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Summary: Very funny!
Review: This is my first L. Ton Hubbard book and I'm very glad I read it. Although a bit long this book kept me intersted and wanting to read. People complained that this book was not for hardcore sf fans but I disagree. It's goofy and silly and definetly not hardcore but it's very entertaining and I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
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Summary: Review of the Audio Book Version - Rating 4.5
Review: 1) Pro: Highest production audio book I've read to date. Multiple cast members playing their identified roles. Nice change from having one actor try and read for every part. This felt like it was an actual play.2) Pro: Satirical (sp?) humor and engaging characters 3) Pro: I had no idea what to expect next and the first person point of view was excellent for this story 4) Con: Ends with minimal number of things resolved
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Summary: Why's it so bad?
Review: Seemingly a member of a decreasing minority, I LIKED this series. In fact, I liked it quite a bit. Each author has his own style. Clarke delves into the nature of human society when confronted with mysterious and advanced technology. Heinlein writes witty and inviting tours into complex metaphysics. Bova excels at the individual struggle. And Hubbard, despite his Scientology rantings, writes excellent tongue-in-cheek sci-fi about unrealistic, but stylish and ultimately victorious heros and insidious and resourceful KGB-style villians. While Battlefield Earth, which in itself deserves to be in the annals of Sci-Fi immortality alongside Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land, had the cleancut and well-named Johnie "Goodboy" Tyler, Mission Earth's Jettro Heller is far more of a James Bond type protagonist. He's a combat engineer, able to take on anything that is thrown at him, anywhere in the universe. His counter, Soltan Gris, could be just a shorter version of Battlefield Earth's Terl, with his main character trait being greed rather than sadism. Gris is devious manifested, but not without a sense of creativity. Morally, he is Heller's antithesis. The chief complaint seems to lay in the fact that these characters are one-dimensional and hardly developed at all. These criticism seem to ignore the fact that they're SUPPOSED to be one-dimensional. Jettro Heller has no depth, because he's the ideal hero. Gung-ho, honorable, and always with perfect hair. It's all very tongue-in-cheek, as I've said. It's not Greek tragedy. Heller has no fatal flaw. And the entire series is satiracal, more farce than drama. Which is not to say that there are no moments of action and emotion here. Even as paper cutouts, the reader begins to feel a certain connection to both good-guy Heller and black-hat Gris. Only in a ten-book dekalogy can there really develop something like this. The characters do not change or becomes described in more detail, but they do become endearing simply for the fact that they are familiar. It's like TV. You watch Friends, and then you suddenly find yourself caring about what happens between Ross and Rachel. The book takes some (well, many) incredibly unlikely turns, but that is part of its fantastic nature. This is not Clarke, with a scientific explanation on the probabillity of a star going nova, but pure Hollywood man-flies-out-of-car-and-grabs-onto-helicopter. Parts of the novel invites you to leave your brain at the counter and enjoy the ride, but as the story progresses, the plot does gain a depth, even if the characters do not. Unreaistic? Bah. This is cubism, surealism, and pop art. Braque and Dali and even Andy Warhol rather than Da Vinci. Finally, the only real problem I can find with this series is the sheer size of it. 10 books? As someone suggested, it's reminiscent of older days, when authors were paid for words written. But it doesn't prove so false as 10 books will easily run you $60 or $70 in the hole. Not to mention that the reading of TEN books in a row with the same characters is rather daunting to some. I was lucky enough to pick up most of mine for a dollar a peice, which may have affected my view on the books. But I stayed up at night to finish them, suffered the drowsiness, and finished the entire series in less than a week. This does not often happen. There are great books and there are truely epic ones. This series fits into neither category, but it remains a wonderful and extremely fun read. Even having read and also emensely enjoyed many of the giants of Science Fiction, offen with epic and sweeping tales, I find that I still relish the experience of having read the Mission Earth series.
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Summary: Great bathroom reading
Review: As others have said, this is quite possibly the worst Sci-Fi series ever written. The author was a lunatic (btw, scientologists, he's DEAD) and I cannot recommend this book unless you are out of toilet paper.
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Summary: Lousy
Review: The begining of, quite possibly, the worst series of fiction, ever written.
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Summary: A good satire!
Review: This is one of the best Hubbard books, and the best series I've ever read. If you enjoy Sci-Fi and Jay Lenno/David Letterman, this book is a must have!
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Summary: Disappointing...
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.
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Summary: A fairly painful experience
Review: I am an avid and voracious reader, taking occasional breaks but typically devouring a book in one to two evenings. After a week of reading, and getting through the first three books in this series, I realized that I did not have to finish the series. Thus began what was a wonderful day for me: the sun was brighter, grass was greener, and my mind functioned with a clarity that has been rarer and rarer as time goes on. The characters in this book are very one-dimensional, incredibly underdeveloped and just not very likeable. The situations they get in are straight out of a sixties sitcom: "No! Don't do that! Oh jeez... He did it." Hubbard's attempts at humor are quite sad and fall very flat. Perhaps if I was still twelve and reading under the blankets I would have chuckled here and there. The gadgets and technology are only passable if you have no ounce of disbelief in you. ("Willbe-Was" drive?? Oh boy... how pathetic.) Anyway, enough trashing the book, I just really didn't enjoy it or the bad puns or anything about it honestly. I love humor (Douglas Adams), I _love_ scifi, but I found very little redeeming about this book. Sorry for the fans out there, just write this off, but I would not recommend this book to readers that enjoy "hard" scifi or even humor.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: In my opinion, the Invader's Plan is a good book. It does a nice job of setting up the characters and the plot that proves to be important later on in the series. I really like the way it is written. The story is written through the eyes of Soltan Gris, a deep character working for a government branch known as the Apparatus. He is given the mission to send a person to Earth and improve their technology so they can be invaded more easily. He is also given the secret order to make sure the mission fails! It is a great book with many twists and turns to keep you involved in the series.
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: Very enjoyable, entertaining series. The later ones are even more controversial and hilarious. The sex scandal in the UN building was priceless.... (vol. five, I believe).
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