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Research and Discovery Series Volumes
Scientology Books
October 13, 2012    
Just fine for the speed reader. Most would prefer to listen.
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Reviewed by yon8008 November 09, 2012
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Gorgeous on the Book Shelf

Just fine for the speed reader. Most would prefer to listen.

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Pros and Cons (optional)

Pros
These books look GREAT on a bookshelf!
With most of the lectures now available in audio format there is little incentive to reach for these, EXCEPT if you want to read some of the WILD STUFF that wasn't released on audio.
The 1994 releases are magnificent, beautiful spines, built in bookmark, glossy pages.
Cons
The full set of these has something like 80 volumes, but they were never released in their entirety. (It's not hard to see why.) The release up through volume 16 covers all lectures up to and part of the First American Advanced Clinical Course.
If you've listened to more than 50 hours of LRH's audio lectures between 1950 and 1952, you KNOW that the man was a showman. He would mix in hyperbole and candor, they were FUN lectures, EXCITING lectures. The transcripts don't give you that, or they could leave you wondering if he really meant it literally, the audio leaves little doubt.

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