I was pretty excited about the idea of reading the entire dekalogy of L.Ron's satirical sci-fi series, Mission Earth, since volume one, The Invaders Plan, is honestly very good.
And volume two, Black Genesis, is interesting enough, and pretty fun for a sequel.
But then there's book three, The Enemy Within.
Because in book three, Part Twenty-Three, Chapter 9, Soltan Gris hires a prostitute to help him blackmail a hypnotized gay man named "Too Too" by videotaping him having sex with someone other than his gay alien lover. And after he does this and sends her home without having sex with anybody, you will almost certainly ask yourself, "WTF?"
Like, why did Soltan hire a female prostitute to have sex with none of the gay men he was recording having sex? She doesn't do anything in the scene except sing a song about kittens drinking milk, that he didn't even ask her to. And why did Soltan say he "hated homos" so much, like so so so so many times? And, honestly, why even hypnotize anyone into having gay sex when you could just hypnotize them into committing the murders that you're ostensibly only recording them having sex in order to coerce them into doing in the first place? And why even go through the trouble of orchestrating the blackmail when threatening to murder Too Too's mother already seems like enough? And, most importantly, why didn't Soltan just kill them himself? That would have taken him like 3 seconds and STILL not have cleared up any of the problems he set out to solve. Is this the satire?
By this point in the series you will be wondering what in life is real. Were any of these books really a best seller? Did anybody even proof Part Twenty-Three, Chapter 9, let alone finish reading the entire dekalogy? Am I maybe the first person in the history of the world, other than L.Ron himself, RIP, to read this far, only, I'm stupid enough to try to do it without the assistance of whatever fun drugs he was taking? Is it even possible to read all ten books without going fully insane from trying to parse what wikipedia tells me is 1.2 million words of this increasingly dizzying mess?
I don't know. And I'm pretty bummed that I might never find out. So I just wanted to ask if anybody out there has read all ten mind-bending volumes and could let me know if it's worth soldiering on?
by Not_a_Replika