. Why are we still on this topic?)
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« Reply #149 on: January 15, 2009, 11:17:42 AM »
pfft.  let's get the fuck outta here..
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