I think the movie is featured on Amazon or Netflix currently. Still a shitty movie.
Mark Radabaugh Amplex 22690 Pemberville Rd Luckey, OH 43443 419-261-5996 > On Jul 24, 2020, at 6:00 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > > Why are people talking about Starship Troopers lately? I’d never heard of > it. I asked my son what it was about and he said bugs. Bad bugs? Yes. > Good movie? Stupid movie. > > Was it satire? There’s a fine line between satire and stupid. > > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 4:15 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > Heinlein hasn’t aged as well as I would have expected. Some great ideas but > the sex bits appealed a lot more to a teenage male than they do some 40 years > later. > > Asimov has held up very well - as good today as it was when it was written. > > For newer SciFi: > > I absolutely love Dan Simmons “Hyperion Cantos”. A bit slow to start but a > fantastic work. Don’t start it if you have other things you need to do. > > The “Imperial Radch” series by Ann Leckie is also one of my very favorites. > A bit hard to wrap your head around at first but once you figure it out it’s > excellent. > > If you want something that’s just a plain fun easy read - “Old Man’s War” by > John Scalzi is a concept straight out of Heinlein’s style, with a slightly > different twist on the sexuality. > > Mark > > > On Jul 24, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I liked Heinlein's Starship Troopers. > The idea that citizenship is not a birthright but something you earn through > service to society was interesting food for thought. It's not something we > could do realistically, but it was interesting to think about. On the other > hand, the idea that every soldier takes care of his own logistics is pretty > dumb though. Heinlein must have found it objectionable to have more people > in the rear echelon than you have actual fighters, but frankly modern wars > are won by logistics. Having more soldiers is irrelevant if they don't have > food, ammo, clothing, and fully working equipment; and expecting every Gomer > Pile to take part in every aspect of that would be dumb. > Puppet Masters wasn't bad either. It spawned the whole body snatching > subgenre in sci fi. > > On 7/24/2020 4:14 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > I get Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair confused. Didn’t really like either > of them. Been a while since I read any Bradbury or Heinlein. > > From: Ken Hohhof > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:01 PM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > I talked to an old college friend the other day, he had just read and was > recommending “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:54 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored > > Books are better. > I found the 1911 edition of the Boy Scouts Handbook enlightening. The views > expressed by the author(s) are a glimpse into a different time. It also > discusses survival and outdoor skills in broad terms. If you tried to build > a bow or a log cabin from the instructions in that book you'd have to do a > lot of your own figuring to fill in the blanks, but maybe that's the whole > point, and maybe that's the piece we're missing from society today. Like > maybe the journey of figuring out the precise techniques to carve the notches > into the logs is a better experience than emulating a you-tuber who shows you > every single step. > My other recent recreational book was the National Audubon Society Field > Guide to North American Trees. I lived 40 years on this earth only ever > learning a handful of major tree types (Oak, Maple, etc). I'm embarrassed to > say I was calling every needle leafed tree a "pine" for most of those years. > I finally decided to educate myself on the topic. > > On 7/24/2020 3:29 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > I am not much of a sports fan... I thought. But with no sports on I am > really missing them. I would at times catch part of a game to pass the time. > That option is gone for the moment and there nothing but crap on to watch... > Need a good book I guess. > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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