Re: Starship Troopers

Edward Lipsett wrote:
> 
> Well, without all the combat stuff, he could have summed up his views
on
> being a citizen in a dynamite short story... That may  be the
philosophical
> core of the book, but face it - it doesn't account for much %wise.

[...]
You gotta be kidding... all those indoctrination sessions that
Rico had to attend, as a device to allow the author to lecture the
reader directly about the book's message in the shrillest voice
possible? They were dreadful.

I hope the cartoon didn't feature them.

-- 
David Brewer

"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Theory of Scientific 
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of 
facts." - P.K.Dick (from VALIS)