----- Original Message ----- From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BRIN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:47 PM Subject: Re: Starship Trooper
> on 8/12/02 11:33 pm, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 5:13 PM > > Subject: Re: I Robot, NOT > > > > > >> Alberto (I think) wrote: > >>> _Starship Troopers_-the-movie is a Masterpiece!!! One of the best movies > >>> ever made!!! > >> > >> Can we assume you are kidding? Please? > >> > >> If not, can we assume you've never read the book and that's why you liked > >> that piece of film-making dreck? :-) > > > > Personally, I think the movie is superior to the book. The book takes > > itself seriously. Heinlein actually believed in the theme of Starship > > Trooper. He also believed in incest, yuck. I really like some of his > > works, like the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but I only enjoyed his later > > stuff and Starship Trooper with a clothespin. > > Later than what? _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ (1966) is the last good book Sorry, backwards. I meant that I didn't care much for his late stuff, which had incest as a good idea. I was going to write things one way and wrote it another, and inverted my point. :-) Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
