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Originally Posted by ottdmk
I made the horrible mistake of skimming the first six or so of those from the town library. It was like a train wreck... I oddly couldn't look away. I will state for the record though that they're not worth any amount of money. Heck, I wish I could somehow get back the time I spent skimming them.
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I've actually read his novel
Fear, twice! Don't do it. I didn't like it the first time, but it tends to receive praise so I read it a second time a few years later to see if I was missing something. I wasn't.
I also read the first I forget how many pages of The Invaders Plan, when those Mission: Earth books were being advertised like crazy and crowding the bestseller lists
* It was, in a word, dreck.
I like a lot of the old time pulp authors. I didn't want to dismiss LRH because of the Scientology wackiness. I feel fairly confident that without his church, he would be out of print and unremembered.