"Mission Earth" by Hubbard..

[opiate69]

Any fans here?

[Caution]

1. Not really, it's a pretty transparent Scientology propganda

piece. I made it through about 6 or 7 of them before i just chucked it away as total crap. If you do some reading on Hubbard you'll ee that much of the stuff in it is lifted from scientology nonsense. Additionally it is pretty well known that hubbard wrote at most the first volume or two and the rest was written by other scientologists as he had died. Hubbard was an egomaniacal bastard but he had (extremely limited) writing ability. The writing in these things goes way down hill after volume 2.

[blindpig]

2. there is a German phrase

that translates as"it does not permit itself to be read". Awful. Made me want to gouge my eyes out.

[CrispyQ]

3. I liked the first one.

I forced myself through the second one & couldn't bring myself to read any others.

However, I liked "Battlefield Earth" the book, not the movie.

[opiate69]

4. Interesting responses..

I read them all about 10 years ago, when I had no idea what Hubbard was all about, as it were. I'm re-reading them now (just finished volume 8), and there is a lot of heavy-handed stuff in there, but I think it's still a pretty entertaining adventure.

[DS1]

5. I read it almost all the way through the saga, I moved and it

took a long time for the set to show up. I didn't know about Scientology, or anything else about Hubbard back then, I just enjoyed the satirical view of governments, aka "The Apparatus" I believe.