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Summary: The best book I have read, again & again & again.
Review: The book gets you in and keeps you there until the end. It never lets up. Loved the Scots. Loved the book.
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Summary: Absolutley Incredible Read.
Review: This is a book that I bought a year ago, and never started. But a soon as I picked it up again I was hooked. From the first conversation beween the Psychlos I was intregued. I actually found myself hating some characters in the book! Facinating twists, picturesque descriptions, and awesome battles give this book the perfect pacing. This work deserves an epic series of 3 hour movies to do it justice on any screen. This book also contains one of my favorite moments in literature. The hero standing, blood soaked, holding the bullet riddled body of a boy whom he called his page,in front of a armed, war ready band of gung ho cadets exclaims to them that they would not go to war to get revenge.... yet. Trully moving and THE best sci-fi book anywhere.
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Summary: It was fun!
Review: Some people have complained that Battlefield Earth has no artistic merit. True, but if you were looking for a deep, thoughtful book, why would you pick one with aliens and stuff blowing up on the cover? I read it and it was very entertaining. It is better than a lot of other sci-fi/entertainment novels because of its creativity and detail. L. Ron. Hubbard took a worn-out post-invasion story and and made it into an inspiring epic. For a book of its size, it did not drag much and was a good read. I am glad I read it.
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Summary: Throw your other SF books away, this is the only keeper
Review: Despite the books 1,000 plus pages, there is no wasted space in Battlefield Earth. Hubbard uses every page to develop characters, sub-plots and to paint mental pictures of the action that is taking place. This is by far the finest science fiction book written. A movie version would be great, but there is now way a film could do justice to this fine story.
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Summary: Battlefield Earth blows the rest away!
Review: "'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species ... ". Thus begins one of the most compelling and thoroughly entertaining stories that I have ever read. Billed as a "Saga of the year 3000" this book kept me on the edge of my seat (and bed) for a week straight. I first read this book during a week long personal reading marathon during a summer some years ago. The book was so entrancing that, despite the fact that I was in a beautiful mountain location, away from the city in which I lived, staying with family that I rarely saw, I could not put the book down. The book had been glued to my hands. I read until I couldn't keep my eyes open, and when I finally did open them, the book was right at hand and I started up again! I forsook everything for this book: food, sleep, exercise, conversation with my family. Everthing. And I must say that I have never regretted it. Battlefield Earth takes place, as billed, in the year 3000. Earth's human population is nearly extinct. 1000 years before the book takes place, man was wiped out by a technologically advanced alien race (called Phsychlos) interested only in the exploiting the mineral content of the planet for their own gain. The Psychlos are an unconsciounably cruel race who take pleasure in the pain and suffering of others. They hunt down and torture men and women for sport and take days to kill them, leaving nothing but a bloody mess behind. Thus it is that Mankind is on the brink of extinction with only a few thousand humans left on the planet, and it will take drastic action to save the race. This is a long book (1000+ pages in paperback) but well worth the time spent reading it. In fact, I have read this book a total of 7 times in the last decade, and I am thinking of reading it again. Definitely an all time favorite of mine, one that I am sure you will enjoy if you let yourself get swept up in the action and fun of the book. The plot twists will keep you on your toes and the action will knock your socks off. Enjoy!
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Summary: Stay clear of this one!
Review: It would be wrong to compare this simple and predictable story to any of what the REAL sci-fi writers are producing. Hubbard is as transparent as ever! It's a waste of time, at best.
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Summary: Absolutely captivating!!! Impossible to put down!
Review: I first read this book in '87. From the first line I was hooked. Subsequent readings (5) have proved to be even more enlightening and entertaining. I keep waiting for the movie to come out, but lo, I don't think even Hollywood can do this book justice! A MUST READ for any sci-fi enthusiast!! ENJOY!!!
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Summary: What an amazing dissapointment!!
Review: My brother read this book some ten years ago and this past summer he told me that is was an incredible epic adventure. I wasn't at all, put off by the incredible length (somewhere around 1,050 pages). In fact, that encouraged me even more. I love a book you can really get into. But this book never got my attention. I assume L. Ron Hubbard can write an interesting book, but Battlefield Earth wasn't it. But I have to give it some credit. It did have maybe 3-5 interesting "action" sequences. But you'd think a thousand page sci-fi novel would be loaded with action. And you'd probably expect a 1,000 page to have an amzing 200 page climax or something. But as a matter of fact, after about page 600, the action stopped. The last 400 pages were just a bunch of pointless sh*t. In conclusion, this is the book for anyone who likes books that have almost no action.
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Summary: From the Danish Editor
Review: I was the editor of the Danish edition of Battlefield Earth. I rarely read books more than once. But that was the fourth time I read BE, and it moved me more than ever. I could hardly believe it. This is also the book that gives you more *space* than any other book I know.
Eolake Stobblehouse
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Summary: Battlefield Earth demands to be read more than once!
Review: After you have finished it this book draws you back - a chapter here - a chapter there . . .
and then you read again.
Jonnie Goodboy Tyler is THE hero of all heros and Terl is THE villian of all villians.
Humankind has been taken over by the Psyclos (an apt satirical name) and someone has to free them. Hubbard has such a command of the English language and the sci-fi genre that you feel like you
are actually there! I was dripping sweat when Jonnie and his crew were hanging off that cliff mining gold in the side of the mountain for Terl.
And maybe one more time through the book and I can build that tele-transportation system.
What really epitomizes this book is the hero's relentless drive against truly impossbile odds to free mankind. Phew!! Give me a Jonnie Goodboy Tyler anyday!!
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