To: Red Badger
The book is pretty good sci-fi......... The book had a novella's worth of story stretched by Hubbard into a very long novel. A master of the English language can say in two or three words what it takes an average writer ten to say. Hubbard took one hundred. I want back the part of my life I wasted to read it on a friend's recommendation.
10 posted on
05/04/2007 8:07:56 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
To: KarlInOhio
I want back the part of my life I wasted to read it on a friend's recommendation. I said it was "pretty good" not great. The Dune series is great...............
14 posted on
05/04/2007 8:10:07 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: KarlInOhio
A master of the English language can say in two or three words what it takes an average writer ten to say.That logic distills JK Rowling's 7 book "Harry Potter" series down to 10 words: "An orphaned boy finds his parents' killer and takes revenge."
29 posted on
05/04/2007 8:16:46 AM PDT by
CholeraJoe
(I don't give a rat's a$$ where in the world Matt Lauer is.)
To: KarlInOhio
The book had a novella's worth of story stretched by Hubbard into a very long novel.That is the best description that I have ever read about that book.
It was JUST okay....The whole "Come to Earth to plunder it's mineral wealth" really does not sit well with me. Lots and lots of minerals floating around in space. Easier to mine, already mobile, and you don't have to conquer the natives to get at it.
55 posted on
05/04/2007 8:33:23 AM PDT by
Mr. Quarterpanel
(I am not an actor, but I play one on TV)
To: KarlInOhio
Maybe Mitt was thinking of Gore's novel...
84 posted on
05/04/2007 8:57:57 AM PDT by
COBOL2Java
(The most dangerous place in the world is between Hillary and the Oval Office)
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