Battlefield Earth

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Summary: One of the all time best sci-fi books writen.
Review: This story is an all time great. The way it incorperates feelings and emotions makes you feel like your standing there watching everything. This book will make you turn the page again and again and once you've finished you will read it again. Why? Because only a great author could do something like this to his readers

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Summary: A dozer
Review: One of the few books I was actually never able to finish. I kept falling asleep.

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Summary: Don't believe the reviews!
Review: The problem with this book isn't Mr. Hubbard's poor use of grammar, its tedious plotting, or even its excessive length (although this alone is enough to turn most readers off). The real problem with this book is its juvenile attempt at story telling. I can ignore poor grammar and sloppy language. I can suspend belief and read on with an open mind. I can even overlook the pubescent and inconsistently drawn plot. But sooner or later I want to learn something, identify with a character, absorb some new philosophical or political metaphore of life, feel something, or just simply be entertained. Battlefield Earth achieves none of these fundamental requirements for any enjoyable story. Every plot twist is telegraphed, the characters (jonnie especially) are transparent, cliched, and have no depth. And the book reads like the fribble of an eleven-year-old, having seen Indiana Jones for the 30th time. Don't believe the favorable reviews. You're not missing anything here. This book is an over-sized attempt at what talented sci-fi writers have already achieved both before and after Hubbard's work. Go read something worth your time. Not this.

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Summary: This should be on every sci-fi fan's bookshelf.
Review: BATTLEFIELD EARTH ranks up there with Heinlein's "Starship Troopers," Herbert's "Dune" and Dan Simmons' "Hyperion" as books any sci-fi fan just HAS to read. (I'm itching to give my whole list...) Hubbard's unique flavor comes from his mastery of satire. Imagine Voltaire writing science fiction (well, he did a little... ;). There are honestly some new, simple takes on old ideas herein that leave you thinking "why didn't I think of that?" The tapes are great if you are one of those people who can listen to such things while you drive. You may find yourself circling the block to hear the next passage...

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Summary: The term "PAGE-TURNER" was invented for this book!
Review: I was reluctant to read this book for years. I thought all the hype about Ron Hubbard's science fiction was just spillover from his fame in the self-help field. Once I started though, I couldn't stop, and I now buy every Hubbard sci-fi book I see. My advice is, don't start this book on a school-night, because you won't sleep for days. P.S. The idea about a hostile race finding Voyager might cause you to lose sleep too, once you see Hubbard's reasoning.

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Summary: Really you should just enjoy it.
Review: Just about every modern sci-fi(I used this term to make the one star reviewer yell at me) author has admitted to being changed by this book. Everybody who reads it with an open mind enjoys it, and it is a book that changed the way people think. Who cares if he doesn't have verb agreement? Just read the books and enjoy them, stop dissecting them. I get so tired of reading a really good book and coming on here to see people who try to soil a book because they do not want to just read it. The most entertaining and new ideas usually do not come from English majors. Rather scientists and simple magazine writers.

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Summary: THE finest Sci-Fi epic I know of.
Review: You would be hard pressed to find a finer Sci-Fi (or otherwise) story anywhere. The depth and scope of Battlefield Earth astounds. Hubbard again has proven his mastery of plot and pacing. This story rivets, cover to cover, and doesn't disappoint.

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Summary: over the top and unbelieveable
Review: Somewhere in this book I lost track of what was going on. The beginning was cool, but it went downhill from there. I can understand that the author was trying to make Jonny some kind of epic hero (which sometimes works well, as in Dune and Star Wars) but here it just did not work. And how did a planet of 10000 humans overthrow an empire of a billion planets. Somewhere it was explained, but I forgot what exactly it was.

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Summary: Poorly written, tedious, and off-key space opera.
Review: After reading the many favorable reviews, I picked up a copy of Battlefield Earth, hoping for an exciting, and well written sci-fi novel. My hopes were soon dashed. Mr. Hubbard suffers from a long grocery list of poor writing skills: Redundancy, unoriginal characterization, tedious plotting, and a self-indulgence that permeates through the novel like cheese gone bad. Who was this guy's editor?! This is simply bad writing, and a waste of reader's time. The only answer I could have for the other glowing reviews is if Battlefield Earth were required reading for sixth graders. Mr. hubbard's glaring grammatical errors are only superseded by his tedious and banal use of language, evidenced on each exhausting page. Sure, he has a wide "Sci-Fi-Space-gadget" vocabulary, but his writting is so sophomoric, it becomes torturous to read to the next chapter. People, don't waste your time reading this over-romanticized, dime store novel. You will have saved yourself time, money, and agony. Stay away--in a galaxy far, far away from this poorly written space junk.

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Summary: It Does NOT repeat NOT get much better than this!!!!!
Review: I took this novel on a trip to Washington D.C. and was almost going to stay in my hotel for a day instead of going to A&S museum, (I LOVE space). I started reading it about 5 minutes before boarding and almost walked right into the side of the plane because I couldn't take my eyes off of it. I spent nearly all night reading it and was so tired in the morning I just stayed in my room and finished it. This book was so good I was seriously considering just forgetting the sights and reading until I had to leave, and then some! If you want a good sience fiction novel you can really bite into, this is it!!