Bare-Faced Messiah
The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

This is the amazing tale of the world's most deluded, and most posthumously successful, con-man and really gets inside the machinations of his strangely mendacious imagination. You almost admire Hubbard as he streams off one ridiculous lie after another from adolescence onwards so as to make his pla......more

Anyone that knows me can attest to the fact that I've lived a rather vigorous life. However, it seems tame, normal, humble, innocent and boring to compared to LRH. Hubbard was a childhood hero of mine thanks to Battlefield Earth which was somehow the second epic I read after The Lord of the Rings. I......more

i don't take the decision to give up on a book lightly. i may come back to it later and try again, but i honestly just can't be bothered with it anymore. I think that's the main problem I have with this book; it's not that it's bad, it's just so incredibly detailed that it's tiring. i applaud the au......more

I’ve read several Scientology books, from apostate memoirs to Leah Remimi’s celebrity perspective to Dianetics (yep), but never an LRH biography. 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......more

Excellent book on the life of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. He was a self-absorbed, narcissistic, pathological liar. He was certainly border line schizophrenic if not insane. It was a fascinating read and one has to wonder how one of the largest "churches" in the world can still defend......more