Robert Jordan

[MagicNakor]

Hubbard hasn't written anything that deserves to be called a classic. Battlefield Earth is just as bad as the movie was campy. I honestly cannot stand his writing. If I was forced to read either a book by him, and a book by Robert Jordan, I'd pick Jordan. But unless you know me personally, I guess that's not saying much. I'd have to disagree with your assessment of his Scientology books (I think it includes Dianetics as well?), QuietSilence! It's not really psychology at all.

The 10th book is horribly boring. I swear you're over 600 pages in before anything actually happens.

I don't understand how reading horrible books is fun. Unless it's so horrible that it subscribes to the train-wreck theory. I must admit I've read a few books based on that. But there's been far more that I've just scoffed and tossed it aside.

[imported_QuietSilence!]

i agree in Mission earth series but battlefield earth was not part of that series it was a book untoo its self

LOL i cant beleve u acualy got as far as #10 in mission earth i quit after 3

it kinda obvious ur not a SiFi fan or at least hardcore sifi this book is defanatly in the the top 10 best Hardcore SiFis of all time

and i miss stated about the sintology book i ment Dianetics didnt know there was one called Scientology thought that was the name of Dianetics and that the cult was called Scientologests

the Dianetics book is a great way to learn how u think and get rid of some of the programing we all grew up with

but the Scientologests just took it too far it was not ment to be the bible of a cult and it took psychology to the next step

u realy should read it but not for pleasher for knowlage it a text not a noval

[MagicNakor]

Not at all. I enjoy sci-fi quite a bit. I just cannot stand Hubbard. He receives my ire. Very few authours do. Robert Jordan is another one, and Laurell K. Hamilton is starting to get it too. For the love of all things holy woman, if you're write your books as plotless, pointless, purple-prose, stop marketing them as a supernatural mystery story!

He's written numerous books on his Scientology bullshit. I read through Dianetics and whatever Scientology named one was advertised with it on the Space station, but, as I said before, it's bullshit.

Some of them include:

The Emotional Tone Scale
Clear Body, Clear Mind: The Effective Purification Program
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
What Is Scientology?
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
Scientology: A New Slant on Life
Child Dianetics
How to Resolve Conflicts
Learning How to Learn
Self Analysis
Have You Lived Before This Life
The problems of work : scientology applied to the work-a-day world
Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science
Dianetics 55

And so on. There's 214 results for him off Amazon. I read them years ago, I think the year they were published, or the year after, so I can't quote it, alas.

This is the Science Fiction Book Club's top 10 list of "The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002"

1 The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2 The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3 Dune, Frank Herbert
4 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5 A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6 Neuromancer, William Gibson
7 Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9 The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

with the remaining 40 as follows:

The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Little, Big, John Crowley
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld, Larry Niven
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
Timescape, Gregory Benford
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer


I like lists.



Edit to add: Source

[imported_QuietSilence!]

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice ?

isnt this horror? i know some peps think horror is a sub section of sifi but i dont
just cant stand horror

lot of fantacy in there too but thats more understandable

and no lacky!!!!
no wiss and hickmen!!!!
no McCaffrey!!!! ... oh theres 1 from the mid of a series
no Eddings!!!!
no Salvatore!!!!!
these are some of the best fantacy wrighters of all time!

thats got to be there top seller list just for this month or somthing but it is an exelent list of good books

also i was talkin about hardcore sifi only

things like:

battfeild earth - hubbard
the lens men series - smith
two faces of tomarow - Hogan
robot series - asimov
RoboTech - McKinney (hard core but not too good)
Mutineers' Moon - Weber
Sector General series - white

do u like any of these type books? lots of detail of tech in the books based on true scince thou beond what we know how to do

[MagicNakor]

The horror genre is actually a subgenre of fantasy. And nope, this is the Sci-Fi Book Club's Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002.

Never said you have to agree with it. I don't agree with it in its entirety either.


As for your question, I'll have to come back to it another day when I'm able to think. Being fuzzy-minded isn't a favourite thing of mine, and unfortunately, it's what I am right now.