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L Ron Hubbard's Invasion:Earth series

nuberty

01:32 / 18.01.03

I read this when i was 14 years old and just wanted a great big epic sci fi to read. I knew nothing about L Ron Hubbard at the time and i don't remember picking up on any scientology elements at all in the book. At some points in the book my 14 year old mind realised that some thing much more than an epic sci fi decalogy was going on and it almost felt as if i shouldn't be reading these things.

I was wondering if anyone else has read these books. I can't remember much about them but i saw them in a second hand book store the other day and im going to pick them all up for $20 next week and i'm really looking forward to picking over them in great detail. Does anyone also know when they were written.

Yagg

06:54 / 18.01.03

Seems to me mid 80s. I was about the same age you were. I'd not heard of Hubbard or Scientology either. I read the first one, liked it, and then found out there were ten of them and just gave up somewhere through the second or third. Didn't seem worth it at the time. Lemme know what you think...Maybe I'll dig them up and finally read them. Subtexts and all.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:13 / 18.01.03

Not read 'em either, I'm afraid. And I probably won't. I read about half of Battlefield Earth when I was about 14 myself, and it was strange- while I was actually reading it, I couldn't put it down. Once I'd put it down, I really couldn't be arsed to pick it up again.

Apparently his novel "Fear" is good, though.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

04:41 / 22.01.03

They were printed mid 80's, but the style seems to me that they were written much much earlier. I read them during a month I was unemployed, and while they weren't great, they were semi-decent pulp action stuff with some decent plot twists.

I can't remember a damn thing about them now, which is good for that sort of thing. Just a mindless page turner that evaporates as soon as you finish it.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

01:31 / 19.02.03

I started reading these back in 4th and 5th grades and they were a serious mindfuck to me back then. Now I can look back and go "holy shit, those were shit" but at the time they were mind-blowing.

Of course, I sadly have to admit that they were probably one of the biggest influences on my reading habits back then. Prepped me for stuff like Illumnatus! and Foucault's Pendulum.

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