The Puppet Masters Audiobook

" Vintage Heinlein. "

" Awkwardly written and a bit unbelievable at points.. Operation Sun Tan (weird!). I just saw the movie with Donald Sutherland playing the old man. It was a pretty good rendition...glad they left out some of the sillier aspects of the book. "

" Typical Heinlein fodder. I liked it, but his books are kinda always about a guy with a gun shootin' up the enemy and beating the arrogant scientists and smug pen-pushers and getting the girl (who is always just as tough, muscular and no-nonsense as him, until they get married five minutes after meeting, at which point she becomes a giggling squealing bunny who says "Yes dear" a lot). Not bad. "

" Interesting premise, but difficult to stay engaged beyond the first hundred pages. Heinlein escalates the plot too early, and then doesn't give enough ebb and flow; the war simply keeps dragging on with little progress. The interactions between the two lead protagonists are entertaining, but about halfway through the book the female becomes painfully two-dimensional. "

" I did an oral report on this in 8th grade. The teacher laughed at the complicated plot, and my attempts to summarize it! "

" One of my favourite Heinleins, although maybe not a 'classic'. "

" Kill slugs wherever they may be "

" Well, this book have something that we have to fear but we don't. Description of captured mind does't sound something unusual it feels more like a hard medical procedure, not more. And emotions of heroes kind of a unnatural. They look like puppets. "

" Sci Fi: slug-like monsters take over human bodies and want to run the world. Fun. "

" Read as eBook. Interesting "alien invasion" concept; good main characters (Sam, Mary, Old Man). "

" Everyday xenophobia and fear of foreign invasion is writ large in this novel where aliens attached themselves to humans and take control of their minds. More right wing fodder from Heinlein. "

" This novel is a pure pulp delight. At this point we have seen so many "body snatcher" stories that it is hard to get excited about them, but Heinlein's novel predates them all. The book is repeatedly ingenious and fun, with twists you don't see coming. "

" Ignore the movie. "

" This book is incredibly tight. Three, four pages, and he's got you in the middle of things, and it doesn't slow down. Really good work. Nice iconic alien, too. "

" An excellent invasion novel with a paranoid subtext connected to the Cold War. Recommended. "

" I liked it in a the way I love shitty old B-movies. "It's so corny you gotta love it". Entertaining and worth picking up in my opinion. "

" I read this book as a teenager - it was so creepy but so addictive - I just couldn't wait to find out how it ended. "

" Heinlein desatado. Una sociedad futurista descrita sólo a pinceladas; paranoia rampante; el individuo por sobre el estado y las instituciones; violencia y acción sin pausa. Lo mejor de Heinlein, en la lucha de los humanos contra el enemigo invisible. Un clásico. "

" One of the most plagiarized works of the 20th Century is oddly not one of Heinlein's better novels. "

" Might be my favorite Heinlein novel I've read. Probably because it never questioned the sexual morality currently set in stone by society. "

" Don't know. Every few years or so I make the attempt to get into sci-fi--with similar results. Heinlein is good at speculation and world building and all, but I just can't seem to muster any interest in the story's outcome or any degree of concern over the characters' fortunes. "

" As adventurous a romp can be when it's thinly disguised anti-communist propaganda. Very fun. "

" classic book, fast action but the romantic plot seemes forced. the idea of everyone taking tempus pills to slow the perception of time deserves its own book. "