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A review by hellsfire
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard
4.0
I've wanted to read Battlefield Earth for a long time. I've heard of L. Ron Hubbard and I even liked the movie. What's stopped me from reading it has been its massive size. Luckily, on my Kindle, it didn't seem so daunting.
I loved BE up until the halfway point. What amazed me was the fact that the movie is basically half of the book. Suddenly, it switches tones and becomes something else and then switches tones again. Sadly, when it reaches that halfway point, it also loses steam.
It's strange. Because of the movie, I know how it's going to play out even with the differences between the two, yet I didn't care about all that. It was when I didn't know that the book lost me for a bit. It eventually picks back up again but that middle sags. Might be because it ended one climax and starts another.
BE has some things I don't like. First of all, there aren't many women in the book. What women there are there to be the damsel in distress. Because of that, the romance just doesn't seem real. It doesn't help that the women are barely around.
Another thing is sometimes the book got too technical with its explanations. Maybe if those were shortened, the book would have been a whole lot thinner.
The ending also became mired in politics and it seemed to be preaching. It felt like Hubbard's point of view
It's a shame the BE movie wasn't successful. I think if they tried it again and did it right, they could film a trilogy. It'd be wicked good.
I loved BE up until the halfway point. What amazed me was the fact that the movie is basically half of the book. Suddenly, it switches tones and becomes something else and then switches tones again. Sadly, when it reaches that halfway point, it also loses steam.
It's strange. Because of the movie, I know how it's going to play out even with the differences between the two, yet I didn't care about all that. It was when I didn't know that the book lost me for a bit. It eventually picks back up again but that middle sags. Might be because it ended one climax and starts another.
BE has some things I don't like. First of all, there aren't many women in the book. What women there are there to be the damsel in distress. Because of that, the romance just doesn't seem real. It doesn't help that the women are barely around.
Another thing is sometimes the book got too technical with its explanations. Maybe if those were shortened, the book would have been a whole lot thinner.
The ending also became mired in politics and it seemed to be preaching. It felt like Hubbard's point of view
It's a shame the BE movie wasn't successful. I think if they tried it again and did it right, they could film a trilogy. It'd be wicked good.