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Summary: Entertaining, but could have been much shorter...
Review: This book was fairly entertaining from the start, but once you hit the half way point it starts to lose you. The author could easily have trimmed out a few hundred pages. Many of the characters were uniteresting, and I found some of the stroylines boring to read through. I also have to agree with some of the other reviews. The style of writing in this book is not up to a very high standard. It is very much geared towards someone in highschool, if that. All in all it was pretty entertaining with a few good plot twists.
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Summary: Battlefield Earth is the best book I have ever read.
Review: Battlefield Earth, by my now favorite author, L.Ron Hubbard, is the best book I have ever read. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a unique, creative, colorful, brilliant and excitng first class action story, filled with great heros and amazingly bad bad guys. I couldn't put this book down and when I had finished it I was sorry this totally entertaining story was over. If you want a major treat, read this great adventure story.
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Summary: A Fantastic Book
Review: This is by far the best sci-fi book I have ever read. It was a page-turner. I couldn't put it down. A true sci-fi book without Hubbards usual sarcasm that was so deep throughout his decology. If you love sci-fi and don't read this book, you are truly missing out.
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Summary: An epic saga
Review: If your looking for a great "star wars" like adventure yarn this is the winner. Don't let the length intimidate you, its an epic on a grand scale.
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Summary: The Ultimate in SCI-FI
Review: When I originally picked up a copy of the book it was about 1986. Being in the Marine Corps with nothing to do for a 3-day weekend I sat down to read a few pages......3 days later the book was finished. I couldn't put it down. It held my attention the way few books ever had, almost daring me to flip to the last chapter. If you don't normally read SCI-FI......"You gots to read dis'."
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Summary: hubbard should've took writing classes
Review: all of the characters in this novel are flat, are not even enjoyable, and no sentmentality can be gained.hubbard definitely needed to edit this book, but why? he may have wrote half of this book, depending mainly on a field of writers. think of battlefield earth as the simpsons; without the interesting characters and involving plot.
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Summary: Entertaining, but could have used some editing.
Review: This was a good book overall, but I would have definately left out about 150 pages to make it more readable. Also, the fate of some of the characters in the book was rather disappointing and anti-clamactic.
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Summary: A Story for the New Millennium
Review: Today's battle for survival is very different from that of our ancestors. The future will offer new challenges. This book addresses the timeless struggles common to past, present and future. This might make you feel that it is dry reading. On the contrary, it is exciting, adventurous, and very entertaining. I often read to escape the pressures of the day, but don't wish to have my intelligence insulted. Battlefield Earth is one of those wonderful books that makes very worthwhile and enjoyable reading when viewed strictly as entertainment, and it can also be re-read to explore the intricacies that lie in many levels below the surface. Mr. Hubbard's humor and intelligence shine through. This is a man who doesn't take himself too "seriously", and one who has a keen wit and insight into human nature. I also have heard from someone who has seen bits of a new science fiction/time travel novel, based on the work of L. Ron Hubbard and written by Dave Wolverton, another great writer. It is reported to be very exciting and humorous, with lots of twists and turns. I look forward to seeing "A Very Strange Trip".
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Summary: This was the most exciting book i have ever read in my life.
Review: It was perfect it held my attention from begining to end, all 5 times i read it .
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Summary: SciFi in the good old tradition of pulp fiction
Review: This is just a plain old fashioned adventure set in the far future. What else should science fiction be? It is exciting and entertaining in the pulp fiction style. (I hear that Mr. Hubbard was a very highly paid pulp writer in the hayday of the pulp magazines, writing under several pen names.) I read all fiction in order to be excited and entertained. Don't you? Jonny Goodboy Tyler is a true hero who has had trouble heaped upon him at every turn and makes his way out of it and wins for humanity. So did Flash Gordon and so did the Edgar Rice Burroughs hero of his Mars series. Maybe these heroes are a bit on the corny side but they sure are satisfying. It is refreshing to be able to tell good from evil. A friend recommended this book to me and I would do the same favor for anyone who reads this review. It is worth waiting for the back-order. By the way, my friend told me to watch for a new science fiction book by Mr. Hubbard that is being released sometime soon. It is supposed to be about time travel and be called "A Very Strange Trip," I think. I hope to see it on the Amazon list soon. Gee, I sure could use another far out adventure.
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