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In the year 3,000…

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard

February 18, 2025 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Around this time last year, I finished reading War and Peace. That was a bucket list book that took me a loooong time to finish but that I found to be worth the effort. This year, I finished the 1,000+ pages of L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth. Hubbard isn’t Tolstoy, but I finished the book feeling accomplished and that my reading efforts were rewarded. As you can guess from the title and the cover, Battlefield Earth is set a millennium from now. Human society has devolved, […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: L. Ron Hubbard

Halbs's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: L. Ron Hubbard ·
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A Bridge Too Far

February 22, 2015 by Zirza 1 Comment

This may be the first time I read a book about something and at the end, feel like I have learned absolutely nothing about the subject. Not because Going Clear is not a good book, but because so little is known about the organisation it discusses, the Church of Scientology, that it’s hard to know what to make of it. A quick google search doesn’t reveal anything more: the book says X, the church says Y. In fact, there is an entire website – run […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence Wright, scientology, Tom Cruise, What?

Zirza's CBR7 Review No:9 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence Wright, scientology, Tom Cruise, What? ·
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