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Originally posted by tinkthank:
The beauty of Starship Troopers was that it was camp; it made Heinlein into something enjoyable.

Only in the same sense that "Boxing Helena" made heavy weight boxing enjoyable - the movie "Starship Troopers" had nothing but superficial similarities with the book, so it can't really be said to have "made it enjoyable"

Both Heinlein and actually to a stronger degree Asimov are in my opinion miserable writers; the entire "robot" series was puerile and lackluster.

True in a sense - both Heinlein and Asimov, and many other science fiction writers of the time, were idea-writers, who used their stories as a vehicle to present ideas. If you don't find their ideas interesting, their writing and stories aren't good enough in themselves to be worth reading.