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Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Summary

5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination.

Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as 'Bugs.'

This is the story of trooper Johnny Rico, from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon. And his destiny is a war that will span the galaxy.

©2015 Robert A. Heinlein (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing
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Ok, I brought the book for 2 reasons.
RC Bray the legend
and I really enjoyed the film.
The book is quiet different from the movie, (aren't they always) but i found i enjoyed it and finished it in 3 days.
The pace of the book is quiet good, and i don't think I got bored in any part.
Well written and I would expect they could get another few books out of this. If so I look forward to listening to them in the future.

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Bray does it again!

I liked the film back in the 90s, and I like the book too, but this is my favourite. Been waiting a long time for this to release, and it was totally worth the wait.

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Puts the film to shame

Can’t tell you how long I’ve waited for this to come out with RC Bray. Needless to say it’s been worth it

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RC Bray was excellent

5 stars as usual for RC Bray. He did a masterful job with the source material. I have a love/hate relationship with classic Sci Fi and I need to consider when this was writtten but it was very dry and full of "I won't go into detail about the thing that would be infinitely more exciting thing than what I just wrote about at length".

I had struggled to get through this book in the past so the audiobook version was helpful in that regard but it felt like a manifesto with a couple of poorly detailed battles thrown in.

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