Number One!

[athelind]

1. Number one comfort food. Peanut butter and brown sugar sandwich. Would you like carbs with that, sir?
2. Number one person you can turn to in times of trouble. quelonzia!!
3. Number one book you read over and over. I don't re-read stuff as much as I used to, but... Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein.
4. Number one movie you can watch over and over. Equilibrium.
5. Number one reason you are doing this meme. Because it was fast and easy.

Comments

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

OMG you bastard I love peanut butter and brown sugar sandwiches and I haven't had one since I was like 9.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Brown sugar is REALLY CHEAP.

I assume you already have peanut butter, bread, and margarine.

What's stopping you?

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

nix on the peanut butter...white bread, butter and white sugar.

tooth disaster area

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just NASTY.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

My Mum adores it and so did I when I was a boy....

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

My father-in-law does that whenever he thinks his wife isn't paying attention. I'm interested enough that I might someday decide to try it - but I haven't yet.

On the same note, though - cinnamon mixed with brown sugar on white bread toast. Yum.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Cinnamon in most places yum....esp. rice pudding...

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Also they should be toasted.

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

So I'm not the only one that Re-reads Starship troopers? ^^ I must go through that book monthly if not more.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

'Bout every two years for me.

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

'tis a very nice read. I'm also prone to reading Ringworld a lot.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

I'm curious why you like Starship Troopers that much?

Yes, I've read and re-read the book. Liked it alot, and figured someone with military experience would be able to grok it much better then I ever could.

-- ArchTeryx

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Actually, that book is in large measure why I joined the military. Heinlein's message about duty and service had a great impact on me, and I felt the need to actively participate in the Social Contract -- to "earn my vote".

It was a close call, though, especially since I don't re-read books that often anymore. Other contenders for "Number One Re-Read Books" range from Gordon R. Dickson's The Dragon and the George to S.I. Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action -- and four years ago, Hayakawa probably would have made it.

In recent years, though, circumstances have sent me back to ST again and again. An entire Administration of people who weaseled out of any service obligation, headed by someone that I personally consider a deserter, has been sending servicemen off to in a criminal invasion, solely to line their own pockets and preserve their own power, throwing lives away like they were green plastic army men you could buy by the bucket.

I find going back to Heinlein's tale of personal responsibility for the group, of precise, surgical applications of force, and of a society where someone simply cannot send people off to die without having placed themselves in a similar position to be cathartic.