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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've read worse books than the "Mission Earth" series. A lot worse. OK, Hubbard (who was a decent SF author) probably did little more than the plot outline, but you could do a lot worse.
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I can't speak for the whole series but I recall trying the first volume back in my youth. I'm sure I didn't finish it. Granted, a person's recollection of a work is colored with time so I looked for a review of the first volume and found this:
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In his introduction, Mr. Hubbard assures us that what follows is satire, a form of literature whose origins he carefully explains in what I take to be a satire on ponderous, self-serving pseudoscholarship. What actually follows is a paralyzingly slow-moving adventure enlivened by interludes of kinky sex, sendups of effeminate homosexuals and a disregard of conventional grammar so global as to suggest a satire on the possibility of communication through language.
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That sounds about right, IMHO.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/12/bo...e-fiction.html