To: zeugma
Any list of unreadable books mustinclude Dianetics. Granted, it's not supposed to be considered fiction, but still, it's the worst thing I've ever read that comes to mind. Interesting choice. I've never read it, but at or near the top of awful books I actually finished reading was Battlefield Earth by Hubbard. A (thin) novella's worth of story spread over a forest worth of pages. A master of the English language can say in two or three words what an average writer says in ten. Hubbard took a hundred.
86 posted on
07/08/2014 9:24:04 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
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To: KarlInOhio
Interesting choice. I've never read it, but at or near the top of awful books I actually finished reading was Battlefield Earth by Hubbard. A (thin) novella's worth of story spread over a forest worth of pages. A master of the English language can say in two or three words what an average writer says in ten. Hubbard took a hundred. Funny. I thought Battlefield Earth was the only book of his that was readable.
88 posted on
07/09/2014 6:54:46 AM PDT by
zeugma
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