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Departments => Books => Topic started by: EUOL on May 12, 2004, 10:25:39 PM
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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?
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my little brother loved them. he read them all about a dozen times each.
He was a weird teenager
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my freinds danny and kkevin have read them(scientologists)
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wtof?
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Sorry, I meant WOTF. Writers of the Future.
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Uhm, i read the first book. Mediocre is the word i'd use.
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yeah I didnt like them that much...
btw how's the spooky one doing?
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I only got a chapter into book one, and decided not to continue.
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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.
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Boy that's a disturbing site, right up JPs alley. Full of romurs, assumpsions and a all out hate of all religion.
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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.
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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.