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One of the greatest investigative books of all time. What a story!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I‘ve read several Scientology books, from apostate memoirs to Leah Remimi‘s celebrity perspective to Dianetics (yep), but never an LRH biography. Thanks for the rec @Leftcoastzen ! What a weird dude. Like most cult leaders, he‘s a bombastic, charismatic, compulsive liar. But unlike others, he was a prolific science fiction author who started a religion to make dough. Scientology is his greatest fiction.

When you exaggerate your whole life, you have to keep going bigger.His religion is only half the story.Parts I enjoyed the most were the early pulp days in NY going to meetings telling tales of adventure w/ other pulp SF writers (A.E. van Vogt was an early believer) & the crazy days in South Pasadena with rocket scientist Jack Parsons who ran a OTO Crowley Black Magic sex temple ! Delusional , mean, & paranoid in the end , no surprise.

Cuz sometimes on a Saturday night, you want a little wine & the dirt!😁

WTF Goodreads? How the hell did you come up with that as a recommendation after reading a 1568 Treatise about swordsmanship?????