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Summary: Should have been a short novel.
Review: Four the first five hundred pages or so of this book this overworked satire works really well. The anti-hero that Hubbard creates puts a good laugh at the problems and evils of beuracracies. The concept is great, an alein invasion that exists to save the earth from humans so they could use it as a base in the future. However, as the book progresses I found the satire to get more and more tedious. If book had been kept to about three or four hundred pages I would easily call this one of the great sci-fi stories. Hubbard has created his kind of philosophy and used it to start the church of scientology. It feels to me as if he is using this book to press these ideas just a little to hard. He presses his points fabracating situations and ideas that I just didn't relate to, or just didn't agree with. Philosophy is an art that demands that people must be able to explain itself so that people can follow the chain of thought and make the same conclusions. Hubbard does not do this very well. At some point I stopped seeing the villain as a character I could relate to, and the story then becomes ridiculous. Overall this book was decent, but as for reading nine more books of the same kind of satire. Thanks but no more please.
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Summary: I read all 10!
Review: A good bit. Sort of tedious at parts, but fast-paced in others. Takes place on the richly ironic world or Voltar (like the satirist Voltaire). This could have been more "read-able" if the whole 10 book series were edited down to about 70% of its size.
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Summary: Laugh out loud
Review: This book is pretty funny!
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Summary: Ehh, so so...
Review: If I didn't know better I'd think this book'd been written back in Dicken's day, when authors got paid by the word. This is one of the longest short stories I've ever read. Hubbard could've cut out a good 200 pages and it would've been a lot more fun, and a lot closer to being comparable to the quality of Battlefield Earth. The tale is told from the perspective of Soltan Gris, an officer in a disreputable division of the government known as the Aparatus. The Aparatus kidnaps Jettro Heller and then talks him into being a spy on a mission to Earth. The remainder of the book is Soltan's bumbling struggle to get Jet off the planet and on his way to Earth. There were moments throughout the book where I was reminded that Hubbard is an excellent author. The recreation of Freudian psychology was hilarious, as was the innocence with which Jet foils every evil plot he comes into contact with. And even though Soltan was the bad guy, and a real moron most of the time, I often found myself rooting for him - even on the edge of my seat to see if he survived the crisis of the moment. The problem was that those exciting moments were too rare. They were surrounded by periods of dullness that made the book feel about 4 times longer than it is. My recommendation is that you get this and any of the sequels to this book from the library, and spend your money on Battlefield Earth. Sten or Dune should also catch your fancy.
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Summary: A Wonderful Blend of Satire and Science Fiction
Review: Mission Earth is a ten book series, and it is at a much different pace than Hubbard's other masterpiece 'Battlefield Earth'. I found this book 'The Invader's Plan' opening the series to be very exciting and interesting, mixed with intrique and adventure. This book launches the series with a plot by essentially a CIA type group called the 'Apparatus' on another planet who launch a complicated scheme to invade an off-limits planet called Earth. Earth has been labeled off-limits to galactic conquest because it has to develop more before it will come up on the Voltar galactic confederacy's timetable for invasion. These individuals create a covert plan to invade earlier than scheduled to take advantage of the resources of Earth so they can personally profit before anyone else. They unwittingly choose to involve an honest and resourceful officer in the military fleet to set up as the fall guy for the entire scheme, but soon find they are not really in as much control as they imagine as they set forth to invade earth. The young fleet officer is Jettero Heller whose intention is to accomplish his mission, which is to salvage earth. His unknown adversary is Soltan Gris whose intention and covert orders is to see to it that Heller's mission is sabotaged in favor of his group who seek to profit from Earth and plunder it themselves. And the game is afoot! Hubbard blends a wonderful selection of satire, adventure and science fiction in this magnificent dekalogy. I highly suggest you read the entire series, as it will make you laugh at the author's witty and humorous observations of the times we live. Hubbard truly is one of the great Golden Age of Science fiction writers and he exlemplifies that with this great work. I enjoyed it tremondously. You will too.
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Summary: Non Stop Page Turning
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!
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Summary: Retch
Review: This may not be the worst book I ever read, but it will certainly be on the short list of such. Science Fiction! Give me a break! This book compares to Sci/Fi the way "Green Acres" compares to the U.S. Farm Report. After reading the introduction, I was expecting to be treated to some biting satire wrapped in a good Sci/Fi story. Instead, I got a plodding story line that went nowhere for 500+ pages, and satire that reads as though it were written by a third grader. Avoid this book at all costs!
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Summary: Should be banned from calling itself Science Fiction
Review: This is the WORST, and I do mean WORST, science fiction novel I have ever had the displeasure to read. Wait...that's not true ... it's the second worst book I have ever read. The second book in this series is the worst (don't ask me why I thought there was a possibility for the series to get better). Dull, plodding, pedantic, and totally uninspired in every way, this book raised to a new level my appreciation for good science fiction ('cause this definitely wasn't it). I guess L. Ron Hubbard must have had some serious diarrhea of the mouth as this series and Battlefield Earth are two of the largest works of science fiction I know of. I guess he was trying to make up for quality with quantity. Anyway, do yourself a favor and give this boring, bloated series a wide berth.
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Summary: Disapointment after Battlefield
Review: After reading Battlefield Earth years ago, I could hardly wait when it was announced that Hubbard was coming out with a ten book Sci-Fi series. As soon as this did appear I purchased the first two books and was excited to finally be able to read more from this author. It did not take long to realize, however, that this was not of the same caliber as Battlefield. I struggled through the first book, gave the second a chance just to see if things would improve, and was so bored by the end of the second book, I vowed never to waste my time on anything else by Hubbard. Battlefield Earth was fantastic. Mission Earth is a lame duck. Hard to believe they are by the same author.
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Summary: The invaders plan
Review: To begin with, I am NOT a scientologist. I stumbled upon this series not long ago, and loved every one of the books. I could not turn the pages fast enough. As long as one realizes that it is a work of FICTION, it is an extremely entertaining ride. (I personally thought Hubbards insights into the mental health profession were right on the mark).
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