# The Forever War by Joe Haldeman ebook on sale for $1.99
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 3, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777 "2016-05-03T14:36:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/1 "2016-05-03T14:36:37Z")
A great sf novel, IMHO.
> **[Free & Discount Ebooks, Books, and Novels - BookBub](https://www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals?categories=bestsellers&exp=173423&redir_state=expired)**
>
> Get free and bargain bestsellers for Kindle, Nook, and more. Sign up for free today, and start reading instantly!
Looks like it’s the same price on all platforms, Amazon, Apple, Google, B&N, Kobo
---
### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/2 "2016-05-03T15:22:36Z")
I highly recommend this book.
---
### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/3 "2016-05-03T15:31:01Z")
Great book, it’s on my bookshelf.
---
### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/4 "2016-05-03T15:33:16Z")
A decent book, but I didn’t think it was worthy of the Hugo or the Nebula. It’s full of amateurish mistakes, and things that a professional writer should have done better.
---
### Author:  [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/5 "2016-05-03T15:47:00Z")
> [@Revtim](#):
>
> A great sf novel, IMHO.
>
> [https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman?email=other\_retailers&ebook\_deal](https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman?email=other_retailers&ebook_deal)
>
> Looks like it’s the same price on all platforms, Amazon, Apple, Google, B&N, Kobo
Thanks! I’ve been meaning to read this book [del]forever[/del] for a long time. 😃
Just ordered it for my Kindle.
---
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/6 "2016-05-03T15:47:51Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
>
> A decent book, but I didn’t think it was worthy of the Hugo or the Nebula. It’s full of amateurish mistakes, and things that a professional writer should have done better.
I recall fighting in space with sort of chain saws to rip the other guy’s suit open, and time dilation, if that is the correct term, from traveling at high velocities in space.
---
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/7 "2016-05-03T15:56:05Z")
And thanks, Revtim. Do you get a kickback on the $1.99? 🙂
---
### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/8 "2016-05-03T15:59:25Z")
Thanks. Bought.
---
### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/9 "2016-05-03T16:03:20Z")
Didn’t we have a thread about this book not too long ago?
[Ah yes, here it is.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753287)
---
### Author:  [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/10 "2016-05-03T16:03:27Z")
Thanks, it’s been on my re-read list for a while. It’s a great book.
---
### Author:  [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/11 "2016-05-03T18:22:40Z")
The first time I read this book, it made sense to me, but I felt like I was a little too well-educated to be reading such material.
When I went to read it a second time, though, the language somehow seemed hard to follow, although the book was clearly written in English. Also, it seemed a little more … “queer” to me than it had the first time.
Much, much later I re-read it yet again. The third time through, I felt completely out of place - it damn near killed me! By the time I was finished, all I wanted was to go some place far away where I felt like I could be among my own kind.
---
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/12 "2016-05-05T19:57:52Z")
Thanks again, Revtim. Without pouring through the other thread, I think there was a different ending in the edition I read several years ago.
[spoiler]
Instead of returning to a world populated by clones, a third race stopped the war.
[spoiler/]
Am I confusing another book?
_Forever Free_ is not on Ebay, dammit!
---
### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/13 "2016-05-05T20:28:18Z")
Thank you for the head’s up!
---
### Author:  [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/14 "2016-05-05T20:32:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
>
> Thanks again, Revtim. Without pouring through the other thread, I think there was a different ending in the edition I read several years ago.
>
> Instead of returning to a world populated by clones, a third race stopped the war.
>
> Am I confusing another book?
>
> _Forever Free_ is not on Ebay, dammit!
_Forever Free_ has the “third race” ending, _Forever War_ has the “clone” ending. Given that they are sequels to each other it would be easy to confuse.
---
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/15 "2016-05-06T00:39:11Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#):
>
> _Forever Free_ has the “third race” ending, _Forever War_ has the “clone” ending. Given that they are sequels to each other it would be easy to confuse.
Thanks.
He must have sorted different editions out with different titles.
He gets the girl in the end of both!
---
### Author:  [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/16 "2016-05-06T13:35:33Z")
It’s been several years since I read _The Forever War_, but I had a paperback that I read at home and then an e-book that I read during lunch at work. I remember they were quite different. The e-book had a lot more filler in the middle. So seems to me there are a couple versions of the book.
---
### Author:  [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/17 "2016-05-06T15:19:46Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
>
> Thanks.
> He must have sorted different editions out with different titles.
>
> He gets the girl in the end of both!
Forever Free is very much not the same book at The Forever War. One is a sequel to the other. Although as **Barkis** points out, there may be different editions anyway.
---
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/18 "2016-05-06T17:49:52Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#):
>
> Forever Free is very much not the same book at The Forever War. One is a sequel to the other. Although as **Barkis** points out, there may be different editions anyway.
What does it deal with?
---
### Author:  [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/19 "2016-05-06T18:11:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
>
> A decent book, but I didn’t think it was worthy of the Hugo or the Nebula. It’s full of amateurish mistakes, and things that a professional writer should have done better.
I’d had this on my list for years and finally read it last week. Perhaps it was groundbreaking in some concept back in the day, but I can’t imagine on what front. The only intriguing aspect was the concept of warriors returning decades or centuries after the war had ended. Other than that, it completely lacked engagement with me as well- and there were many directions it could have gone… and didn’t.
---
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777/20 "2016-05-06T18:24:53Z")
I see parallels to the Vietnam war now that I did not see in the 1970s.
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-forever-war-by-joe-haldeman-ebook-on-sale-for-1-99/753777.md?page=2)