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Originally Posted by varlog
I'm a fan of Gaiman, not so much of Sanderson, whose ending of WoT, IMO, was just a fantasy, not quite up to Jordan's uniqueness.
My guess is they have read "Battlefield Earth" in their teens - and never repeated the experience. The adventure part of it could be appealing to a young reader perhaps, but you have to be very young not to notice the shallowness of characters and stupidity of plots.
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Oh my goodness, should I take that to heart? I have no idea what Hubbard intended, but I thought it was fun - once. (Years ago now, but definitely not a teenager. I do admit that I've not been tempted to go back again.) I remember it as being sort of like watching a Terminator movie or something; you're not in it for the deep thoughts, just the amusement.
This reminds me, indirectly, of the movie
Broken Arrow. (Mostly because John Travolta was also in a movie version of
Battlefield Earth, though I've never watched it - 2.4 stars on IMDB, cout-em', two-point-four! One of the reviews says "true to the book" - maybe I'd like it after all
).
Broken Arrow is an appalling movie, so cheesy you could slice it, but it always puts a smile on my face.