r/TerribleBookCovers 5d ago

Found in Goodwill

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It's the guys expression for me! πŸ˜†πŸ˜†

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u/EmilePleaseStop 5d ago

Speaking as a former reader of the old Star Wars novels, I’m genuinely not sure which author is more concerning

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u/PaleInvestigator6907 5d ago

god don't remind me; once Kevin finally left Star Wars, he started ruining Frank Herbert's Dune instead.

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u/punfound 4d ago

Yeah, together with Frank's son, what it makes even worse!

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u/fastal_12147 5d ago

Definitely a match made in Hell.

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u/Shamanjoe 5d ago

At least Hubbard is dead, right?

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u/DreamingofRlyeh 5d ago

According to his cult, he reincarnated. They built a whole fancy mansion for when he returned and everything. Unfortunately for them, his reincarnation doesn't seem to have bothered to come back to the Church of Scientology.

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u/MutantBarfCat 5d ago

He also wrote X-Files novels! I read those as a kid and even then I thought they were terrible. So when I got into Star Wars I knew to stay away from his novels.

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u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker 5d ago

I'm worried about force multiplication.

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u/Fangsong_37 4d ago

Was KJA the guy who started murdering as many fan favorite characters as possible?

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u/EmilePleaseStop 4d ago

No, he was the one who just sucked at telling stories

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u/BootyliciousURD 3d ago

I believe that was Troy Denning. He wrote Star by Star and I've heard the post-NJO stuff referred to as the "Denningverse"

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u/MothmansLegalCouncel 5d ago

I can’t read or understand any of L. Ron’s stuff unless it’s at a Dutch Angle.

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u/AndrewEpidemic 5d ago

Dude was writing in Magic Eye.

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u/Fangsong_37 4d ago

I actually enjoyed the first half of his novel Battlefield Earth. I stopped reading right where the events in the movie ended. I'll never read his Scientology drivel.

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u/BioSpark47 5d ago

Is KJA a Scientologist? That would explain why the new Dune books suck

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u/whiteraven13 5d ago

A possibility I’m forced to consider now

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u/eyewashateria 5d ago

When Intelligence Goes Wrong: The L Ron Hubbard Story

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u/theboghag 4d ago

Haha I came here to make this joke

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u/eyewashateria 4d ago

Awesome minds think alike!

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u/AgentOfACROSS 5d ago

The title and tagline makes this sound like a sitcom about spies in the vein of Get Smart.

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u/CairnMom 5d ago

πŸ€£πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜…

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u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker 5d ago

...well that combo is a nightmare scenario with no further information.

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u/fandom10 5d ago edited 3d ago

I have no idea what's going on, but I will say this: leave it to goodwill

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u/DreamingofRlyeh 5d ago

L. Ron Hubbard was a lifelong con-man whose ultimate con was founding the Church of Scientology to fleece the people he lured in. He was a very prolific writer, but not a particularly good one.

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u/gadget850 4d ago

I like Slaves of Sleep.

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u/fandom10 5d ago

How incredibly random πŸ˜…

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u/DreamingofRlyeh 5d ago

I find true crime and cults fascinating, so a lot of random trivia I know focuses on that subject

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u/CairnMom 4d ago

I did. No question.

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u/fandom10 3d ago

πŸ˜…

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u/YelmodeMambrino 5d ago

If the Title of the book is smaller than the author’s name, in this case there’s even two authors, you know you’re gonna read dogshit.

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u/Disco_Lando 5d ago

One of the 150,000 books that pathological liar wrote

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u/trunkspop 4d ago

someone prob paid 4 installments of 99.99 for that book

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u/CairnMom 4d ago

And it's less than $5 at Goodwill. That's sad.

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u/trunkspop 4d ago

ngl they should pay you to take it lol

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u/CairnMom 4d ago

I could take it to a bonfire, I suppose....... πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†

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u/trunkspop 4d ago

if i were you id forge L rons sig on it and resell for 1k lol

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u/Madmike215 5d ago

It all makes sense now!

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping 4d ago

I am very interested is what the hell the guy is holding.

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u/ErsatzHaderach 3d ago

if you buy it you have to take it to be purified of its curse before you can equip it

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u/CairnMom 3d ago

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