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Originally Posted by Manabi
I wouldn't completely dismiss it if you can read it for free. It has some interesting ideas in there, it just needed more editing to improve it, which of course didn't happen. It's not as bad as the Mission Earth series, and for example, it's light years better than the sequels to Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama written by Gentry Lee.
Buying it though? Hell no, hard pass.  |
The problem is that Battlefield Earth is way too long and will take way too long to slog through it. The not so awful bits are scattered far and wide in the book. IMHO, it's a waste of time to rad when there are so many other much better books available to read. I did read this and it was one of the biggest wastes of time.
I disagree slightly about
Rendezvous with Rama and the sequels. I would put the first book in with the sequels because it was flat, dull, and nothing really happened. It was a good premise that wasn't executed all that well.