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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I still like Battlefield Earth, I've read it quite a few times now, and owned a few copies of it too (the paperbacks tend to fall apart). Mission Earth I've tried a few times to get into it but it's hard to get past all the pet hates he wrote into it. I suppose it would be easier for people who shared those pet hates. I don't remember ever reading anything else he wrote. His barmy religion didn't really put me off.
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I thought some of Mission Earth was funny. I remember really liking Battlefield Earth.
The fact that his religion is wacky isn't what turned me off. What turned me off was the positive harm he did by a) taking people's money to a degree that would embarrass even a televangelist, and b) doing his best to convince people that no one needs or should be taking psychiatric medication. I consider that kind of thing unforgivable.
As far as I can tell, he used his sci-fi writing for evil when he figured out how to do it. That Xenu nonsense isn't something he could ever get away with if he called it fiction.