I am a HUGE fan of Science Fiction. My library has nearly 300 books just in that genre alone (and over 2000 others), and fills some sixty cardboard boxes. I -LOVE- Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and all the classics. Even Athony and Niven, Goddess help me! Isaac Asimov was a GOD! Herbert was His only begotten Son!

Before reading the book I read the reviews here. Frankly I thought that all the reviews calling it "the worse book ever written" were probably gross overstatements. Now, having read over half the book, I can see that those reviews are a vast UNDERSTATEMENT. To say this book is poorly written is to tell a "lie of ommission:" the English language lacks the proper words to say just how bad this book is. Bad. I mean bad. Very, very bad. Bad as in "What six-year-old wrote this pile of ----?!" bad. Bad as in "Why did I spend US$21 on this steaming pile of Hubbard's toilet leavings?!" bad. It is "I want my money back!" bad. Bad as in injurious to one's sense of good taste; bad as in an insult to the reader's intelligence; bad as in painful to read while waiting and waiting and waiting for something good about the book to show up---- after 600 pages, I just gave up.

It's THAT bad.

No, it's worse. But I would need to coin new words and phrases in the English language for me to say just how poorly written "Battlefield Earth" is. A word like, maybe, "Hubbardly," or "Scientolistic," or "Travolting," or "Dianeteous."

Save your money: don't buy this Hubbardly Scientolistic Travolting Dianeteous book.

"Don't worry. I don't think you're a Scientologist. I just think you have incredibly shitty taste."