I was at the used book store recently and saw a number of his books in the sci-fi section. They had a lot of Battlefield Earth copies which I saw at the dollar theater when I was in the Air Force and felt a dollar was too much, but to be fair a book shouldn’t be judged on it’s adaptation (Wheel of Time for instance). It’s just that with his books I can’t get past the whole Scientology things.
Just out of pure curiosity I do want to read Dianetics one day because that commercial was on a lot when I was a little kid. I want to see what all the fuss was about.
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I appreciate the concise response. Lol. For some reason the local book store always has a good chunk of his sci-fi but I never bothered to read them. Like I said Dianetics makes me curious due to all those 80s commercials
The story of Scientology itself is pretty interesting. It's a massive fraud in which Enlightenment is promised, but only after you pay thousands of $ "progressing" through succeeding levels until you reach the exalted status of "Clear," which is presumed to be something like having a seat at the left hand of God.
Has anyone actually reached that status (aside from, I presume, the cult founder)? It seems like if there’s a spiritual “endpoint” there would be a risk of victims getting there and going “…I don’t think I hear God like I thought I would.” Maybe I’m totally wrong, but it seems to me that as long as you can say “there’s still more enlightenment to come,” people will delude themselves into feeling progress, but once you say “okay, that’s it, you’ve peaked” the victim might start to wonder if they really feel like they’ve reached an enlightened state.
Maybe Tom Cruise has enough $ to attain Clear status. Leah Remini (sp?) bailed when she couldn't pony up any more cash.