Title: A joke, writer vs character
Review: A real world person is caught in a character in a short novel by L Ron Hubbard at the same time as he writes it. He is abducted into the story - how? we really dont know. Sometimes he hears the typewriter clicking away; and sometimes not - then he has some freedom from the writer's plot to try and influence it. The novel is a pirate story 500 years ago written in the style of 1940 pulp, a kind of a parody, including in the start a funny scene about writer and publisher relation - but not an interesting story.The pirate story itself is outdated and the good idea of the modern charater in the historic person, trying to free himself from the bonds of the writer, never really takes off. Hubbard was a very productive writer and did not think twice about what he wrote, so the theme is not folded out. A shame, it is a good idea. - Nothing about Scientology which came later.
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