Post by monsterzero on Jul 18, 2005 17:05:51 GMT -4
Well, just finished reading a bit more of 'Bare Faced Messiah' and came across two interesting things:
1) Famed sci-fi author A.E. Van Vogt was quoted exclusively on the hardcover edition of Battlefield Earth as saying how great the novel was. Oddly enough, he later admitted to not reading it due to it's size. And honestly, he probably saved a few months of his life by not doing so.
2) 'Messiah' shows the last days of L. Ron Blubbard as being locked away in an expensive house as pretty much the gnome in the attic who never spoke to people in a current state of paranoia, fear, and bouts of meglomania. What makes this very funny is that is how exactly the main character of Mission Earth ends up in the novel: on the run from various agencies just like he ran away from everything in his life, a complete wreck and recluse with grandose notions of self-importance, and completely bonkers. In short, it's easy to see that Mission Earth is an autobiography of a pompous madman who is able to inject faux achievements and adventures yet unable to escape the fact that he's a toad who only got above his station by not being his execrable self. Not quite a fitting end to a waste of a human being, but it works.
Oh, and one more thing: he wrote some bullshit called 'Buckskin Brigades' which was this phony ass story about the exploits of some Deerslayer-like hero...well, supposedly. It was one of the last books I got at the tail end of my Hubbard fiction readings and it was godawful. I got it for free from a library and I still feel gyped..and it was part of a giant sack I paid a buck for.
1) Famed sci-fi author A.E. Van Vogt was quoted exclusively on the hardcover edition of Battlefield Earth as saying how great the novel was. Oddly enough, he later admitted to not reading it due to it's size. And honestly, he probably saved a few months of his life by not doing so.
2) 'Messiah' shows the last days of L. Ron Blubbard as being locked away in an expensive house as pretty much the gnome in the attic who never spoke to people in a current state of paranoia, fear, and bouts of meglomania. What makes this very funny is that is how exactly the main character of Mission Earth ends up in the novel: on the run from various agencies just like he ran away from everything in his life, a complete wreck and recluse with grandose notions of self-importance, and completely bonkers. In short, it's easy to see that Mission Earth is an autobiography of a pompous madman who is able to inject faux achievements and adventures yet unable to escape the fact that he's a toad who only got above his station by not being his execrable self. Not quite a fitting end to a waste of a human being, but it works.
Oh, and one more thing: he wrote some bullshit called 'Buckskin Brigades' which was this phony ass story about the exploits of some Deerslayer-like hero...well, supposedly. It was one of the last books I got at the tail end of my Hubbard fiction readings and it was godawful. I got it for free from a library and I still feel gyped..and it was part of a giant sack I paid a buck for.
