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   Message 26,967 of 28,343   
   Gary R. Schmidt to Your Name   
   Re: Just watched Starship Troopers...   
   18 Feb 15 14:03:49   
   
   From: grschmidt@acm.org   
      
   On 18/02/2015 7:31 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   [SMIP]   
   > You do relaise that Starship Troopers was a book first?? I haven't read   
   > it, but it's possible that the author wrote it that way and the   
   > director of the movie was simply following the original ... although,   
   > judging by Hollyweird's total lack of respect for any original (and its   
   > fans) when making a show / movie "based on" someone else's work, it's   
   > extremely unlikely the director followed the book properly.   
   >   
   It appears you have read about as much of the book as the spangled   
   drongo who directed the movie, possibly even less!   
      
   It has been reported that the clogger had actually seen a copy of the   
   book, but, of course, had not read it.   
      
   	Cheers,   
   		Gary	B-)   
      
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