The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) in The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Sep 04, 2010 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it it was amazing

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I loved this against expectations. The blurbs spurt encomiums such as "best science fiction novel ever." One by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz calls it "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam." Such praise made me start the novel in a rather cynical "show me" mood. Given it's reputation as an "anti-war" novel I also feared it might be bitter, angry polemic or depressing.

That couldn't be farther from the case. I found the first person narrator and protagonist, William Mande ...more

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Nov 18, 2008 Jamie rated it it was amazing

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What the hell was I thinking letting this book sit in my to be read pile for 4 years!! This excellent novel by Haldeman needs to be read. Originally released in the 1970's this is the author's preferred version with material that had been edited out reincluded back in. Haldeman's incisive look at the machinery of war and political manuverings to make an industry are eerily prescient of the situation the world is in now. The changes in society based on its dependance upon a war time economy and t ...more

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Dec 15, 2017 Lianna rated it liked it

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My thoughts reading this book

Part 1 - is this Starship Troopers?
Part 2 - why are we going back to Earth? Oh right, Vietnam War allegory.
Part 3 - now I have future shock too

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Nov 04, 2010 Allan Fisher rated it really liked it

9 in reality...
A classic of sci-fi, which, really hits when he returns home after hundreds of years - scary.
For such a short novel, Haldeman, sure got alot in.

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