Strange books you've read...

[Svengoolie 3]

I finally read the novel "battlefield earth" by L. Ron Hubbard. I was fated to,  apparently.  Good  ghawd it was bizarre! The "science" in it made star wars look like hard SF.

I never read anything by LRH again.


NEVER!!!

[pennywise37]

i refuse to read anything that man wrote on principal i don't care how good of a writer is/was i just can't bring myself to do it am i the only one who feels this way? god i hope not but i am that's okay too

[Svengoolie 3]

i refuse to read anything that man wrote on principal i don't care how good of a writer is/was i just can't bring myself to do it am i the only one who feels this way? god i hope not but i am that's okay too

There's nothing wrong with how you feel.  I used to be ok with Scientology as I saw it as a cult that  ripped off gullible rich fools and celebs, but a friend of mine showed me the truth about how they hurt people.

[Alex]

I did read Battlefield Earth as a teenager. Why anyone ever thought that would make a good movie is beyond me.

[Svengoolie 3]

i love Piers Anthony and he's done a lot of weird sh*t too

You are referring to Cthon?

[pennywise37]

that one is a weird one and i never did finish that one, see what happened was years ago i had the paperback of it, i left it on the ironing board one day and i think i had about half of it read, it was decent and than it fell off the ironing board and hit the floor my mom or my dad didn't pick it out which still does p**s me off because than our water pipe burst and hence no more book that still p**ses me off as i was halfway done  reading it and i don't remember how many pages i had left but i have never seen that one in stores again to replace it, it also was an early pressing too which is another reason why i'm still mad about it.

it was the paperback version of it in fact it may have even been the 1st printing i honestly can't remember but i had to throw it out 

but i do remember it being a really weird one. the ring was pretty weird too i think that was from (1968) i have that on paperback still and i liked it up until the ending which i thought was terrible. the rest was decent have you read that one? another one i liked but hated the ending was another early one called Race Against Time from (1973) i read that one in high school and i liked it up until what else the ending! i hated the ending

[RCMerchant]

Anything by Charles Fort is waaay out there.It's not just what he writes about- it's his way of writing about it, and his not trying to explain it in any kind of normal manner- I can't explain Fort.
It's like trying to explain modern jazz.

[RCMerchant]

I finally read the novel "battlefield earth" by L. Ron Hubbard. I was fated to,  apparently.  Good  ghawd it was bizarre! The "science" in it made star wars look like hard SF.

I never read anything by LRH again.


NEVER!!!

I have no use for L.Ron Humbug

[Svengoolie 3]

Having cthon destroyed halfway thru you reading it may have saved you from being scarred for life. It got really bizarre and ran up the "eyeeeww!" factor. (It involved invest and Rape)

There were some sequels including one written by another author.

[Svengoolie 3]

I still say some of you have to read "the iron dream" if you can find it.

[Svengoolie 3]

I did read Battlefield Earth as a teenager. Why anyone ever thought that would make a good movie is beyond me.

John travolta was a scientologist.

[pennywise37]

well Piers Anthony has really gotten into some weird sh*t. it's been so long since i last read that book i'm talking about early 2000's i think it was? that i don't remember anything about that book at all. i do remember that it was decent from what i read of it and that it had to do something with working underground and that's about it. yeah that last book Piers Anthony gave permission to for that author to write in fact cause he liked the book that he wrote.

and John Travolta is still in that cult, the thing about Travolta though is i hear he's a really nice guy Actually he's not a freak like Tom Cruise is. i've never heard anyone say anything bad about Travolta and for him to be well Normal even if what he believes in is a cult that's just messed up and well nice to hear that he's normal. i dunno how else you can put that to be honest, i've seen people online say how much they love that movie not because they think it's a fantastic movie but because they are amazed and applaud how bad it is and that's why they love it. i tried watching it once and i think i watched 20 minutes of it IF that and

i could not sit past that on how bad it is. and Travolta even put some of his Own money to get that thing made too can you believe it?

[Svengoolie 3]

Well, even as bad as BE was, it had a good moment hidden it it.

The scene where the young guy gets teleported to the enemy homeworld and blows it up with a nuke, and he was actually shedding a tear as he silently detonated the bomb that killed him but saved earth. That was the best moment in the movie.
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He didn't crack a one liner, he didn't snarl some four letter words, he died in a more believable fashion. He was a young healthy guy, he didn't want to die. He wanted to live, get married, etc. He was sad and maybe afraid to die, he couldn't help shedding a tear for all he was going to lose.

But he did it to save everyone else, that was real heroism, and his death was more believable than, well, most movie deaths and anything else in that ghawdawful crapfest of a movie.

There! I did it!  actually said something good about battlefield earth!  People can flame me and boo me all they want, but i was being honest.

[pennywise37]

honestly i don't even remember anything i watched the fact that  you remembered that at all shocks me because the film is that forgettable

[316zombie]

no "elron" for me either, even in my hardcore SF phases. his " religion" IS dangerous.