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Originally Posted by JSWolf
One of the major problems with Battlefield Earth is that is could have ended in a number of places and after the first place where it could have ended, it then felt like Hubbard was writing more just for the same of writing more. It was very wordy. The story went too long and really dragged. It would have been tolerable if it had ended a lot sooner then it did.
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I'm reminded of that story by Fredric Brown where a man stranded on an island spent years writing a poem that he constantly revised while waiting to be rescued, and finally ended up with a poem consisting of one word when he was finally rescued. The word started with an 'F'.
Perhaps Hubbard's book would have been a better story if he, too, had written a novel with only one word.
