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From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Replies
Message-ID: <55@birtch.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 17:34:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 26 17:34:57 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 01:21:19 EST
References: <4045@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268)
Organization: Birtcher, Santa Ana, Ca.
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Summary: 

In article <4045@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> jmturn@ringwld.UUCP writes:
>From: ringwld!jmturn@cca-unix
>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 85 18:28:52 CDT
>> From: William LeFebvre 
>> Subject: "The Invaders Plan" by L.Ron Hubbard
>
>> It's out.  I've actually seen a copy in a B. Dalton's (or was it
>> Walden's?  --same thing).  It is 500+ pages, standard hardback size
>> book, but the typing is very large (about 12 point, I think) and the
>> interline spacing is generous, which compensates for the number of
>> pages.  I wasn't that interested in the book, so I didn't bother
>> looking at the price.  An interesting aside: one of the preliminary
>
>Hubbard and Bridge Publications represent (in my opinion) an
>insideous attempt to redefine SF and Fandom into Hubbard's own
>mold. Their contests for new writers and soon-to-be published
>magazine are brutal attacks on the currently weakened SF
>mainstream, and an attempt to re-legitimize Hubbard as a founding
>father of SF. You should boycott Hubbard and Bridge Publications
>for the same reason you don't buy Dolphin skin coats, not because
>the coat isn't a good product, but because the producers are
>committing an immoral act.
>

I saw the book and the initial reaction is : bleah!!!
The second reaction : hysterical laughter - 10(!) volumes???
The third reaction : Who cares?

I looked through the book. It stinks. The writing style is sophomoric.
The storyline fails to keep readers attention ( Keith Laumer, he is not)
and the topic is REALLY not that interesting to begin with.

I have to confess I DID try to read "Battlefield Earth" ( no I did NOT pay
for it) and I couldn't forse myself to read past the first 5-6 pages. It just
was SO boring and un-attractive! And badly written too. No, Gene Wolfe he is 
not.

I don't completely agree with boycott idea though. I believe we ALL should 
subscribe to Bridge Publications FREE literature and have them provide us with 
a steady stream of house-heating materiel. Let them spend their "hard earned"
money. 

-- 
Disclamer: My employers go to church every Sunday, listen to Country music,
and donate money to GOP. I am just a deviant.
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