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Summary: A good book gone bad
Review: Battlefield Earth is easily the best scifi novel I have ever read. After reading 30+ Star Wars novels, I broke away and read this book. It excited the hell out of me. Every 50 pages, a situation that I could not possibly think of a way out. Every other 50 pages, a phenomenonal solution that blew me away.For reasons beyond my comprehension, Roger Christian and the producers of the movie version decided to tinker with the plot until they cranked out a useless piece of Hollywood trash that completely destroyed John Travolta as a character. All that the movie managed to do was kill the book's selling in stores. If you hated the movie, for the love of God read this book. It will entirely change your opinion of this story.
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Summary: This book is horrible!
Review: The text was simplistic and unchallenging. The women in the book (as well as in the film) were weak afterthoughts - their only role was to be rescued. The book droned on for entirely too long. Rather than being a deep sci-fi novel, it was more of a man verses beast story that happened to involve aliens. I was throughly unimpressed and disappointed. Had it been possible, I would have given the book no stars at all.
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Summary: A really good book of Science-Fiction
Review: The story is good and when you read it you fill inside de book. This is no ordinary science-fiction book. This is a really good one. And has a lot of tecnical details, like how teleportation work or the molecular knifes.
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Summary: Mindless Human Nationalism
Review: Immediately finishing this book, I actually thought I had enjoyed. I later realized that I had succumbed to a pathetic form of hero worship that the book expounds fully. Some credit should be given for the creation of the "Psychlo" species, but the book and the author disgust me to no end. First of all, the book is entirely too long, it is not a "saga" as Hubbard claims because the book is too intellectually sterile to deserve such a title. The book praises humanity and the supposed "triumph" of the human spirit incessently, and by the end of the book the reader finds himself simultaneously revolted and bored. Moreover, the author is predictable and the great majority of alien species have little depth. At the end, the alien civilizations follow the human example and adopt a democratic system, as if that has proved even marginally effective. Please, save yourself valuable time and read Asimov or Clarke, just read anything instead of this trash. A tremendous disappointment.
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Summary: The Book was longer but better
Review: I read Battlefield Earth in 1991 when it was first published. At first I found it to read very slowly, because LRH went into so much detail(wordy). The best part to the book was the Irony of the galactic bankers showing up to reposess what the humans had fought so hard to win. The movie didn't even attempt to tell that part of the story. Yes, it is stupid to think that books would still be legible and many buildings would still be standing, but the movie's 1000 year old harrier jets was even more ridiculous. Overall, a Readers Digest Condensed version would be a nice compromise between the lengthy book and the butcher job movie. LRH explored the concepts of superior beings "out there" and how our tendancy to hurl object blindly toward them may come back to bite us one day. Likewise, he made the point that ultimately the banks will end up owning everything if we are not careful.
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Summary: this book prooves the downfall of civilization
Review: I KNOW ITS UNFAIR TO COMPARE A BOOK TO A MOVIE BUT AFTER SEEING THE THEATRICAL ADAPTATION, I REALIZE THAT THE FILM MAKES THE BOOK SEEM LIKE A MASTER PIECE.BUT TRUST ME, ITS NOT, NOT BY A LONG SHOT. THIS BOOK IS SO WEIGHTED DOWN BY BAD SCIENTOLOGIST ALLEGORY ITS ALMOST FUNNY,BUT ITS NOT. EXAMPLES: THE MAIN CHARACTER IS SEVERELY CRIPPLED DURING A BATTLE, BUT EVEN WITHOUT SERGURY HE "THINKS" HIMSELF WELL(HES A NATURAL CLEAR). HUBBARDS REVELATION THAT THE REASON THE PHSYCHLOS ARE EVIL IS BECAUSE THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY HYPNOTISTS WHO MAINTAIN THAT THEY ARE SCIENTISTS(SHOWING HIS IRRITATION AT THE MAINSTREAM PROFFESIONAL MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY)THIS IS ESPECIALLY BAD GIVEN THE NAME OF THE ALIEN RACE "PHSYCHLO" AS IN "PHSYCHOLOGIST". THIS BOOK IS ALSO TERRIBLY RACIST, THE EXTINCT ALIEN RACE OF "CHINKOS" IS UNFORGIVABLE IN ITS DEPICTION OF THEM AS HAVING THE MANERISMS OF A STEREOTYPICAL CHINESE IMMIGRANT. I ALSO BALK AT THE LENGHT OF THIS BOOK, USUALLY I LOVE LONG BOOKS BUT THIS ONE SEEMS TO GO TO EXTREMES FOR ONLY THE NOVELTY OF BEING THE "LONGEST SCI-FI BOOK". I THINK IF YOU ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO READ THIS BOOK, YOU SHOULD READ IT WITH THE SAME PURPOSE AND ATTENTION YOU WATCH A B-MOVIE, CONSTANTLY ASKING YOURSELF HOW OBVIOUSLY BAD AND SOPHOMORIC IT IS. AT LEAST THEN YOU WILL COME AWAY WITH SOME SENSE OF SATISFACTION.
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Summary: Battlefield Garbage
Review: Although I suspect this review will not be published, I must say that I think Battlefield Earth is the worse novel I have ever attempted to read. Granted, I only made it through half of the book, but by this time I was so nauseous from the sentimental, pro-American drivel that I simply could not finish. I read it whilst working in Ethiopia where there was little or nothing to do in the evenings. It is a testimony to the book's quality that I prefered to bore myself to death than read about 'Jonny Goodboy Tyler'. The name alone speaks volumes.
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Summary: Absolutely a classic scifi novel
Review: This is probably the first scifi book I ever read. Actuallyprobably the first book I ever picked up and read outside of school. Iwas hooked form the begining. The concept was great. A technologicallysuperior alien race comes down, destroy's most of humanity..then 3000years later one man sets off on a journey to find some answers and thenext thing you know earth is in a revolt and attempting to destroy thealiens. Johnny Goodboy Tyler is a classic hero. I know a lot ofpeople don't like this book...for various reasons. Scientology beingone of them. I don't care one way or another if this book has anyscientology undertones in it. I am not interested in scientology noram I interested in digging anythiing out of this book related toscientology. Just accept the book for what it is a scifimasterpeice. Then some say it is poorly written...they wouldn't wantto read it unless they were in fourth grade..... This is a definitescifi master peice and I'd mention it in the same breath as works fromAsimov, Stapledon or Peter Hamilton.
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Summary: Battlefield Earth: Just Another Project Gone Horribly Wrong!
Review: First off, I give the book two stars because: #1 the length. I grant you the last 700 pages of it was pure fodder, but give Hubbard the credit for writing the "longest sci-fi novel." #2 the title is very well crafted in a way that makes it catch your eye. Those were the only good things about the book. Starting from Chapter 1, the book went downhill. . . real fast. The originality of the character's names was poor. Get Real! Jonnie Goodboy Tyler? Second the descriptions as well as the prose was about as good as "See Spot Run" and left way too much unfinished. The plot was very flat and I was guessing what was to happen next chapters before it really did. However, sometimes, what should have happened (based on climaxes and rare context clues) didn't and then the very second grader plot veered off into another very different direction leaving me estranged and confused. The mere idea that such buildings as the Air Force Academy still be standing in Colorado is quite amusing considering that these are normal buildings with very present day construction. Also the Physclos were very one sided as villians. It seemed as if they were evil and vile for no apparent reason, like bad actors in a cheesy sci-fi space opera....
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Summary: An unbiased opinion on Battlefield Earth
Review: I don't think I've ever seen a book with such polarized opinions! This is truely amazing to me because I didn't know who to believe. That is why I checked the book out of the library and read it. From what I have read there is a grain of truth in both opinions. This novel is VERY VERY long. If you have trouble reading long novels or highly discriptive works then do not read this book. Also don't expect to find the meaning of life or the secrets of a longer lasting light bulb hidden in the text of this book; this is a work for fun not enlightenment. THERE IS ALSO NO SCIENTOLOGY GARBAGE IN THIS BOOK AT ALL, PERIOD. I don't want to hear it if you think it does. But I do feel that this is a great SciFi Novel. It has a great and very origional storyline as well as a few decently developed characters. The plot keeps you going and though the last third of the novel has no "Bang! Your dead!" action that keeps some poeples attention, it is a very witty strugle to save the Earth. I love this novel and if I wasn't studying engineering all the time I would definately read it again. Trust me. If you are looking for a good novel with an all around fun plot this is your book. If you can't read a nearly 1000 page book then don't bother.
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