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Summary: Great book, by far surpassing the movie.
Review: This is a great book, by far surpassing the horrid depiction of it in the movie. I have read this book twice and it just got better the second time. The first time I read it was before the movie had been introduced, after watching the movie I had to read it a second time so i could really lose my memories of the movie. The characters in this book were great, the plot was very extravagant with many sudden turns that one does not expect, and the over all idea was completely fascinating. I will certainly read this again.
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Summary: I don't care what you say....
Review: It is a GREAT, absolutly a great story. I've heard allot of complaints about this book, but i lvoed it the char's were exciting and interesting. Mr. Hubbard may have had some odd ideals about religion , but he can weave a great story..I'de put this book in my top 10..
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Summary: Best Pulp Sci-Fi novel ever...
Review: This is L. Ron Hubbard's masterpiece of popular SF. The plot involves an alien race, the Psychlos, who dominate the galaxies with their instantaneous teleportation technology...And sometime around the year 2000, they take over earth...1,000 years later, the few humans remaining on the planet fight back.It's simply a rollicking good time. Don't read this looking for great literature. Read it for the adventure! Don't be intimidated by the 1,000 pages...Hubbard's writing style is extremely breezy--and you won't be able to stop reading, besides. As far as this book being a fictionalized version of Scientology, it certainly contains many of the same elements, but it won't convert you or anything. Just treat it as a pulpy scifi epic and leave it at that! I've read it four or five times already, so give it a shot.
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Summary: Hard to put down page turner
Review: I picked up this (tied to the movie release) reprint of Battlefield Earth. Despite the universal bad reviews for the BE movie, I went to see the film. While it has it flaws, it not the worst SF film ever made. The film did intrigue me to read the book. The book is much better, but it did sag towards the last 200 pages (That's actually a whole book by itself). Some of the problems with the film was some of the questionable plot points, gladly the book goes into to detail on these, or has a totally different point in the book. Which begs the question of when given a plausible explantion of a point, why change it to make seem hokey. For those who weren't totally turned off by the movie. I would recommend reading this book. Be forewarned to set aside time away from family and friends. Do not read this during the work week. Your boss and coworkers will not thrilled by the snores coming from your cubicle.
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Summary: You could read 1000 pages of something else instead
Review: If you are reading these reviews to decide whether or not to buy/read this book: Unless you have nothing else to read, you are better off reading several other books and not spending the days it would take to get through this. The rest of the reviews are full of hundreds of biased 'readers' who think this is the best drivel ever written. I would imagine 10-year old boys would probably enjoy this book, although I would not recommend it to any. It is indeed a fast- paced, easy to read book, each conflict ending approximately 10 pages later, miraculously. This is supposedly the longest science fiction novel ever written, and one can only conjecture that was one of the main reasons for writing it, and for injecting so much needless fodder. One can only wonder what other motives he had for writing so much of this. The author seems to really have it out for psychologists, calling the main alien enemy race "Psychlos" (how would an alien race's name be anglicized to be spelled with a 'psy'?) for psychologists. I quote: "Just electrical impulses approximating brain commands. Some man-scientist did this maybe thirteen hundred years ago and thought he'd found the secret of all thought and made up a cult about it called 'psychology.' Forgotten now." More blatantly: "That was one lesson to be learned. Anyone who befriended or thought to cooperate with the Psychlos was doomed from the beginning." I like science fiction. I like to see plausible explanations for nonexistent technology. This book has none of that hardcore fictional science. The way the author defines the genres of science fiction and fantasy, this book falls into the latter category. It is filled with cliches, racial stereotypes (perhaps more accurately entitled Battlefield Anglo-Saxon), and is wholly predictable for anyone over the age of 6 (although it is interesting to notice all that was ripped from WWII). There are many reasons to not read this book. I read it to try to get an insight into the author of so many bestsellers, including this one (until I found out HOW it became a bestseller and who was actually buying all the copies). If you are looking for a good book to read, consider some real science fiction and remember you could read several in the time it takes to finish this one. And you won't feel as if you wasted nearly as much time.
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Summary: Good Science Fiction Novel.
Review: I actually had an older version of this book before i bought the movie tie in. Unfortunaly at the time i wasn't really into Sci Fi books so i tossed it off after about a hundred pages. But when the movie came out I decided to read the book before going to see it.Unfortunaly someone must have sold the one i had since i couldn't find it, so i went down to wal-mart and bought the new version. Once I started reading I couldn't stop, it had a good story and the characters were fleshed out pretty good the action was well detailed. At times it kinda drags along with useless details such as the explanation of a persons lunch or some such nonsense but it's only for a few pages then it's back to the action. When I finished the book and rented the movie I was shocked at the lack of story and basically sense of it all. For instance in the book the planned raid in the dome didn't start for a year, in the movie it was maybe a month at the most. And the characters in the movie are nothing but stick figures. Hopefully if they decide to remake it their better off putting it on tv as a mini-series rather than a movie than that way they can put the whole story rather than just half of it, and for the love of god don't get either John Travolta or Roger Christanson involved.
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Summary: Hubbard Writes Great Fiction
Review: I like Hubbard fiction and his old works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Others like Asimov, Heinlein, etc. also catch my attention. I like this quote about the book: Back in the fray after 30 years of absence is L. Ron Hubbard, one of the great formula and pulp writers of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Battlefield Earth is the huge, rollicking saga of Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. A youth from the hills where remnants of mankind hide from a high-technology race of aliens who have occupied Earth for a thousand years, Jonnie is captured by the aliens and ends up turning their own technology against them. The pace starts fast and never lets up. It's a fascinating satire on today's world. I actually like the hit on psychology at the end. It's a fake science at best!
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Summary: The movie made an embarassment of the Book
Review: I suffered through the movie Battlefied Earth, only then to manage to build my strength up enough to read the book. Fortunately I bought the book BEFORE I saw the movie. If it was the other way around I would have probably tried to set fire to every copy I found. After I saw the movie, I was sick to my stomach. After I read the book, I thought I was going to die. How the heck did they come up with that story for the movie?!! It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the book!! I was completely absorbed with the book, and I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Sci-Fi. I also plead with you to give the book a shot if you have seen the movie. The movie is a completely different story. Where the hell did those Harrier Jets come in?!!! I finished the book only to think the movie should have been titled, "John Travolta's Battlefield Earth", because that certainly wasn't L. Ron Hubbard's.
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Summary: a mistake
Review: I sat down to read this after seeing the trailer for the movie and having a friend suggest it to me as being a good book. That was a mistake. I read half of it before I had to put it down in disgust. I later found out that the reason my friend liked it was that it was stereotypical of the genre to him. I have to agree with him. It has the stereotypical hero, villain and plot. There was no creativity to be found in the book. The writing style was atrocious. With as bad as this book is, I could never suggest to anyone that they read this book.
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Summary: THE WORST BOOK EVER?
Review: It could be. Honestly,one of the most mind-bogling slow and poorly paced plots,of all time. Some folks find it to contain adventure I found NONE it was real bad.
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