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Re: Event Horizon [message #206889 is a reply to message #206630]

Thu, 06 July 2006 21:22

NukeIt15
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Karma:

Colonel

For the sorry individuals who haven't read the book, a few quick pointers:
-Mobile Infantry troops wear power armor with jump-jets.
-Mobile Infantry deploy from orbit using drop pods.
-The Rodger Young does not get destroyed.
-Johnny's dad does not die, he enlists and fights after his wife is killed. He is still alive at the end, and has a conversation with his son in the final scene.
-Dizzy is a man. Johnny and Dizzy never hook up.
-The Bugs have technology. Ships and weapons and such... not just claws and jaws and plasma farts.
-Johnny does not enlist because he wanted to impress Carmen. They weren't nearly that close. She is in the book, and she is the helmsman of the Rodger Young, but she is hardly a main character. He enlists because he really does want to be a citizen, and feels it is his responsibility to serve to earn that status.

There's a lot more, but those are the ones I remember from the last time I read the book. This thread makes me want to go dig it out and read it again. Smile

Starship Troopers is required reading at every major military academy in the United States. Poor Robert A. must be rolling over in his grave. Such amazing things could be done with that book, and instead they choose to make it a guts'n'gore fest.

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine

Remember, kids: illiteracy is cool. If you took the time to read this, you are clearly a loser who will never get laid. You've been warned.

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		Event Horizon By: Berkut on Wed, 05 July 2006 09:38
		Re: Event Horizon By: NukeIt15 on Wed, 05 July 2006 11:38
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Wed, 05 July 2006 12:14
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Wed, 05 July 2006 14:27
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Wed, 05 July 2006 17:34
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Wed, 05 July 2006 19:16
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Wed, 05 July 2006 19:21
		Re: Event Horizon By: NukeIt15 on Wed, 05 July 2006 19:41
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Thu, 06 July 2006 08:31
		Re: Event Horizon By: Jecht on Mon, 10 July 2006 10:13
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Mon, 10 July 2006 11:23
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Wed, 05 July 2006 21:01
		Re: Event Horizon By: Hydra on Wed, 05 July 2006 23:05
		Re: Event Horizon By: JohnDoe on Thu, 06 July 2006 01:31
		Re: Event Horizon By: cheesesoda on Thu, 06 July 2006 08:45
		Re: Event Horizon By: DarkDemin on Wed, 05 July 2006 22:08
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Wed, 05 July 2006 23:07
		Re: Event Horizon By: mrpirate on Thu, 06 July 2006 08:18
		Re: Event Horizon By: NukeIt15 on Thu, 06 July 2006 10:09
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Thu, 06 July 2006 20:26
		Re: Event Horizon By: JohnDoe on Thu, 06 July 2006 12:38
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Thu, 06 July 2006 13:23
		Re: Event Horizon By: NukeIt15 on Thu, 06 July 2006 21:22
		Re: Event Horizon By: JohnDoe on Fri, 07 July 2006 04:47
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Fri, 07 July 2006 12:20
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Sat, 08 July 2006 11:18
		Re: Event Horizon By: JohnDoe on Sat, 08 July 2006 14:41
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Sat, 08 July 2006 15:45
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Sun, 09 July 2006 14:08
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Sun, 09 July 2006 20:23
		Re: Event Horizon By: JohnDoe on Mon, 10 July 2006 01:34
		Re: Event Horizon By: cheesesoda on Mon, 10 July 2006 10:07
		Re: Event Horizon By: NukeIt15 on Sun, 09 July 2006 10:02
		Re: Event Horizon By: JohnDoe on Sun, 09 July 2006 14:41
		Re: Event Horizon By: Sniper_De7 on Sun, 09 July 2006 19:56
		Re: Event Horizon By: mrpirate on Sun, 09 July 2006 23:15
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Mon, 10 July 2006 00:54
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Mon, 10 July 2006 07:25
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Mon, 10 July 2006 10:07
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Tue, 11 July 2006 06:36
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Tue, 11 July 2006 09:43
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Tue, 11 July 2006 15:43
		Re: Event Horizon By: PlastoJoe on Tue, 11 July 2006 22:38
		Re: Event Horizon By: icedog90 on Tue, 11 July 2006 23:42
		Re: Event Horizon By: IronWarrior on Wed, 12 July 2006 04:38
		Re: Event Horizon By: DarkDemin on Wed, 12 July 2006 00:53
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Wed, 12 July 2006 20:24
		Re: Event Horizon By: icedog90 on Wed, 12 July 2006 21:02
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Wed, 12 July 2006 22:49
		Re: Event Horizon By: icedog90 on Thu, 13 July 2006 00:24
		Re: Event Horizon By: z310 on Thu, 13 July 2006 19:04
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Thu, 13 July 2006 20:12
		Re: Event Horizon By: icedog90 on Thu, 13 July 2006 20:24
		Re: Event Horizon By: Berkut on Thu, 13 July 2006 20:50

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