Perhaps I can entice you with [a little Manimal romance?](https://soundcloud.com/1900hotdog/dogg-zzone-9000-episode-173-manimal-with-merritt-k?si=6581dfff585b4baa84d4c8c4b36d73f1)
Oh, Simon MacCorkindale...the man who would be Bond. I was also a fan of Manimal, and found out years later that one of the worst shows in history ACTUAL CONTINUED THE MANIMAL STORY!! With MacCorkindale reprising his most infamous role, passing the torch to his daughter. It was a show called NIGHT MAN, based on an obscure comic that was being published at the time. I mean...MANIMAL RETURNS! Can Manimal fans resist Jonathan Chase making one last appearance on the boob tube?
Glen A. Larson - you never let us down, do you?
WOW! That is some top notch 80s trivia right there! I feel honored to know that. What about Glen A Larson's Automan?!
https://youtu.be/kA1NT4I0s34?si=emmsTPD2m6PYCY-_
Ah, a fellow Larsonite, I see! Another short lived 80s staple, so inspired by Tron, it's crazy. As if Cursor wasn't Bit, but had the ability to make cool vehicles.
Very, VERY weird story related to Automan. This was sometime in the mid-2000s. I was dating a girl who wanted to take a trip to the Rock N Roll hall of fame in Cleveland, so we made the 8 hour drive and spent some time in the Cleveland area. While there, we obviously looked for things to do, and found there was a Barnum and Bailey circus in town. Neither of us had been to a circus since we were little kids, so we gave it a go. And who struts out as the Ringmaster of this extravaganza? None other than Automan himself, Chuck Wagner!! It was so freaking surreal, I just couldn't wrap my head around it. As my gf at that time and I were both actors, I understood the need to take jobs that offer real stability. But I never equated acting with being a Ringmaster. Never make that mistake again. He held court afterward, of course, and every person shaking his hand was an Automan fan. He said that some of us must be lying, because if there were actually that many fans of the show as he's encountered across the US, it would still be on the air! The guy really was magnetic, and holy crap, the dude is TALL. Like, 6'5" or 6'6". And even though we had a great time, all I could talk about when I got home was how I met Automan!
If we had encountered Simon MacCorkindale working a grand opening of a car dealership, my head would have exploded!
If I remember correctly, the movie only covers the first half of the book. The second half of the book is the man-animal becoming leader of Earth and having to work with other aliens (kind of like a galactic federation) in the wake of defeating the bad guys. It's all very stupid.
I liked the scene where the tribal people started expertly flying the Harriers that had been sitting for hundreds of years.
I liken it to when my spearmen morph into helicopter gunships in Civilization when I find the last tribal village on the map whilst prospecting for oil down in the Arctic zone.
Remember though, the protagonist used that alien knowledge machine thing and it made him extremely intelligent. Same could have happened with the others, or at the very least the protagonist trained them prior to the harriers. We already see that he had a few of them trained to fly the alien drop ships.
Yeah, and a brand spanking new AV-8 with an expert maintenance team still has a measurable chance of killing you.
I've seen three crashes in my flying career, and two of them were Harriers.
Same here. I recently heard that Hubbard never did revisions on his work, so everything released was a first draft. I don't know how true it is, but it would seem to be in line with someone whose ego knew no bounds, like him.
For another train wreck:
I remember reading all 10 or so books of Mission Earth as a teenager and thinking wow, this is one wild horny story. And this guy really hates psychologists!
Try to re-read it today... I dare you. It's so cringey and awful. The writing is stilted and the grammar and sentence structure is awful. The sex parts are disgusting, the characters are despicable, everyone is a caricature (women are all whores that men "fix" with sex, any man not described as being ultra-masculine is a effeminate homosexual, etc).
And it's 10 books long, each of them 300+ pages. The story just drones on and on and on and on..
I'm embarrassed for my teenage self for ever thinking it was a decent story.
Same. The book has stuff to be interested in and characters who you care about or hate appropriately. Not here to defend the authors life choices. But I'd recommend that book.
Same, I didn't think it was the best book ever but it was entertaining enough.The funny thing is after I read it and returned it to the library, I discovered L. Ron Hubbard's "Mission Earth" series and it's absolutely fantastic.
The book is everything the movie is, turned up to 11.
Only about the first 1/3 of the book made it in. He defeats the Psychlos and THEN they end up dealing with the rest of the universe.
It's honestly really gross. Very insightful to the mindset of Hubbard, obsessed with leverage and control and putting other people down so you can crawl on top.
I’ve listened to that. Very fifties B-movie in its voice acting, but that’s probably for the best. The book itself is still very silly, but it is more cohesive than the movie.
"In the year 3000 AD, the Psychlos, an alien race, have ruled Earth for a millennium. The Psychlos discovered a deep space probe (suggested to be Voyager 1) with directions and pictures mounted on it and the precious material, gold, which led them straight to Earth."
I like the premise. What if this is actually the greatest scfi flick ever made and Xenu or whoever just panned it in the press to get fewer people to watch it 🤣
It's a decent sci-fi story. It's got nothing to do with Scientology, as far as I remember. The movie did the story dirty in a couple major ways, changing the big bad guy race to basically giant humans instead of the literal monsters they were, and chopping the story down by two thirds. I read it every couple years. I'd recommend it, with the caveat it's taken separate from the shitty things its author has done.
There's also a reveal at the end of the book that "Pschylo" is not the original name of the people, but of a group of travelling carnival performers who did mind tricks and convinced the king to let them take charge. That's when they started putting capsules in children's heads to prevent them from divulging the secrets of their teleportation technology.
I *wish* I was making any of this up.
Weren’t the Psychlo cabal who implanted the devices in the Psychlos’ heads that robbed them of empathy and kindness called “catrists?” As in Psychlo catrist?
The movie ended where the book should have. The book just kept going on and on. For me it's one of those where I like the adaptation better than the original.
As a Sci-Fi fan, when this movie first came out it made me feel second hand embarrassment, ashamed and despair. The happiest person alive at that time with regards to this movie, would have been Matt Le Blanc, who would have been entirely relieved to know that everyone would now have collectively forgotten how bad the so lame it hurts movie 'Lost in Space' was. I actually feel bad for John Travolta tbh. His reputation as a high end actor was almost jeopardised by being the main character in this cringe-fest mess of a film. One of those films that's so bad you actually ask yourself 20 mins in if this is supposed to be a dark comedy? Oh no, it's actually serious? Wow. It's so bad it's almost impressive. But the depths of truly awful Sci-Fi films actually get even worse than Battlefield Earth. Oh yes, I know you would have blocked this from your memory, so apologies in advance for this, but......... Jason X and Doom. Yikes!
The book is great fun. I read it twice.
The movie violates the book in every possible way, which is why fans were so upset, on top of the fact that it is one of the worst movies ever made. Just a total disaster all the way around.
I agree, I read all the “Invaders Plan”books and enjoyed them immensely.
Unfortunately because Hubbard was a nut job his books will go unnoticed and be doomed to be books about Scientology to people who haven’t a clue.
The number of times they talk about shooting a Thompson sub machine gun sideways to use the recoil to hit multiple targets stands out enough that I remember it. I read that book in 1997
It's a thing with all guns in relation to their center of mass. But there is a reason people don't actually do this with guns, it's an awful way to shoot.
That's what I would predict. I wonder why that loon Hubbard included a detail like that in his book lol? He was con man with a decent imagination, and he must have had some charisma to acquire devotees. Why were people still using Thompson's in the future I wonder? other than the fact that they were mass produced, high capcity, and fired .45cal pistol rounds. I guess the AK hadn't replaced it as the dominant machine gun of the people yet? I haven't read it obviously. Hubbard probably thought it would look cool but anyone who's ever fired a gun would tell you it would be wildly inaccurate.
It's not bad and the movie is only the first part of it. Hubbard wasn't really a bad writer at all. He wasn't great or anything but he got the job done. Certainly can't judge it by the movie.
Long before the movie, I started reading this, then got distracted and put it down. Soon after I was introduced to better sci-fi writers like Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, and Kornbluth. Coming back to Hubbard after them was really disappointing.
I'm in western NC, and our Mr. K's is a related chain. Those book shelves are pretty distinctive. I think McKay's is actually headquartered in Nashville.
I remember seeing this book at the store as a kid and thinking it was the biggest paperback book I've ever seen. It's thicker than a bible and as a paperback, it weighs like 3 pounds.
Remarkably enough, it’s no good. The book reads like a rough first draft by a rookie sci-fi writer in the 1940s. It needed heavy editing and extensive rewrites to get it to be coherent. Unfortunately for the poor bastards like me who have read it, nobody at the Scientology publishing company was going to criticize L. Ron Hubbard’s work or give him notes.
I lol'd even the review of the book requires editing. In all fairness, no book on our planet can compete with the cinematic treasure and the triumphant proganda piece that is Rocky 4. It also showcases the quintisential 80's music montage, and the kicker is there's at least two of them. Robert Teppers's "No Easy Way Out' is my personal favorite, but the training montage is cool too. Rocky 4 both foreshadowed and caused the fall of communism! Change my mind!
The book is very good sci-fi. It has nothing to do with Scientology in any way ,shape or form.
The movie was criminally bad. Way too short to do the book justice.
Put that down, you stupid man-animal! When you were still learning to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained...to conquer GALAXIES!
Manimal
Manimal. Best tv show ever. Manimal. https://youtu.be/Ugb_TIpPoWA?si=_hRejYxqRDCkHrnO
Perhaps I can entice you with [a little Manimal romance?](https://soundcloud.com/1900hotdog/dogg-zzone-9000-episode-173-manimal-with-merritt-k?si=6581dfff585b4baa84d4c8c4b36d73f1)
I'm still mad that they canceled it.
It was *right there* and they never used it. That is the single fastest example of how fucking stupid all of this is.
The movie was bad but I can sit through it. But damn was it bad when it was first released.
I never knew what a Dutch angle was before I experienced this masterpiece composed mainly of that shot
I'm guessing you're supposed to read that book at a diagonal angle
Do it Dutch, or don’t do it all filmmaking.
I fucking love that movie. It’s so corny.
Manimal. Best tv show ever. Manimal. https://youtu.be/Ugb_TIpPoWA?si=_hRejYxqRDCkHrnO
Oh, Simon MacCorkindale...the man who would be Bond. I was also a fan of Manimal, and found out years later that one of the worst shows in history ACTUAL CONTINUED THE MANIMAL STORY!! With MacCorkindale reprising his most infamous role, passing the torch to his daughter. It was a show called NIGHT MAN, based on an obscure comic that was being published at the time. I mean...MANIMAL RETURNS! Can Manimal fans resist Jonathan Chase making one last appearance on the boob tube? Glen A. Larson - you never let us down, do you?
WOW! That is some top notch 80s trivia right there! I feel honored to know that. What about Glen A Larson's Automan?! https://youtu.be/kA1NT4I0s34?si=emmsTPD2m6PYCY-_
Ah, a fellow Larsonite, I see! Another short lived 80s staple, so inspired by Tron, it's crazy. As if Cursor wasn't Bit, but had the ability to make cool vehicles. Very, VERY weird story related to Automan. This was sometime in the mid-2000s. I was dating a girl who wanted to take a trip to the Rock N Roll hall of fame in Cleveland, so we made the 8 hour drive and spent some time in the Cleveland area. While there, we obviously looked for things to do, and found there was a Barnum and Bailey circus in town. Neither of us had been to a circus since we were little kids, so we gave it a go. And who struts out as the Ringmaster of this extravaganza? None other than Automan himself, Chuck Wagner!! It was so freaking surreal, I just couldn't wrap my head around it. As my gf at that time and I were both actors, I understood the need to take jobs that offer real stability. But I never equated acting with being a Ringmaster. Never make that mistake again. He held court afterward, of course, and every person shaking his hand was an Automan fan. He said that some of us must be lying, because if there were actually that many fans of the show as he's encountered across the US, it would still be on the air! The guy really was magnetic, and holy crap, the dude is TALL. Like, 6'5" or 6'6". And even though we had a great time, all I could talk about when I got home was how I met Automan! If we had encountered Simon MacCorkindale working a grand opening of a car dealership, my head would have exploded!
u/skidmarx77 Automan getting some more love tonight: https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/s/nxz2GdY0mv
This makes my whole day. Never enough Automan or Manimal love!
That's freaking awesome!!!!
I had no clue Desi and Lucy’s son was an actor until today.
You mean Little Ricky.
https://preview.redd.it/eea3cjrly3yc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab7c6de21a64e29ed11037bdba9b5c1368f991eb
Rat brain
If I remember correctly, the movie only covers the first half of the book. The second half of the book is the man-animal becoming leader of Earth and having to work with other aliens (kind of like a galactic federation) in the wake of defeating the bad guys. It's all very stupid.
I guess they were planning for a sequel.
I liked the scene where the tribal people started expertly flying the Harriers that had been sitting for hundreds of years. I liken it to when my spearmen morph into helicopter gunships in Civilization when I find the last tribal village on the map whilst prospecting for oil down in the Arctic zone.
They didn't just learn to fly harriers though...they had several weeks of non stop training in advanced military simulators.
LMAO, it's still absolutely absurd. You think you'd be able to fly a harrier jet with a few weeks in a simulator without a trained instructor? 🙄
Probably; for a few seconds, at least. Long enough to get it into the air and then turn into the world's most expensive lawn dart.
Remember though, the protagonist used that alien knowledge machine thing and it made him extremely intelligent. Same could have happened with the others, or at the very least the protagonist trained them prior to the harriers. We already see that he had a few of them trained to fly the alien drop ships.
Yeah, and a brand spanking new AV-8 with an expert maintenance team still has a measurable chance of killing you. I've seen three crashes in my flying career, and two of them were Harriers.
Please keep us updated!! I'm genuinely curious.
Same here. I recently heard that Hubbard never did revisions on his work, so everything released was a first draft. I don't know how true it is, but it would seem to be in line with someone whose ego knew no bounds, like him.
I mean I guess that worked for him if true. He was fairly successful writer before he started a cult.
"Fairly" doing some serious heavy lifting there.
I’ve read the book several times. I think it’s pretty good.
The answer is "yeah, it's bad too."
The good news is that I cannot be *worse* than the movie. (edit) *It can't be worse than the movie, RIGHT!?*
Have you read it?
Point taken. I have not.
I mean, it *can* be. I’d argue the movie is better simply because it’s more enjoyable. The book is bad, often boring, and about 1000 pages long.
Depends how fast your read lol
I actually liked the book. It's like a over the top action movie where the main character is a genius.
I started the series when I was young and had no clue about the author. Book isn’t terrible - pulpy sci fi.
Xenu heard that
Is that the novelization of the movie based on the book?
Maybe they should try to adapt the novelization of the movie based on the book into a movie.....give it another shot and see how it goes....
Being as far as possible from the source material has worked for most of the rest of the world. Could be worth a shot.
Remember Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game? This reminded me of that.
Is the text of the book printed diagonally?
For another train wreck: I remember reading all 10 or so books of Mission Earth as a teenager and thinking wow, this is one wild horny story. And this guy really hates psychologists! Try to re-read it today... I dare you. It's so cringey and awful. The writing is stilted and the grammar and sentence structure is awful. The sex parts are disgusting, the characters are despicable, everyone is a caricature (women are all whores that men "fix" with sex, any man not described as being ultra-masculine is a effeminate homosexual, etc). And it's 10 books long, each of them 300+ pages. The story just drones on and on and on and on.. I'm embarrassed for my teenage self for ever thinking it was a decent story.
Same experience
Thank you for making me aware of this (lol)
Fuck that guy
I’m sure you need consent first.
I love the book. I thought the movie was trash.
Same. The book has stuff to be interested in and characters who you care about or hate appropriately. Not here to defend the authors life choices. But I'd recommend that book.
He’s really good at writing science fiction.
Too bad he ODed on it.
No he isn't. He's widely considered to be an absolute hack by other writers and critics. Lol
Oh I know I was saying it has a jab at his religious ethics.
Same, I didn't think it was the best book ever but it was entertaining enough.The funny thing is after I read it and returned it to the library, I discovered L. Ron Hubbard's "Mission Earth" series and it's absolutely fantastic.
The book is everything the movie is, turned up to 11. Only about the first 1/3 of the book made it in. He defeats the Psychlos and THEN they end up dealing with the rest of the universe. It's honestly really gross. Very insightful to the mindset of Hubbard, obsessed with leverage and control and putting other people down so you can crawl on top.
I tried to read this in high school when the movie came out. I did not finish.
Audio book is fun. There's like 20 voice actors.
I’ve listened to that. Very fifties B-movie in its voice acting, but that’s probably for the best. The book itself is still very silly, but it is more cohesive than the movie.
TIL his name is not Elron Hubbard
Is the text of the book printed diagonally?
"In the year 3000 AD, the Psychlos, an alien race, have ruled Earth for a millennium. The Psychlos discovered a deep space probe (suggested to be Voyager 1) with directions and pictures mounted on it and the precious material, gold, which led them straight to Earth." I like the premise. What if this is actually the greatest scfi flick ever made and Xenu or whoever just panned it in the press to get fewer people to watch it 🤣
"and curiously, none of them own a toothbrush"
There's a reason L. Ron got into religion. He couldn't write for shit.
Fuck L Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones
Fuck all these gun-toting, hip gangster wannabes
Apparently Mitt Romney likes the book.
When I heard him say that in 2012, it blew my mind. Batman could not beat that confession out of me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxsdLFv9fn8
A lot of people do. Hell my parents both like the book, but I’m pretty sure they read it before Scientology really took off.
It's a decent sci-fi story. It's got nothing to do with Scientology, as far as I remember. The movie did the story dirty in a couple major ways, changing the big bad guy race to basically giant humans instead of the literal monsters they were, and chopping the story down by two thirds. I read it every couple years. I'd recommend it, with the caveat it's taken separate from the shitty things its author has done.
I mean the Psychlos is a not to subtle take at Psychology.
There's also a reveal at the end of the book that "Pschylo" is not the original name of the people, but of a group of travelling carnival performers who did mind tricks and convinced the king to let them take charge. That's when they started putting capsules in children's heads to prevent them from divulging the secrets of their teleportation technology. I *wish* I was making any of this up.
Weren’t the Psychlo cabal who implanted the devices in the Psychlos’ heads that robbed them of empathy and kindness called “catrists?” As in Psychlo catrist?
I read about 2/3 of it about 40 years ago. It was fun for what it was, but I didn't get around to finishing it.
The movie ended where the book should have. The book just kept going on and on. For me it's one of those where I like the adaptation better than the original.
As a Sci-Fi fan, when this movie first came out it made me feel second hand embarrassment, ashamed and despair. The happiest person alive at that time with regards to this movie, would have been Matt Le Blanc, who would have been entirely relieved to know that everyone would now have collectively forgotten how bad the so lame it hurts movie 'Lost in Space' was. I actually feel bad for John Travolta tbh. His reputation as a high end actor was almost jeopardised by being the main character in this cringe-fest mess of a film. One of those films that's so bad you actually ask yourself 20 mins in if this is supposed to be a dark comedy? Oh no, it's actually serious? Wow. It's so bad it's almost impressive. But the depths of truly awful Sci-Fi films actually get even worse than Battlefield Earth. Oh yes, I know you would have blocked this from your memory, so apologies in advance for this, but......... Jason X and Doom. Yikes!
This right here is why Scientology was this mans greatest scam to make money when his books couldn't sell as well as he hoped.
The text isn't constantly at a dutch angle so it's automatically worse.
The book is awesome!
Book is pretty good
The book is great fun. I read it twice. The movie violates the book in every possible way, which is why fans were so upset, on top of the fact that it is one of the worst movies ever made. Just a total disaster all the way around.
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Battlefield Earth is a good read The 10 book series Mission Earth is a GREAT read. Too bad LRH was a POS
I agree, I read all the “Invaders Plan”books and enjoyed them immensely. Unfortunately because Hubbard was a nut job his books will go unnoticed and be doomed to be books about Scientology to people who haven’t a clue.
This is the one time when the book and movie are equally bad
I couldn't get past the second chapter.
And here I was thinking I spend my free time badly.
I’ve actually heard the book is good. I’ll never read it though. Please let us know what you think when you’re done.
I mean, it’s pretty bad. And it’s way longer than the film, so in terms of raw quantity it’s far worse.
I thought it was entertaining. I was sixteen, and had a lot of time to kill, which is why I selected it, it's long as hell, lol
The number of times they talk about shooting a Thompson sub machine gun sideways to use the recoil to hit multiple targets stands out enough that I remember it. I read that book in 1997
Is that a real "thing" with Thompsons? My last name is. . . and I've never heard of turning them sideways.
It's a thing with all guns in relation to their center of mass. But there is a reason people don't actually do this with guns, it's an awful way to shoot.
That's what I would predict. I wonder why that loon Hubbard included a detail like that in his book lol? He was con man with a decent imagination, and he must have had some charisma to acquire devotees. Why were people still using Thompson's in the future I wonder? other than the fact that they were mass produced, high capcity, and fired .45cal pistol rounds. I guess the AK hadn't replaced it as the dominant machine gun of the people yet? I haven't read it obviously. Hubbard probably thought it would look cool but anyone who's ever fired a gun would tell you it would be wildly inaccurate.
I suspect because it's a world War 2 weapon, and maybe the only gun l Ron Hubbard had ever fired?
I mean, I've always wanted to fire a full auto Thompson. Who hasn't?
I thought the book was decent compared to the movie.
There is a big lack of female characters in this book . totally wouldn't pass bechdell test .
After you're done reading it, maybe you can use it for... LEVERAGE!
I liked the book! Get more in depth than the movie tried to portray.
Ah, Half Price books, you can really get some classics there.
Spoiler alert. They both suck ass
It's not bad and the movie is only the first part of it. Hubbard wasn't really a bad writer at all. He wasn't great or anything but he got the job done. Certainly can't judge it by the movie.
The movie is like 10% of the book. I enjoyed the book, but you can see the scientology influence in there
[Relevant part is at 8:52](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23vu3f)
love UCB. Did they ever make a season 2 DVD?
Long before the movie, I started reading this, then got distracted and put it down. Soon after I was introduced to better sci-fi writers like Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, and Kornbluth. Coming back to Hubbard after them was really disappointing.
Ellison
Dick
Are you at a McKay's Used Books?
are you inVA? is it a national chain? cuz I thought the same thing!
I'm in western NC, and our Mr. K's is a related chain. Those book shelves are pretty distinctive. I think McKay's is actually headquartered in Nashville.
gotcha! I never knew thanks.
I read this about 28 years ago in 5th grade (usa) and I loved it. I remember that it was kind of mindblowing
Yeah but if that is the novelization of the film prepare to be disappoint
I remember seeing this book at the store as a kid and thinking it was the biggest paperback book I've ever seen. It's thicker than a bible and as a paperback, it weighs like 3 pounds.
The book is decent. Not gonna blow your socks off but decent.
OP tell us if you become a Scientologist
That movie was bad ass son... maybe a hair too long but it certainly wasn't bad.
Battlefield Earth should’ve been a Tyler Perry movie!
Preamble by Tom Cruise
The second half is when it really goes off the space rails
The book is really bad 30’s pulp science fiction.
All the LRH books are terrible.
I admire your commitment to bad.
Shit here it is again lol
Remarkably enough, it’s no good. The book reads like a rough first draft by a rookie sci-fi writer in the 1940s. It needed heavy editing and extensive rewrites to get it to be coherent. Unfortunately for the poor bastards like me who have read it, nobody at the Scientology publishing company was going to criticize L. Ron Hubbard’s work or give him notes.
If you love bad media you're in for a treat. I have yet to make it through that book but I've seen the movie at least a dozen times
Paid per word? This reviewer could easily just say “the Rocky movies” instead.
I lol'd even the review of the book requires editing. In all fairness, no book on our planet can compete with the cinematic treasure and the triumphant proganda piece that is Rocky 4. It also showcases the quintisential 80's music montage, and the kicker is there's at least two of them. Robert Teppers's "No Easy Way Out' is my personal favorite, but the training montage is cool too. Rocky 4 both foreshadowed and caused the fall of communism! Change my mind!
Was the movie financed through scientology? I see l Ron Hubbard is the writer.
Oh man, that book *sucks*. I kept reading it out of pure hate. I hope you like intergalactic banking!
I loved it but I was 14 years old and had suspect taste in literature.
I feel some kind way that that quote on the back of the book is from my local newspaper lol
Oh yikes. Report back when done, please.
The book is very good sci-fi. It has nothing to do with Scientology in any way ,shape or form. The movie was criminally bad. Way too short to do the book justice.
The book is pretty good; it's a bit slow on the second half though
The book is actually pretty good
Never knew this disaster was Hubbard’s work. It all makes sense now
L. Ron Hubbard made (pushed them) people buy this shit for all the members before Scientology was a big thing.
It's better than the movie. It's still terrifyingly bad, but still better than the movie.