DMSMH: No longer on bookshelves?

[uniquemand]

Have any of you noticed at your local bookstores that DMSMH is no longer in the self-help section or even sold? I look for it when I'm in bookstores, and always encourage them to cease carrying it.

I'm wondering if this is just a local thing or if it's going viral.

 

[NoName]

I haven't seen it around here in forever. I went to a few to look for it and ended up getting it on Amazon. This was fairly recent - before my brief time in. At first, I didn't want to go to the Org because I'd heard about high pressure tactics and I told my in friend that I would read it if there was a way to procure it without buying it from the Co$. I wanted to read it and decide for myself without the hard sell.

Well, I ended up getting involved briefly anyway, but that is another story entirely.

 

[uniquemand]

I haven't seen it around here in forever. I went to a few to look for it and ended up getting it on Amazon. This was fairly recent - before my brief time in. At first, I didn't want to go to the Org because I'd heard about high pressure tactics and I told my in friend that I would read it if there was a way to procure it without buying it from the Co$. I wanted to read it and decide for myself without the hard sell.

Well, I ended up getting involved briefly anyway, but that is another story entirely.

Interesting. I read it without any knowledge of it from commercials or campaigns or internets (world-wide-web didn't exist in 1988). I had a friend who saw my interest in science fiction, at college, who asked me if I'd read Hubbard, and then because I was interested in how authors created their characters, I became interested in psychology. I wasn't interested, at that time, from a "therapist" perspective, but from a story-teller's perspective. He recommended Hubbard's Dianetics because it showed how an author thought the human mind worked. That's why I bought it and what my interest was.

 

[EP - Ethics Particle]

Interesting. I read it without any knowledge of it from commercials or campaigns or internets (world-wide-web didn't exist in 1988). I had a friend who saw my interest in science fiction, at college, who asked me if I'd read Hubbard, and then because I was interested in how authors created their characters, I became interested in psychology. I wasn't interested, at that time, from a "therapist" perspective, but from a story-teller's perspective. He recommended Hubbard's Dianetics because it showed how an author thought the human mind worked. That's why I bought it and what my interest was.

Pretty much the same with me - I just bought DMSH around 1988 from a book kiosk on Block Island to have something to read on vacation! Strangely enough, I had no knowledge of Hubbard at all then...guess I was lax in keeping up with current events!

 

[Idle Morgue]

Welcome to PT! LOL - just kidding - that book has not been in bookstores for years and years...no demand! The world is hip to Scientology and Diamentics being an evil cult! A scam!!

If you hurry - you may be able to salvage my copy - it is rotting in the local DUMP! JK...JK!!

 

[ClearedSP]

I'm thinking it's market forces at work. When you have more copies of a book than you have readers, you start finding that book on Amazon for one cent, as is the case with DMSMH. Those who prefer the audio CD of it can get that for one cent as well. Your local library probably has copies for pocket change. Anyone who's clever enough to keep a bricks and mortar bookstore alive these days, should be able to see that it's not going to sell for them, and shouldn't be taking up valuable inventory $ + space.

 

[Kookaburra]

The last LRH book I saw in a bookstore was about 20 years ago. It was one of the Mission Earth series on a clearance table drastically marked down to try and get rid of it.

 

[uniquemand]

Pretty much the same with me - I just bought DMSH around 1988 from a book kiosk on Block Island to have something to read on vacation! Strangely enough, I had no knowledge of Hubbard at all then...guess I was lax in keeping up with current events!

If only we'd known! Hubbard was already history, except you couldn't find that history very easily, back then.

Welcome to PT! LOL - just kidding - that book has not been in bookstores for years and years...no demand! The world is hip to Scientology and Diamentics being an evil cult! A scam!!

If you hurry - you may be able to salvage my copy - it is rotting in the local DUMP! JK...JK!!

I saw DMSMH probably up until the end of 2010 in local bookstores and at Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc., as well as "What is Scientology" and "Fundamentals of Thought" occasionally.

I'm thinking it's market forces at work. When you have more copies of a book than you have readers, you start finding that book on Amazon for one cent, as is the case with DMSMH. Those who prefer the audio CD of it can get that for one cent as well. Your local library probably has copies for pocket change. Anyone who's clever enough to keep a bricks and mortar bookstore alive these days, should be able to see that it's not going to sell for them, and shouldn't be taking up valuable inventory $ + space.

Definitely market forces, I agree. Which means "the message" has gotten into "the medium".

The last LRH book I saw in a bookstore was about 20 years ago. It was one of the Mission Earth series on a clearance table drastically marked down to try and get rid of it.

Interesting. I saw DMSMH and other books on shelves until very recently. In fact, had it not been in Waldenbooks, one day, when I was walking by, I would probably never have bought it (I think I actually shoplifted it, anyway). I remembered my friend in college talking about it, so I was interested.

 

[guanoloco]

You stage 4 needle cases, you've got it all Ron-way round!

It's because he's so hot and in demand he's sold out!

What a bunch of Ronsense!

 

[pineapple]

Last time I noticed DMSMH in a bookstore was about a year and a half ago, in a used book store which has since closed. (Too bad. It was my favorite book store.) It was in their science-fiction section! I didn't know if it was there by mistake or put there intentionally. I considered asking about this, but ended up not doing it; didn't feel like getting into it at the time.

 

[GoNuclear]

The amazing thing about DMSMH ... the number of people in Scientology who NEVER actually finished reading it, but, who went on to rave about it and encourage others to read it ... thinking, of course, that there was something wrong with THEMSELVES for not finishing it, for finding it confusing, for disagreeing with the endless abortionistic nonsense, or for finding it, style-wise, a total crashing bore. And, of course, for all of us in that catagory, I just had to write a parody tune about that book sometime back, which I will repost.

Pete


DMSMH
(parody of Strangers in the Night)

DMSMH, not worth one glance at,
Reading it at night,
There’s little chance that, you’ll be still awake,
After a page or two.

Something in that book, is just so boring,
Something in that book, will have you snoring,
Something in that book,
Is meant to con you, too!

DMSMH, the flakey people,
Who hack DMSMH,
Up to the tear-page,
And then just like a retard,
Mail in that tear-card,
Soon have clams come out their way,
To love-bomb all their doubts away and -

Then they get on course, and become Rondroids,
They become ass-pains, far worse than hemorrhoids,
Fished by LRH,
With DMSMH.

(instrumental)

Soon have clams come out their way
To love-bomb all their doubts away and -

Then they get on course, and become Rondroids,
They become ass-pains, far worse than hemorrhoids,
Fished by LRH,
With DMSMH.

Doobie doobie do,
Do doobie da da,
Da da doobie da …


Here's the original to sing along to!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF09jJlJCU0

 

[Enthetan]

DMSMH's Amazon "best seller" rank is #60,729

The Amazon page says "Only 11 left in stock (more on the way).", which indicates that Amazon only buys tiny batches of the book at a time.

 

[smartone]

Last time I saw it was a couple of years ago in Waterstone's (chain in UK).

I went there to get Christmas presents last year and didn't see any in the self-help section. :confused2:

Amazon UK has 4 left.

 

[TrevAnon]

Bookshelves are soooo 1990...

http://www.scientology-london.com/dianetics/

(This is a critics site )

 

[Lulu Belle]

For anyone who hasn't read it, here's an oldie-but-goodie.

It's an article the San Diego Union published in 1990 as to how the church made Hubbard's books into "best sellers".

http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/sandiego-books031590.htm

 

[Idle Morgue]

Yes - been like that for a LONG time...when I was in - I would try to find Diarreha by El Con Hubbard and not only was that book on the bookshelves when bookstores were the hot item - but none of his other crap!!

I checked our local Library - and there is 1 book Fun-da-mentals of Thought, 1 book - (can't remember) and nothing else. Hubbard is known as a Con Man in the Library system and they do surveys of what people want - the world does not want his crap!!

There were like 26 copies of Lawrence Wright's book "going clear", 18 copies of Janet Reitman's book - "Inside Scientology" - can't remember how many copies of Blown for Good and a sundry of other choice SP literature pieces and documentaries about the cult!!

 

[Idle Morgue]

The amazing thing about DMSMH ... the number of people in Scientology who NEVER actually finished reading it, but, who went on to rave about it and encourage others to read it ... thinking, of course, that there was something wrong with THEMSELVES for not finishing it, for finding it confusing, for disagreeing with the endless abortionistic nonsense, or for finding it, style-wise, a total crashing bore. And, of course, for all of us in that catagory, I just had to write a parody tune about that book sometime back, which I will repost.

Pete


DMSMH
(parody of Strangers in the Night)

DMSMH, not worth one glance at,
Reading it at night,
There’s little chance that, you’ll be still awake,
After a page or two.

Something in that book, is just so boring,
Something in that book, will have you snoring,
Something in that book,
Is meant to con you, too!

DMSMH, the flakey people,
Who hack DMSMH,
Up to the tear-page,
And then just like a retard,
Mail in that tear-card,
Soon have clams come out their way,
To love-bomb all their doubts away and -

Then they get on course, and become Rondroids,
They become ass-pains, far worse than hemorrhoids,
Fished by LRH,
With DMSMH.

(instrumental)

Soon have clams come out their way
To love-bomb all their doubts away and -

Then they get on course, and become Rondroids,
They become ass-pains, far worse than hemorrhoids,
Fished by LRH,
With DMSMH.

Doobie doobie do,
Do doobie da da,
Da da doobie da …


Here's the original to sing along to!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF09jJlJCU0

Oh I CRINGE to admit this - but I must get this overt/ withhold off - I never read Dianetics but tried to SELL them at local witch fairs!! Never sold one book!! Oh - CRINGE!! Yes, then went up the Bridge to Nowhere - fell off into the deep abyss mind fuck that is Scientology but debbie cook's e-mail woke me up!! thank you Flag's Captain, Debbie Cook, a damn clever SP to send that out!!

Heh - my needle is floating!! Wow - It felt good to get that off and be even clearer of the cult's tactics! WTF - would I sell a book I never read? WTF indeed!!

 

[Lohan2008]

Last time I was in the used bookstore, I bought up ALL the remaining (6) CofS books for $5.
I also let the shop owner know about how many EX-scilon books were available.

 

[David C Gibbons]

All I can say to this question is: One can only hope!


Down with Scientology!