Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes: > 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.) _Typewriter In The Sky_ isn't bad; an interesting premise, and he works it our fairly completely. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info