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Title: Final Blackout by L. Ron Hubbard ISBN: 1-59212-055-5 Publisher: Bridge Publications Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A 1940 classic by L. Ron Hubbard
Comment: "Final Blackout" is a story about a war ravaged Europe that a small band of soldiers wade their way through. The group makes their way from the continent to England, and overthrows the military government there. However, the newly established government runs into trouble as a new foe moves in that threatens it.
This futuristic war novel by L. Ron Hubbard was first published in 1940 (serialized in 3 parts), in the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Nonetheless, the book could still be describing a post WW-III society.
This book reads quickly and is hard to put down for long.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Lesson in Integrity
Comment: I have read many many books over the years and have found that the type of book I like best is one that entertains and teaches without preaching.
_Final Blackout_ is such a book. The protaganist (known as The Lieutenant) teaches us a real lesson in integrity while the story is set in a classic Science Fiction manner "after the war."
The auhor's style is extremely easy to read and displays the ultimate test of good writing -- when I was done reading the book, I found myself wondering how the sequel could have been written.
I think you'll like this one ...
Rating: 2
Summary: Awful Pulp
Comment: You know one should be used to the Great Man takes on the system book by now. They are so numerous that they shouldn't even annoy anymore. Yet this book takes it to the extreme. The Lieutenant is the great one, the grand poobah, the rebel leader hero. Everyone else is either a loyal follower or an evil petty bureaucrat. Sadly Hubbard spends many pages reinforcing these thin characterizations.
Yes this book was written when he was young and it wasn't meant to endure. Maybe it can be read as a hokey 1940 pulp and a testament to the paranoia of perpetual war. It almost belongs more to the Vietnam era than WWII since all the generals and upper level military guys are selfish fools ready to sacrifice a million lives for their own glory (there's even the American Imperialists at the end) but I doubt the unadulterated praise for the Lieutenant would fly any better in Vietnam War America.
Either way it's a dull book full of cliches that would have been long out of print without Scientology.
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Title: Fear by L. Ron Hubbard ISBN: 1592120148 Publisher: Bridge Publications Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Villainy Victorious (Mission Earth, Vol 9) by L. Ron Hubbard ISBN: 0884042901 Publisher: Bridge Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Black Genesis (Mission Earth Series) by L. Ron Hubbard ISBN: 1592120237 Publisher: Bridge Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5) by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson ISBN: 1880418568 Publisher: Donald M. Grant/Scribner Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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