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Space marines are always a bit silly, but I'm a sucker for silliness so I didn't mind. The main problem was that the main character was a bit of a Marty Stu (male equivalent to Mary Sue) and it was hard to connect with him or, frankly, any of the characters in the book. Still, the world-building is interesting and the premise is creative. I'd classify it as an enjoyable read that doesn't quite live up to its potential. I have the sequel in my queue and hopefully it will be better.
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the humor in the beginning was getting old (ha ha ha), but by the end of the book he quite thoroughly had me. Wondering if I was supposed to have previously read Heinlein's Starship Troopers for the purposes of more thorough philosophical contemplation.
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This was a decent book, worth the read. Obviously fashioned after Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (why do you think I read this book?), it was admittedly quite inferior, but I never would expect anything to measure up to Heinlein's masterpiece. Scalzi's novel was fairly unique in a few ways, but did have a heavy touch of Blade Runner towards the end. The first 75 pages or so were somewhat dull to me, mediocre character development that mattered little and did not draw me in. The random hops
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