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Title: So bad it's mystifying
Review: Hubbard's self-agrandizing introduction is much more entertaining than the book itself, so do yourself a favor and stop there. Not only is the story flawed, completely unbelievable, and overly simplistic, it's just written badly. Suspension of disbelief is stretched past the breaking point early on, and it only gets worse. Had this book been a 300-pager, it might have worked because the premise is actually quite intriguing. Alas, apparently El-Ron's editors were complete frauds. No editing of any kind was present here -- and it is sorely missed -- so we have a grim tome whose only redeeming quality is never-realized potential. Please don't take that as any type of endorsement. The potential itself is not enough to warrant any effort at reading this book. And believe me, there's considerable effort called for. You actually have to work at finishing this thing. Don't bother. It's just plain bad.
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