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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 12/17/09 1:22 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:   
   > And I'm certain Battlefield Earth wasn't _nearly_ as bad as the film.   
      
   If you subtract the ostinato hatred of scientific psychology (remember,   
   Scientology started out as psychological quackery, and only became a   
   "religion" when threatened with prosecution for practicing medicine   
   without a license), what's left is OK, if you don't mind that what's   
   left is roughly halfway between Tarzan and "Armageddon 2419 A.D.",   
   already over half a century out of date.   
      
   "Mission Earth" (the ten-volume thing) is actually more fun. It has the   
   same manias, and more, but the residual content has at least progressed   
   to the overall style of "Astounding". It may be funnier if you're a New   
   Yorker.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "The blind rulers of Logres   
   Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."   
      -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)