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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's more like the opposite of the book.

The movie basically takes every theme, concept, and moral of the book and sort of argues the exact counter opposite of it via hyper-excessive satire. It's basically like Verhoeven read the book, and then hated it so much he made the movie solely to shit on the book and everyone who actually liked it. It's kind of like the Colbert Report of its era.

And then half the people who watched the movie completely missed the satire and took it at face value, which sort of took it all the way back around again.

Yeah, honestly i'm lucky I even remember reading it anymore, I do remember vaguely he was jumping around on asteroids all by himself, and I think he was pretty much alone/solo for most of the book. I'm surprised I even remember that with my memory these days.

Glad to see others that have read it though!!:)

I know there was edgar rice burroughs back then, I think Piers Anthony had started his Xanth books as well, there was the Melnaborne books by moorcok, I think Jack Chalker had done Midnight at the well of souls, the conan books were out already, asimov also had stuff as well. By the early 80's things had exploded, you had so many series by then I was in heaven and pretty much never ran out of books again (I read a book a day till I got married at 27). The 70's though were doubly hard, as I was young and not working yet (started around 9 in 4th grade (Which I skipped lol, just didn't go to school for a year cause I found it boring, and worked instead). Before that I was completely reliant on libraries though, which were very hit or miss for sci-fi/fantasy books.

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