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Old 06-27-2014, 08:47 AM   #99
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"Battlefield Earth" is a wonderful book, in my view. A really fun space opera.

"Mission Earth" (the 10 volume thing) is complete drek, but don't confuse it with "Battlefield Earth".
+1 I thought "Battlefield Earth" was good fun.

Along similar lines, I enjoy quite a lot of Robert Heinlein - but one I wish I hadn't finished was: "The Number of the Beast". It had a great opening and then fizzled and fizzled and eventually, finally, phht!

And to continue the theme of books that failed badly for me, from authors whose other work I have often enjoyed...

"The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Tarot" by Piers Anthony
"Cradle" by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
"The Final Programme" and "A Cure for Cancer" by Michael Moorcock
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