Starship Troopers
Excellent book, so much better than the movie. One of these days I'm going to have to pick up more Heinlein.
I didn't like it. I finished it and read all the way through, damnit, but I didn't like it. That's probably because I went into it expecting a lot more action and fighting -- more along the lines of the movie but without the suck -- and not political theory. Though, if I read it now I'd probably enjoy it. I had the same problem with 1984 -- except I hated that book so much I actually paid someone to borrow it and never bring it back. But at least I finished that one too.
What was wrong with Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Maybe it was the fact that I was in grammar school when I read it, but I didn't find it very enthralling. It just didn't 'grab' me, so to speak. I can appreciate the historical significance of the book, and the effect it had on popular culture, but I didn't find it to be a very satisfying read.
That said, I just finished the "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" short story collection by Stephen King. I never thought I'd ever see a Sherlock Holmes story done by King, but it was quite good, as were most of the others. Apparently they're making "Dolan's Cadillac" into a movie, hence the new edition of the collection.
I've found some King novels that I felt were fairly lame ("Cell" is at the top of that particular list, next to "From a Buick 8" and "Dreamcatcher"), but most are quite good, and some are truly epic ("It", "Pet Sematary", "Needful Things", "Misery" and "The Stand" come to mind.)