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Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Lloyd James
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Publisher's summary

Join the Army and See the Universe. That is the motto of The Third Space War, also known as The First Interstellar War, but most commonly as The Bug War. In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial best sellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe - and into battle with the Terrain Mobile Infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy.

©1959 by Robert A. Heinlein (P)1998 by Blackstone Audiobooks

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  • Hugo Award, 1960

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Enjoyed the story

I really enjoyed the full story. Always liked the movie, but this is great, different, but good.

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LoveThe story terrible performance

I love this story but the performance was stilted badly cut together. Timing is totally off.

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Recording is muffled at times

Seemed to switch microphones and background noise. Typically when certain names or topics were discussed.

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Great listen. Gripped me the entire time. Different than the movie but by no means worse

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Uh, at some point will there be trooping in your starship trooper book?

You’ll have more fun watching the movie, trust me. There’s so much lecture in this book, it gets really tedious at times. Some of the action is good, but there’s so few of those compared to the high school lectures, basic training lectures, OCS lectures, and officer lectures. If you were thinking of joining the Army, this might be a good book to read ahead of time as it’s fairly representative of that. But if you’re looking for a book that has a fun plot and cool science fiction action, find something else.

Also, the audio goes weird every chapter or so for about 10 seconds, like the narrator stepped away from the mic. Not bad, but a little annoying.

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Great Story, Annoying Narrator.

“Huh?” If I have to here this narrator ever say that again I will rip my hair out. They could have picked ANY narrator, and they decided to pick the most annoying and weaselly sounding person. Terrible choice for this kind of story.

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Glad I took another chance with Heinlein

I read stranger in a strange land, and I didn’t really like it, but I really liked this book.

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Far better than the movie.

This has been one of my books for many years, it is by far superior to the movie of the same name.

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the audio needs updating but the story is goo

The narrator does a fine job when he is recording in the booth, but the audio frequently splices in the narrator rereading sections of the dialogue in a much worse audio quality. It's very distracting when it happens and takes you out of the immersion.

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Fantastic

Much better than the more popular movie. The surprisingly in depth look at the philosophy of military service, and responsible citizenship, left me constantly engaged.

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