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Summary: BEWARE OF 5-STAR REVIEWS
Review: I was given this book as a Christmas gift this year. After one hour, I stopped reading it. I've read more interesting bus stop signs that this drivel. The character were totally on-dimensional and the story ws severely lacking. As for the good reviews it gets here, they're more likely from Scientologists. I should know since they use to come and buy the books in bulk where I used to work. When we reordered them, we sometimes got back the very books we sold. This method made it seem Hubbard was a best-selling author. Now it has been adapted to the Internet to make look great on this review board. If you want a great Sci-Fi book involving the mind I HIGHLY RECOMMEND William Gibson's "Neuromancer." Gibson is a FAR better writer on his worse day than Hubbard on his best one.
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Summary: The Greatest Sci-Fi of All Time!!!
Review: By far this is the most entertaining and fast paced Sci-Fi I have ever read. I read it the first time in 3 days, and turned around and read it again. I see many people don't like the number of pages. They must not read much. This book could have 1000 more pages and still not be enough! It is always sad when a good book ends. You wish there was more.
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Summary: Wait for the movie, and then rent the video.
Review: I found this epic to be slow, with few surprises, and not much of a bang at the end. Looking back, I am sorry I spent the time reading through its 1,000 plus pages. Not much of a page turner, although I can see how it might appeal to a young audience. The characters and narration have a very one-dimensional tone--dumbed down for mass circulation--or maybe this is as good as Hubbard gets. Either way, I recommend reading something else. This one's just not worth the trip.
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Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST
Review: I am a science fiction fan who has been one for over 30 years. I have read all of the new classics. None of them prepared me for the above treat. The action was non stop. The playing field was the entire Universe. If I did not have to work I would not have put the book down. This book is special. Until now if asked what was my favorite science fiction book, I would always say that there really was not one but four or 5 that particularly stand out. Now there is one, and it is BATTLEFIELD EARTH.
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Summary: Bad plot, thin characters, dull prose
Review: This book encompasses all the weaknesses of L. Ron's science fiction, and extends them by going over 1000 pages. The plot certainly reminds you that Hubbard made his biggest literary splash in the pulp magazines, and he should have stuck to them. He simply didn't know how to write characters that readers would be interested in for more than ten pages.
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Summary: I bought this book for 10 yen at a used book fare in Tokyo.
Review: It was the right price. The aliens appear more human than the humans, Jonnie Goodboy the hero is so cool he is absolutely stripped of the ability to communicate his feelings, and the women are reduced to victims and/or washers of dishes. Can't put into words what kind of book this is, so let's use the author's own: "Terl could not have produced a more profound effect had he thrown a meat-girl naked into the middle of the room", About the heroine: "She was a slight girl, very pretty, about 18...She had wrapped around herself a doeskin, really tight, it showed her breasts and a lot of bare leg...Chrissie lay on her stomach beside him, idly shredding the seeds from a large sunflower with her very white teeth", "Crocodiles were all over the river bank in front of them and a ring of the beasts were circling around the flying platform...the roar of the motors and the bellow and roar of the crocs were deafening...", "Over there a young man had thrown a girl down and they were...yes, they were! Fornicating right out in public. Bittie turned his head away and tried to purify his thoughts. But the direction he turned showed him a man making a child do something unspeakable.", "He wrote a book: [The Jonnie Goodboy tyler I knew, or The Conquror of Psychlo, Pride of the Scottish Nation]. It was not as good as THIS book, for it was intended for semiliterate people.", "Jonnie got another kill-club and smashed his brains out". Had it but been his own.Names of people and aliens: Arsebogger, Dries, Timmie Brave Tyler, Psychlo, Jambitchow, Windsplitter, Gloton, Fowljopan, Rogodeter Snowl, Browl, and Angus. Happy reading.
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Summary: Impossible to put down.
Review: I have read this book twice. The first time I got through the 1500 or so pages in TWO days, doing virtually nothing but read. It is that hard to put down. Some may be scared off and wary of Hubbard's scientology background, but to them I would say "Put it out of your head and unbiasedly treat BE like the great story it is". This is the only Hubbard book I have ever not hated. An incredible contrast to his other work!
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Summary: Great Four Star Book!
Review: I read this book while in Saudi Arabia (Desert Storm) and it kept me coming back for more. Though not one of the best books ever read I do recommend it for people who love long stories with an interesting plot. The issue I had had the "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture" gold star on the cover. I wonder what ever happened with that?
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Summary: One of the Top 5 Best SCI-FI Novels of all time
Review: Its been 10+ years since I consumed this novel. I found it to be very entertaining. True, It does get second-gradish at times, but the overall experience is well worth the time.
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Summary: Hard to put down
Review: I saw Battlefield Earth on my shelf and made the mistake of picking it up (it had been about ten years since I first read it). I only intended to skim through it, but the story is so engrossing that you can't put it down. The second half becomes a little preachy and the character types exaggerated at times, but overall it is a great science fiction story. Every time you get to a point that seems like the climax of the story, you realize that there are still several hundred pages left!
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