Rating: Summary: Marvelous!! Review: Follow a bungling, over-ambitious alien intelligence agent from his home world, through space and all around our earth as he tries to complete his mission, while his "Dudly Doright" partner trips, traps, and thwarts him at every turn. L. Ron Hubbard, the master of satire, expertly weaves an intriguing tale of suspense that will make you laugh, make you cry, and keep you on the edge of your seat through the entire dekology of his Mission Earth book
Rating: Summary: A Magnificent Blend of Science Fiction & Satire Review: Hubbard continues to astound me with this brilliant book 2 in the Mission Earth Dekology. The aliens infiltrate the earth culture and establish their base in Turkey in a mountian top. They launch their insidious plan to plunder earth, but Jettero Heller is acting under different orders. He is here to arrest the polution problem to keep the planet inhabitable for when the galactic government of Voltair decides it is time to invade based on their time table. The story is narrated by Soltan Gris, the man whose job it is to foil Heller's Mission and make it possible for an early invasion by the 'Apparatus' a CIA type organization on another planet. This is an incredible fun story. Heller travels from Afyon Turkey to New York City and is assaulted and befriended by everything from assassins to prostitutes. It's a very high speed adventure, and really get the whole series set up for some hillarious comedy. You will really enjoy the wit and humor of this author, as well as desire to keep reading all ten volumes. It's a great work.
Rating: Summary: A Magnificent Blend of Science Fiction & Satire Review: Hubbard continues to astound me with this brilliant book 2 in the Mission Earth Dekology. The aliens infiltrate the earth culture and establish their base in Turkey in a mountian top. They launch their insidious plan to plunder earth, but Jettero Heller is acting under different orders. He is here to arrest the polution problem to keep the planet inhabitable for when the galactic government of Voltair decides it is time to invade based on their time table. The story is narrated by Soltan Gris, the man whose job it is to foil Heller's Mission and make it possible for an early invasion by the 'Apparatus' a CIA type organization on another planet. This is an incredible fun story. Heller travels from Afyon Turkey to New York City and is assaulted and befriended by everything from assassins to prostitutes. It's a very high speed adventure, and really get the whole series set up for some hillarious comedy. You will really enjoy the wit and humor of this author, as well as desire to keep reading all ten volumes. It's a great work.
Rating: Summary: Can't put it down. Review: Hubbard was THE master of a certain technique: he leaves you at the end of each chapter hanging so far out over a cliff that you HAVE to turn the page.
Rating: Summary: Might as well buy all the books at once... Review: I don't find time to read very often and yet I have read these books through 4 times. Heller is like James Bond without the sleeping around. If you let yourself get [pulled] into the book the satire is hilarious and action nonstop. You are constantly wondering what is going to happen next. The books are a fast read so I recommend buying them all at once.
Rating: Summary: Disappointed... Review: I got sucked into the Mission Earth series after reading the spectacular "Battlefield Earth" (the best pulp scifi novel ever). Unfortunately, after buying in hardback all 10 of these bloated episodes, hoping that they would lead to a great ending, I was sorely disappointed.While the stories do have some of Hubbard's humor and some interesting satire, they don't have the cohesion, pacing or the characters of Battlefield Earth. It's not worth your time. (Note, those dust-jackets however have to be the most spectacular ever made.)
Rating: Summary: Very rambling . . . too much repetition . . . Review: I have tried to be nice to a dead author, but the whole ten volumes are one large mess. Hubbard rambles too much . . . and there is too much repetiton. His attacks on psychiatry and psychology are often without merit and his use of the name of "Corleone" for his Mafia family does nothing but make the reader long to read the superior "The Godfather."
Rating: Summary: You wouldn't believe the speed of the connection we get! Review: I know it's a generic database and all, but you'd think you'd be able to turn off the author link for famous dead people.
Rating: Summary: Can't Stop! Review: I loved all of these stories. I could not stop once I started them. The pacing is great. The satire is great. And they get you thinking. Love them all.
Rating: Summary: Don't waste your time. Review: The first nine books in this Decology are ok, but aren't worth the time it takes to read them. I struggled through the entire series only because I'm a masochist. The tenth book is better but unless you read the first nine it won't make much sense. Save your time and money. If you want to read a great SciFi book by L. Ron Hubbard, read Battlefield Earth instead.
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