Strange Gift....

[EUOL]

So, Jim Connely--the WTOF publisher--sent me a big box in the mail via the English department.  (They called me several times while I was on vacation, complaining that they were tripping over it and I need to come get it.)

I picked it up today, and what did I find?  A ten-volume matching set of leather-bound MISSION EARTH books.  

I don't know quite what to think.  Jim's been eagerly trying to get me to use Hubbard's books in my class, and I already promised him I'd use the WOTF anthology.  

Anyway, the books are WAY cool.  I have to admit, though, that the Mission Earth series is kind of mediocre.  Anyone else read any of the books?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

my little brother loved them. he read them all about a dozen times each.

He was a weird teenager

[Maxwell]

my freinds danny and kkevin have read them(scientologists)

[Spriggan]

wtof?

[EUOL]

Sorry, I meant WOTF.  Writers of the Future.

[Entsuropi]

Uhm, i read the first book. Mediocre is the word i'd use.

[angel]

yeah I didnt like them that much...
btw how's the spooky one doing?

[Lieutenant Kije]

I only got a chapter into book one, and decided not to continue.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

My Dad read them all. I think he was entertained. He didn't really comment much about them except to say that it got risqué in parts. (Which was more of a big deal back then, I guess.)

This, however, is an eye-opener--an account by the man who edited Hubbard's manuscripts into the form that was publishable. http://www.skeptictank.org/mearth.htm

I think I heard somewhere though that Battlefield Earth was a good book.

I also heard that Hubbard's writing went downhill after he died.

[Spriggan]

Boy that's a disturbing site, right up JPs alley.  Full of romurs, assumpsions and a all out hate of all religion.

[JP Dogberry]

How is that up my alley? I address your points logically:

1) A rumour in year 4 made me cry. I've had a loathing of them since.

2) Assumptions. I don't make "assumptions". I make "factual statements from proof yet to be discovered."

3) I don't hate religion .

Ok, I do hate religion, but not religious people, God, Faith, mediatation, prayer or what have you. Just the religion itself.

[EUOL]

Yeah, Ookla, I read that after I got the gift.  You can find it several places on the web, apparently.  I'm not sure how much I trust the guy--after all, he admits himself that he wasn't trained as an editor and he seems fairly bitter about Hubbard.

However, I'll admit, Hubbard sounds like a pretty strange guy.  My ME experience wasn't a very good one--I didn't really get it.  I think I was too young to understand that it was satire, and I was looking forward to a big, cool, ten-book space-opera.  I'm surprised I even got through the three or four books that I did.