Mission Earth Black Genesis

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Summary: The Best Remedy from Boredom
Review: A marvellous creation! Full of action and totally surprising. The most interesting thing I've ever read. It's also very witty: I couldn't stop laughing. You must definitely read it.

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Summary: Is this Mastery?-- I think SO!
Review: After being a horror fan for years, I took upon myself the task of reading this piece of work by L. Ron Hubbard. After finally being able to set down volume 10, I decided that it was in fact THE greatest set of books that I have ever read. The satire involved, the characters that you love and hate, Heller, Krak, Gris, Bury, Epstein, Vantagio, Babe and even Mr. Calico... some of the most brilliant writing that I have EVER seen. Sad there was no movie made after this, instead of Battlefield Earth

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Summary: Is this Mastery?-- I think SO!
Review: After being a horror fan for years, I took upon myself the task of reading this piece of work by L. Ron Hubbard. After finally being able to set down volume 10, I decided that it was in fact THE greatest set of books that I have ever read. The satire involved, the characters that you love and hate, Heller, Krak, Gris, Bury, Epstein, Vantagio, Babe and even Mr. Calico... some of the most brilliant writing that I have EVER seen. Sad there was no movie made after this, instead of Battlefield Earth

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Summary: Its no Battlefield Earth
Review: After reading Hubbard's masterful work Battlefield Earth, I made the wrong decision and tackled the decology. The characters in this series are predictable and boring. It not only takes a long time to read this series, it costs a lot of money. I think Hubbard set aside Scientology and focused on Capitalism for this one. Trust me, you will be better off not having read this jibberish.

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Summary: Fast, fun, easy.
Review: Hubbard's scientific imaginings are more fantastic than Clarke's, and better integrated into his stories. Cliffhanger after cliffhanger. The pace is so fast, boredom won't even come into your zip code.

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Summary: He's too experienced to write this bad . . .
Review: I read the entire dekalogy and don't really know why. I suppose it was my need to finish what I start. In the hands of another writer, this story could have been salvaged. But the manner in which Hubbard wrote it was a juvenile attempt at sci-fi. The background to his story was interesting, if not shallow and not totally original. But what left the bad taste in my mouth wa the blatant error that Hubbard made in his writing. His "good" guys always beat the "bad" guys. Yes, the lines were drawn that clearly. There were the generic heroes and villians, complete with superficial motives and actions. The ease with which any story potholes were glossed over was outrageous. Not to mention the disgusting spectrum of sexual perversities that Hubbard took upon himself to address, sadly, with a infantile idiocy. Perhaps it was because I was not of his generation, but I can't see how this series can ever be evaluated as anything more than the seediest pulp of the science fiction genre.

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Summary: Not for everybody, but a satire of human affairs.
Review: The mission earth series is not for every sci-fi reader. The reader expecting intricately developed characters and a convoluted conflict with characters in shades of gray will be disappointed. The reader looking for a upbeat satire with a lot of wit and outrageous situations will enjoy Hubbard's lengthy work immensly. His type of upbeat humor and choice of narrator will keep this reader enthralled. After the first two books, one begins to feel sorry for Soltan Gris, and rightly so. Every plan of his is foiled by the charasmatic Jettero Heller. At times it is difficult to tell who to root for.

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Summary: Underrated
Review: This book may in fact be his most underrated literary attempts yet. While he hacks his way through this story you need to remember that this is in fact SCI-FI and not all things are required to be accurate to technology. The multiple threads of the plot will keep you going for hours on end until your whole way of thinking falls into the storyline.

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Summary: I found it highly entertaining.
Review: While i'm sure some wont understand hubbards style, I found it to be the epitome of sarcasim. What he has done both in the book and in the dekology itself is take us as a human being and shown us all of our fallicies.I feel I have been lucky to have had the opportunity to read this series twice without interuption and am looking foward to a third reading as soon as my order arrives. This series certainly deserves the 5 star rating I have given it and i'm sure that anyone else who enjoys the self depreciational wit of the human race will feel the same. P.S. Read battlefield earth. That's a six star book if i've ever read one.