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What is Scientology?
Scientology Books
October 13, 2012    
This book is just too big, too heavy, too overwhelming and too massy. It was probably meant to impress but had the opposite effect – a turn off. The many pictures in it just add to that. It’s somehow like a big log with a lot of data pressed into it and enforced on the reader. It is very, very unhandy to use due to its ridicules size. I didn’t get one positive comment from people I gave it to.
To get data and to learn about Scientology and about “what is Scientology?” the single original books from L. Ron Hubbard are certainly much better.

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Reviewed by KA November 11, 2012
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Best used as weight

This book is just too big, too heavy, too overwhelming and too massy. It was probably meant to impress but had the opposite effect – a turn off. The many pictures in it just add to that. It’s somehow like a big log with a lot of data pressed into it and enforced on the reader. It is very, very unhandy to use due to its ridicules size. I didn’t get one positive comment from people I gave it to.
To get data and to learn about Scientology and about “what is Scientology?” the single original books from L. Ron Hubbard are certainly much better.

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A lot of information
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far too massy,

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