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Look at his Xenu story for a simple example. Societies that are trillions of years old, spaceships that look exactly like DC-8s. These are the signs of a lazy storyteller. |
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12-06-2018, 02:06 PM | #17 |
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12-06-2018, 02:14 PM | #18 |
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Over and above everything else in Hubbard's writings, he was a pulp writer. (With all the limits and flaws of a pulp writer.)
For him, Science Fiction was just another type of pulp. A type that he only wrote later in his pulp career. Now, some pulp writers transcended their pulp origins, many did not, and were left behind as the pulps died. (Think Doc Savage, for example. Lester Dent (and his ghosts) were mostly pulp writers, who disappeared (mostly) with the pulps. (A useful point of comparison)). |
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12-06-2018, 05:30 PM | #20 | |
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I may have a higher tolerance for lower quality writing though, so far the only books I couldn't finish reading were the horrific Rendezvous With Rama sequels. And even there it wasn't the writing, but the overwhelmingly bleak and depressing universe that Lee posited for humanity. There was not a single shred of hope left by halfway through the third novel, and it kept getting worse. I ended up skimming to see how it ended and gave up. It was bad enough that I refuse to even try reading anything else Gentry Lee is involved with. |
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12-07-2018, 05:56 AM | #21 |
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I've split the L. Ron Hubbard posts into their own thread in the Reading Recommendations forum.
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12-10-2018, 07:19 PM | #22 | |
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12-14-2018, 02:17 PM | #23 |
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Yes, but buying one of his books provides financial support to said crackpots. I stopped buying a particularly good brand of sewing machine needles because the profits went to a religious cult. Fortunately, there are other fish in the sea.
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12-16-2018, 07:16 PM | #24 |
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Have only listened to the audiobook of Battlefield Earth. It was so bad I couldn't bring myself to turn it off. Not until that book did I understand the mentality of morbid fascination that brings people to slow down and rubberneck at a car accident.
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12-18-2018, 11:10 AM | #25 |
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For those interested Alec Nevala-Lee has written a very good biography of Golden Age writers, Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Campbell, Heinlein, and A.E. van Vogt were all interested in Dianetics but all wanted to take it in different directions. |
12-18-2018, 12:26 PM | #26 |
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12-27-2018, 07:36 PM | #27 | |
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12-27-2018, 07:46 PM | #28 | |
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I have read Battlefield Earth three times and I am sure I will again. It's no Dune but I found it to be good SF.
I originally read it back in my younger days when I felt that any book over 800 pages long had to be worth reading. |
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