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  1. 07-17-2015, 05:29 PM #671
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    I've been rereading my Heinlein books. Currently reading Friday, one of his latter works. Love Heinlein.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Orville View Post
    I've been rereading my Heinlein books. Currently reading Friday, one of his latter works. Love Heinlein.
    Agreed - Stranger in a Strange Land is one of my favourites, first one I read and got me hooked...
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    Harry Turtledove, "Joe Steele" - just finished, a superb alternative history of the US starting with the untimely death of Roosevelt before he was first elected President. Fun read!
    Love Turtledove's alternate history works.


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    Excellent novel, the guy who wrote it started it as a blog for fun, and lots of folks from NASA and other space agencies ended up helping him with a lot of the science behind it. Last I heard, they were making a movie out of it - great read.
    I believe that Matt Damon stars in the movie. Sounds like it will be a better film than Gravity, at least.
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    Right now I'm reading Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger . It's the latest in a detective series based on a sheriff working in a small town in northeastern Minnesota. Apparently there's a lot of mischief happening in small, northwoods towns.
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    For the last couple of days I have been reading something that I have missed *terribly* for far, far too long. Bloom County is back! OK, so it isn't War and Peace, but it does my heart good to see Opus again.

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    I'm reading "Murderous Intellectuals" by John Maxwell. It is about the Nazis and what drove educated and cultured people to commit barbaric atrocities. Good read.
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    Just finished The Martian. Quite good. I had heard it was overly technical, but I didn't think so at all.
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    Bloom County is my all time FAVOURITE strip. So glad to see that it has returned, for however long that may be. I have not delved too deeply into the "why" of it, but it seems obvious that the fiasco that is the current Republican slate is the motivation.
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    I was/am a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes. Currently waiting for the complete works from the library.
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    Just finished the Tabasco book,some interesting stats I think,at the turn of the last century they were selling 20K bottles a year.
    Today they crank out 600 thousand bottles a day,Interesting to me
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