Battlefield Earth is incredibly boring and internally inconsistent.
Despite the space battles that, among other things, involve a bunch of scots flying what is essentially a salvage ship rigged with explosives into the hangar bay of an enemy capitial ship and blowing it up. Or bugging the room of a master spy and then watching as he sweeps for bugs. You’d think that it should be rather exciting. Somehow it fails at it spectacularly.
The only decent part of the book is the initial world building IMO, where the initial group of post-apocalypse survivors have forgotten how to read english but still speak it, and the aliens never bothered to learn, so when the protag learns to read english from finding/visiting a library it kicks off the plot.
Battlefield Earth is incredibly boring and internally inconsistent.
Despite the space battles that, among other things, involve a bunch of scots flying what is essentially a salvage ship rigged with explosives into the hangar bay of an enemy capitial ship and blowing it up. Or bugging the room of a master spy and then watching as he sweeps for bugs. You’d think that it should be rather exciting. Somehow it fails at it spectacularly.
The only decent part of the book is the initial world building IMO, where the initial group of post-apocalypse survivors have forgotten how to read english but still speak it, and the aliens never bothered to learn, so when the protag learns to read english from finding/visiting a library it kicks off the plot.