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Maybe I'll give that a go out of curiousity.

Well, the book is an all-out glorification of macho militarism. You might want to follow it up with Haldeman's "Forever War" as an antidote. Heinlein wrote some interesting stuff, but a fair number of his books are just nasty, not quite tipping into fascism but really dodgy and unpleasant.

He wrote much worse things than Starship Troopers, though. I hesitate to name them in case some poor soul reads one and discovers that there just isn't enough mind bleach in the world.