L. Ron Hubbard

>>9814205

I've only read the later stuff, Battlefield Earth and part of Mission Earth series. I believe these were all ghost written and released under his name as an income stream for Scientology.

They weren't bad. I lost interest in Battlefield Earth towards the end, but the beginning was quite memorable.

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posting the rest of that fabulous picture just to bask in its glory.

l ron hubbard had some fucking style.

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>>9814205
have you watched the master?

bretty good

I also cringe when people say he's written more stuff than any other writer. Actually look up his bibliography, there's not a lot there. And then also a lot of his later stuff was also ghost written.

I think maybe they count the pulp bullshit he wrote early on, that was re-printed in a bunch of different magazines, and they count each reprinting as a new unique story, that's probably where the scifags are getting this.

>>9814205
He's better than Stephen king

>>9814205
Just read Battlefield Earth
It's bad, but fun.

>>9815130
so is your mom.

Er...wait I thought you said fat.

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Battlefield Earth is only worth reading if you want to better appreciate science fiction that is actually well-written. The only reason it became noteworthy was because hordes of scientologist nutters went out and bought out all the copies of it at bookstores, making it seem like it was some significant milestone in the genre, whereas in reality it was just dull, tedious, generic pulp sci-fi with incredibly one-dimensional characters and a very, very poor understanding of physics (and science in general).

Hubbard himself was quite the character, I will admit. But kind of a shitty person who peddled false hope to desperate people through his made-up religion and fleecing them in return (not to mention all the embezzlement and fraud). His writing is unremarkable at best.

>>9814205
>Are any of his works actually good, or at least enjoyably bad?

what do you get if you mix Harlan Ellison with Donald Trump?