Book Review: Starship Troopers
There was nothing wrong with this book. It was fine. Really. It’s just.
Well. (I didn’t want to get into this but here goes) It was kinda
boring.
Yeah. To me, this book felt like a war documentary - I think it was the
lack of exciting plot, more than anything - Heinlein was masterful in
skewing the world we know into a believable futuristic world, a
realistic world, full of cool ideas and concepts, but it was just a
little too dull.
Allow me to summarize: a youngster joins up with the “Mobile Infantry”,
is sent through boot camp, war breaks out against bug-like aliens,
youngster rises slowly through the ranks . . . and . . . that’s it. No
twist. No big finish.
Seriously, the first few chapters I was smiling to myself. “This is
gonna be great,” I thought. And it was, but again, the exciting plot
failed to show itself. So, my verdict: if you’re a hard-core Sci-fi
fan, you’ll be reading this anyway, but if not, don’t bother with this
one (though it is a quick read at around 208 pages).
My score: 3 out of 5