{"id":155,"date":"2006-09-25T17:12:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T17:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/25\/starship-troopers\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T16:10:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T00:10:42","slug":"starship-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/09\/25\/starship-troopers\/","title":{"rendered":"Starship Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-155\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Starship-Troopers-Robert-Heinlein\/dp\/0441783589\/sr=8-2\/qid=1159229044\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/104-0304831-5039155?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\" target=\"NewWindow\">Starship Troopers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Robert A. Heinlein<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>272 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Ace (May 15, 1987)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0441783589<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While telling someone about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=148\">Ender&#8217;s Game<\/a>, that person mentioned <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starship Troopers<\/span>, which I&#8217;d never read before. So, next time in a used bookstore here in Chicago I grabbed a copy.  Excellent choice!<\/p>\n<p>This book is really fun!  Its written as if it were by a Mobile Infantry (MI) trooper, a starship trooper.  It starts with a battle, then goes back in time to why Rico, the main character, joined the military, and continues through boot camp and his early service, up to when he has his first battle as an officer.  Its very lucid, well written and exciting; in this case, I even enjoyed the explanations because they were usually not about science but instead about sociology.<\/p>\n<p>This is a definite must-read!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-155\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 155);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-155\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-155\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Starship Troopers Author: Robert A. Heinlein Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Ace (May 15, 1987) ISBN: 0441783589 While telling someone about Ender&#8217;s Game, that person mentioned Starship Troopers, which I&#8217;d never read before. So, next time in a used bookstore here in Chicago I grabbed a copy. Excellent choice! This book is really fun! Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,382],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-2v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}