On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:55:28PM -0700, Frank Mayhar <frank at exit.com> wrote: > Robert Wood wrote: > > I hate flying and it was the only book I had with me. What can I say? The > > middle third is OK/pretty good, but the rest is a waste of time. I don't > > think I'll ever even pick up (much less read) another of his books. > I'm ashamed to say that I, too, finished that book. What can I say, it was > long ago and I was young. I had those excuses and I still had better sense. Hrmph. :P > I've since learned that all those books that claim to be by "L. Ron Hubbard" > are actually by various and sundry in Scientology and are only attributed to > him. They keep them on the best-seller lists by making it the duty of each > Scientologist to buy as many as possible. Take a look some time, every one > of those books is published by a company called "Bridge Publications." It's > a front for Scientology. This is true to a certain extent, but there are books that are really by Hubbard. You just have to filter out the ones that were published before he died. The rest are of questionable authenticity. (They are ALL of questionable quality.) -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)