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[Govtcheez]

That was a great book.  It's been too long since i read it

[KnuckleBuckett]

Listening through it now...

Not bad.  Some odd holes...but I am not finished.  Maybe they fill in.

[Govtcheez]

I wouldn't call it great literature or anything, but it's very entertaining.  I read that he wrote it as some sort of a middle finger to Heinlein for Starship Troopers.

The King book isn't very good.  I'm going to be start Moneyball since I finally got it and baseball is starting.

[A Bit of Fruit]

It is kind of a middle finger to Heinlen but according to the author, that wasn't his intention. I love both books - 2 sides of the same coin, I say.

[KnuckleBuckett]

It is kind of a middle finger to Heinlen but according to the author, that wasn't his intention. I love both books - 2 sides of the same coin, I say.

+1

[salvelinus]

Heinlein didn't have a problem with it. There's a followup, Forever Peace, as well.

[Govtcheez]

I could be totally wrong about that - I'm pretty sure it was just some trivia question that came up and I very well could be remembering it incorrectly.

[salvelinus]

No, people did think maybe Haldeman meant it that way, but he denied it. He was a Vietnam vet. He acknowledged the influence, but was nervous about how Heinlein would take it. Heinlein told him it was a great story. Or so I've read.
One source from a random google: http://meander61.blogspot.com/2009/11/cannonball-read-202-forever-war-joe.html

[stealth]

Just finished The First Casualty by Ben Elton.  One of his better efforts in recent years (Chart Throb was dire and Blind Faith was a bad 1984 rip off).

Now it's onto Rendezvous with Rama by Athur C. Clarke.

[kermi3]

I'm reading Gang Leader for a Day

Finished this the other day.  Really good insight into urban poverty - how it is, how it works, and how people get stuck there.  9/10

Great book - did the audiobook a few months ago.  Loved it.

[KnuckleBuckett]

Good book.  Less sociology and more economics than I had hoped for, but a more than worthwhile audio book.

[Govtcheez]

I was kind of expecting that since I first heard about the guy through the book freakonomics but yeah I can kinda see what you mean since he was a sociology student.  I quite liked the economic stuff though.

[stealth]

Finished Rendezvous with Rama by Athur C. Clarke last weekend, and have also finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. 

Now reading The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett.

[Govtcheez]

  I'm going to be start Moneyball since I finally got it and baseball is starting.

Book is great and if you like baseball and haven't read it yet you're a loser and should fix that immediately.  Also there is going to be a movie!

[Govtcheez]

I'm just about done with Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories.  It's interesting to read about all these places in northern MI that I've actually been to.  I don't think I "get" Hemingway's writing style, though.