That's actually hilarious.

I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring … It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book

-Verhoeven, on the book

I read it when I was much younger (and more blind to the political themes), but it wasn't terribly interesting to me either. So much of it was dry and needless to my memory