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I never read his biography, but I did try to wade through one of his sci-fi books...ouch. I didn't know about the whole Scientology thing back then, I just grabbed a sci-fi book off a library shelf.
I don't think I managed to get more than a quarter of the way through it before I put it down in dismay. These days I tend to leave a book easily if it's not grabbed me, back then, I really hated leaving an unfinished book...s it was very unusual for me not to read through to the end, even if it was pretty bad. The Hubbard book was unreadable. It was like reading a book written by a fourteen year old boy, with no discernable talent beyond a vivid and highly sexualised imagination. A Heinlein wannabe who didn't quite get what it was that made Heinlein so great.
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