Battlefield Earth

Rating:
Summary: Disengage your brain
Review: Old fashioned, pulpy fiction. A throw back to the days of "gee-wiz" SF. It ain't deep, but it's a lot of fun.

Rating:
Summary: Once won't be enough
Review: This is the kind of book that bears repeated reading. Even though it is huge I've read it 3 or 4 times and found it fascinating each time I want to read it again to get even more out of it. I love the tongue-in-cheek viewpoint Mr. Hubbard injects into the story. I enjoy the way the characters behave much as all people do, motivated by greed, jealousy and various other petty things. Of course, Jonnie is not motivated by any of those base things - but there has to be a hero! And what a hero. I especially like Robert the Fox. I don't think Sean Connery is too old for the part...A great ride and worth taking several times. You won't be disappointed.

Rating:
Summary: So long ..... so long ...... SO LOOOOOONG
Review: This was one of the first ever sci-fi books I ever read back in the earl 1990's. I was browsing through my second hand store and my eye straight Battlefield earth due to it's incredibly size. Anyway, here are the good points and bad points.

GOOD:
*You don't need a degree in Nuclear sciene to understand it (just as well...)

*Lovable characters, hatable baddies. You always know what to think of a character.

*Contains romance, action, horror, suspence and intergalactic politics.

BAD
*It ended.

*The movie sucked.

*The book finished.

*I calculate I lost 10 hours of sleep over 1 week to stay up finishing this book.