The Mind Game

This is a very very thinly veiled condemnation of Scientology It s also a fairly decent, quick read This ending is completely unsatisfactory no spoilers and feels like it was just tacked on to put a definite end to the story Other than that, pretty good.

A clear jab at cults religions spiritual systems that aim at controlling adherents for their own good The villain in this one looks a lot like L Ron Hubbard, but isn t, quite he s a melange of several different faces of the mind control game By the time you get to the end of this one, he doesn t look quite as much like a villain, either The villain bears strains of victim and the victims bear strands of villainy and nothing is clear The ending isn t happy It s not sad, either The entire book is [...]

I took my time reading this one because there s a lot of thought crammed into this unassuming little paperback It reads a lot like the movies The Conspiracy Theory and Blinded By the Light had a baby, but it s good for prodding one s brain into ruminating on things like ethics, self direction, selling out, faith, and the way you can present yourself to others to help you achieve your goals Good food for thought The story itself was mildly predictable, and I never really liked the protagonist, bu [...]

Me cost iniciarlo.Quiz s, porque los personajes no me llamaban la atenci n ni lograba empatizar Quiz s porque representan mucho de aquello que no me gusta Pero cuando comienza realmente la trama el juego de infiltrarse en el transformacionalismo agarra vuelo Es un buen documento para descubrir las diferentes tretas de lavado de cerebro y es entretenida Mi problema viene de que no me puedo comprar la motivaci n del personaje, cuando las circunstancias le muestran una y otra vez que su objetivo no [...]

An oddball book about a fictionalized version of L Ron Hubbard Sex, speeches, action, mind games Man, I was really into Norman Spinrad back then Go figure.