I can see that. As somebody who has suffered from mental illness, I can totally understand how one would want to be free of it.
I remember seeing seeing Dianetics in a bookstore years ago (like when I was 12 or 13 -- 20 years ago). Then I noticed the author was a sci-fi writer, and I thought... how...uhm...weird.
So I tried to read some of his fiction, and I was completely put off by Hubbard. Good thing. I think the Dianetics would have hooked me.
*shrug* I think I wasn't any crazier than average.
'Course, these days I'm on Paxil...
Hubbard's fiction sucked. What Asimov would call type 1 science fiction stories, adventure stories with a thin veneer of (not very accurate) science.
Good thing. I think the Dianetics would have hooked me.
Yeah, very good thing. It can be quite seductive...