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A review by scarletink
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
2.0
I think I gave up the first few times I read this.. the beginning of the book felt familiar, but I'm not sure I'd ever read all the way to the end in the past.
This reads as a decently good (perhaps 4 stars?) Sci-Fi book for the first ~40% of the book. It is the same storyline as is covered by the movie (for good reason). Lovely ending.. and then the book keeps going. And Going. And going. Where is it going you might ask? No idea. It's like Mr. Hubbard just didn't feel like stopping his book, so he kept talking about what happened next. And next, and next, and next.
Anyway, all around disappointing back 60%, ran way too long, too many details. But the front 40% of the book.. not bad! :) So 4 stars for 40%, 1 star for 60%.. I'll call it 2 stars.
This reads as a decently good (perhaps 4 stars?) Sci-Fi book for the first ~40% of the book. It is the same storyline as is covered by the movie (for good reason). Lovely ending.. and then the book keeps going. And Going. And going. Where is it going you might ask? No idea. It's like Mr. Hubbard just didn't feel like stopping his book, so he kept talking about what happened next. And next, and next, and next.
Spoiler
The particularly painful part was the "and everyone got rich and beautiful and no one died, and were super happy, and the most powerful in the universe", blah blah. What the hell.. the barbarian humans suddenly ran the galaxy, knew everything, were the smartest, the trickiest, etc.Anyway, all around disappointing back 60%, ran way too long, too many details. But the front 40% of the book.. not bad! :) So 4 stars for 40%, 1 star for 60%.. I'll call it 2 stars.