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Summary: loved it
Review: great book.read it years ago when it first came out . am on my 3rd copy now. cant wait to see the movie.
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Summary: Zzzzz
Review: I'm glad people don't write science fiction like this anymore. If they did, I'd be reading westerns instead. The science is terrible, and the characters and plot are even worse. If you want to read good science fiction, look somewhere else. And L. Ron Hubbard had the skill to make even the most incredible action scenes boring.
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Summary: 1930's Space Opera written in the 1990's
Review: This is a 1930's space opera written in the style of the 1990's. Essentially it is a John Campbell style human supremacy novel where a few earthmen (and I mean men) save the earth from technologically superior aliens. I had avoided reading this novel for years because of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology connection but that was my mistake, there is no Scientology biases in the novel until the last 10 pages or so where the novel rants about psychologists and the science of psychology. I read this novel mainly because a movie is being filmed of it and I wondered how it will work. Probably very badly with a female audience. The 10-29 year old male crowd will love it. The women are largely there for decoration. Their main purpose is to clean up after and cook for the men. The book is a page turner, and a fun read but not for the discrimnating SF fan. This is truely space opera with its epic of one man's struggle against the oppression of the aliens and unrealistic adventures and dubious scientific premises. I recommend it for reading on long airline flights or taking to the beach but there is plenty of better SF out there.
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Summary: The best SF book I have ever read.
Review: Originally, I am from Iran. I had always loved SF in Farsi and when I first moved to the US, I looked for good SF in English. Somehow, SF books in English were either extremely good, or I couldn't relate to them at all. The latter for the most part, I gave up reading SF altogether. When by accident I read Mr. Hubbard's Battlefield Earth, my faith in SF was finally restored. I thought, anybody who could write such an intelligent & captivating book, & so well written, must be a genious. Now that I have read the book several times, I must confess that I have learned alot about what good writing really is. I strongly recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: The raddest book in the world
Review: very good reading. entertaining, gets a bit slow in the middle but the rest is awsome
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Summary: Entertaining if you don`t take it to seriously
Review: I have read BE three times and will read it at least once more hopefully. I felt that it was to drawn out after psychlo was destrayed. If it had ended right there with Jonnie Goodboy Tyler and Chrissie living happily everafter it would have been a great SF Novel as is I would still recommend it if you just want to be entertained for a couple of days. You should also read the introduction written by LRH in Oct 1980 in which he states that he wrote this novel just to amuse himself
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Summary: Entertaining, though more fantasy that science fiction
Review: My first reading of an LRH story turned out better than I thought. This definitely has an epic storyline but it doesn't have the depth to be truly notable. The characters ran hot and cold - the Psychlo Terl being very well done while Goodboy Tyler was an unbelievable combination of John Boy Walton and Rommel. Perfectly pulpish - this would be entertaining when presented in weekly doses. As one big story, however, it become lethargic and incomprehensible. The hero is supposed to win - I understand that - but as the hero survived every predicament without any worries, the challenges became irrelevant and the last third of the book had a "so what" feel. An aside, some reviewers claim that scientology buffs flooded these reviews with highly rated commentary. That may be so but I also suspect the opposite is true. I was able to read/enjoy this without thinking once about scientology - for better or worse.
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Summary: Good but looong....
Review: I listened to the unabridged audiobook -- which was 30 tapes. The first half of the book was great. The story was interesting, the characters varied, and the narrator was doing a heck of a job changing voices to make the characters sound distinct. But by the time I got towards the end of the book, I thought that the book could have been wrapped-up earlier without the story suffering. It seemed to run out of steam and was just plodding along with a little of this and a little of that thrown in to keep the momentum. If the book had stopped earlier, I'd have given it 4 stars. But the long ending, in my opinion, took something away from it. However, this was my first book by this author and I'll likely try something else of his. It just won't be 30 tapes long!
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Summary: Pure Science Fiction pleasure
Review: I read a lot of books from classics to mysteries to science fiction. I loved this book. It kept me absorbed from start to finish. A straight forward science fiction adventure in the old style of the "good hats" and the "bad hats" with plenty of excitement and a terrific finish. It is very wholesome clean fun and easy pleasure reading. Yet if you are bright enough to read between the lines there are some very interesting insights about earth and its practices in it. I cannot wait for John Travolta's movie about it to be finished and released! I have read it twice by now and enjoyed it just as much or more the second time. Highly reccomend it!
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Summary: Entertaining and engrossing
Review: The only slight blemishes to this novel would be the utter lack of science in the fiction and the relative shallowness of the female characters - but I must confess, it really was one of the most entertaining novels I've ever read and place it #5 after such star spanning epics like Asimov's Foundation series, Arthur C. Clarke and Heinlein's beserker wars. If you like satire (and get it) you might try Hubbards' "Mission Earth" series. There have been a few complaints about some of the novels being slow, but I didn't notice this. Also, thankfully not a trace of Scientology could anywhere be found.
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