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Old 10-08-2015, 07:42 AM   #256
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I finished Battlefield Earth and enjoyed it FOR
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'pulp' style chunk of good ol' fashioned Sci-Fi!
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Old 10-08-2015, 09:30 AM   #257
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*chokesplorf*

"Little"?
Probably comparing it to Mission Earth or whatever that humongous pile of ... um, paper, was called.
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Old 10-08-2015, 09:35 AM   #258
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Probably comparing it to Mission Earth or whatever that humongous pile of ... um, paper, was called.
It was definitely a pile of something....
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I enjoyed Battlefield Earth when I read it in high school....got a couple of books into Mission Earth and just couldn't do it anymore. Probably the worst bit of tripe I've ever tried to read.
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I enjoyed Battlefield Earth when I read it in high school....got a couple of books into Mission Earth and just couldn't do it anymore. Probably the worst bit of tripe I've ever tried to read.
Mission Earth is complete garbage, I agree.
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There must be some terrifying hidden meaning in the fact that a thread about Terry Pratchett has turned into one about L. Ron Hubbard...
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Old 10-09-2015, 11:54 AM   #262
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There must be some terrifying hidden meaning in the fact that a thread about Terry Pratchett has turned into one about L. Ron Hubbard...
We are talking about "writers who are not literary geniuses" .
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We are talking about "writers who are not literary geniuses" .
Maybe Hubbard isn't, but Pterry is.
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I feel the same way about "Dune" that some people feel about "Battlefield: Earth." Never got through it.

The lesson here appears obvious: Don't trust Anyone. The critic may be more of a hack than the writer.....
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I finished Battlefield Earth and enjoyed it FOR WHAT IT WAS, which (IMO) was a simple little 'pulp' style chunk of good ol' fashioned Sci-Fi!
Little? Heck no. It's huge. It's overblown. It's wordy. It's not good. It's not old fashioned unless by old fashioned you mean they wrote huge, overblown, not enjoyable SF in the old days.
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Old 10-09-2015, 12:37 PM   #266
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Probably comparing it to Mission Earth or whatever that humongous pile of ... um, paper, was called.
Mission Earth killed more trees for no good reason at all. I would say entire forests died for that cr@p,
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Terry Pratchett could out write Hubbard on a really bad day. Pratchett's worst book is so much better than Hubbard's best book.
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