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    Aqua Letifer
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    Please love yourself.

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    • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

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      My guess is @Jolly has read this as it's been a part of the Baen free library for years. It's also free on Audible and Apple Books as well...

      Alternate history... A small modern (2000 AD) coal mining town in West Virginia with a population of roughly 5,000 (very similar to towns @Aqua-Letifer and I have spent big parts of our lives in) gets transported by cosmic mishap to Thuringia (Germany) in 1631 AD, smack in the middle of the 30 Year War. creating a splinter universe timeline.

      The modern town has it's own power plant, coal mine, several machine shops, and a modest agricultural base. It also has a new HS and Vocational Tech school... It also has a good number of Appalachian Coal Miners, Hillbillies, trucks, and modern firearms...

      It's an interesting story of a town that has incredible technological advantages, but is also vastly vastly outnumbered in the middle of one of humanity's darkest and most violent periods. A time when they have to balance their own American ideals vs the needs of the moment. The author's VERY pro-union attitudes come through a little too strongly for my taste, but it's an interesting story,.

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      @LuFins-Dad said in What are you reading now?:

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      My guess is @Jolly has read this as it's been a part of the Baen free library for years. It's also free on Audible and Apple Books as well...

      Alternate history... A small modern (2000 AD) coal mining town in West Virginia with a population of roughly 5,000 (very similar to towns @Aqua-Letifer and I have spent big parts of our lives in) gets transported by cosmic mishap to Thuringia (Germany) in 1631 AD, smack in the middle of the 30 Year War. creating a splinter universe timeline.

      The modern town has it's own power plant, coal mine, several machine shops, and a modest agricultural base. It also has a new HS and Vocational Tech school... It also has a good number of Appalachian Coal Miners, Hillbillies, trucks, and modern firearms...

      It's an interesting story of a town that has incredible technological advantages, but is also vastly vastly outnumbered in the middle of one of humanity's darkest and most violent periods. A time when they have to balance their own American ideals vs the needs of the moment. The author's VERY pro-union attitudes come through a little too strongly for my taste, but it's an interesting story,.

      Funny, I'm rereading this now. Do a web search for "Baen CD" and you'll find some links to the CD's they used to put in their books. Probably a half dozen of the follow-on books, plus several editions of the Grantville Gazette.

      While you're perusing all the available books, do try On Basilisk Station, the first book in the Honor Harrington series. Most of that series is pretty well written. Think Hornblower in space...

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        Saw this just now in the non fiction list of the nytimes bestsellers.

        Next on my shelf

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        • JonJ Jon

          I’ve got two audiobooks going, I’m switching back and forth depending on the background task. The Shirer requires a bit more attention be paid.

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          I have read his Rise and Fall of the Third Reich I believe 3 times. Like that book, this is also quite interesting and informed by his personal experiences as he lived in Paris from 1925 until the early 30s, and then later when he had to leave Germany.

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          This is a good casual read, he’s had an interesting life.

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          @Jon said in What are you reading now?:

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          I have read his Rise and Fall of the Third Reich I believe 3 times. Like that book, this is also quite interesting and informed by his personal experiences as he lived in Paris from 1925 until the early 30s, and then later when he had to leave Germany.

          Finished this a few weeks ago. Superb book, though long like his others. I think it was 44hrs on audio.

          Renauda - I think you’d love it. It covers the entire third republic from 1870 to its destruction in 1940, focusing most on the final 5-10 years.

          Only non-witches get due process.

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            Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

            Education is extremely important.

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            • HoraceH Horace

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              Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

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              @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

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              Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

              I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

              Please love yourself.

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              • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

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                Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

                I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

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                @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

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                Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

                I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

                I literally did not know that.

                Education is extremely important.

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                  I bought this again on Kindle. I first read it in about 1982, and I'm enjoying it a lot more this time. Not sure whether I'll keep going through all of them. That bit with the bloke turning into a shoal of fish rather jumped the sandworm for me.

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                  I was only joking

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                  • HoraceH Horace

                    @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                    @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

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                    Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

                    I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

                    I literally did not know that.

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                    @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

                    @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                    @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

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                    Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

                    I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

                    I literally did not know that.

                    Gotcha.

                    Yeah, he's out there a lot of the time. I think he's right about his opinions, just out there.

                    Please love yourself.

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                    • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                      @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

                      @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                      @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

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                      Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

                      I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

                      I literally did not know that.

                      Gotcha.

                      Yeah, he's out there a lot of the time. I think he's right about his opinions, just out there.

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                      Horace
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                      @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                      @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

                      @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                      @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

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                      Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

                      I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

                      I literally did not know that.

                      Gotcha.

                      Yeah, he's out there a lot of the time. I think he's right about his opinions, just out there.

                      I was being literal, he considers himself a writer and poet before a film maker. He thinks his writings will outlast the impact of his films, and he will be remembered mostly for them. He says so out loud. He was just on a podcast called The Gray Area.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                        I bought this again on Kindle. I first read it in about 1982, and I'm enjoying it a lot more this time. Not sure whether I'll keep going through all of them. That bit with the bloke turning into a shoal of fish rather jumped the sandworm for me.

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                        @Doctor-Phibes I reread dune about a year ago.

                        I think I’ve mentioned this but when I first read it as a young teen I fell madly in love with chani.

                        Though the recent movie’s chani didn’t do it for me.

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                        • HoraceH Horace

                          @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                          @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

                          @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                          @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

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                          Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

                          I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

                          I literally did not know that.

                          Gotcha.

                          Yeah, he's out there a lot of the time. I think he's right about his opinions, just out there.

                          I was being literal, he considers himself a writer and poet before a film maker. He thinks his writings will outlast the impact of his films, and he will be remembered mostly for them. He says so out loud. He was just on a podcast called The Gray Area.

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                          @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

                          @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                          @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

                          @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                          @Horace said in What are you reading now?:

                          image.png

                          Werner considers himself a writer and poet, before a film maker. I did not know that.

                          I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

                          I literally did not know that.

                          Gotcha.

                          Yeah, he's out there a lot of the time. I think he's right about his opinions, just out there.

                          I was being literal, he considers himself a writer and poet before a film maker. He thinks his writings will outlast the impact of his films, and he will be remembered mostly for them. He says so out loud. He was just on a podcast called The Gray Area.

                          Yep, I've heard him say that elsewhere also.

                          Please love yourself.

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                          • JollyJ Jolly

                            @LuFins-Dad said in What are you reading now?:

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                            My guess is @Jolly has read this as it's been a part of the Baen free library for years. It's also free on Audible and Apple Books as well...

                            Alternate history... A small modern (2000 AD) coal mining town in West Virginia with a population of roughly 5,000 (very similar to towns @Aqua-Letifer and I have spent big parts of our lives in) gets transported by cosmic mishap to Thuringia (Germany) in 1631 AD, smack in the middle of the 30 Year War. creating a splinter universe timeline.

                            The modern town has it's own power plant, coal mine, several machine shops, and a modest agricultural base. It also has a new HS and Vocational Tech school... It also has a good number of Appalachian Coal Miners, Hillbillies, trucks, and modern firearms...

                            It's an interesting story of a town that has incredible technological advantages, but is also vastly vastly outnumbered in the middle of one of humanity's darkest and most violent periods. A time when they have to balance their own American ideals vs the needs of the moment. The author's VERY pro-union attitudes come through a little too strongly for my taste, but it's an interesting story,.

                            Funny, I'm rereading this now. Do a web search for "Baen CD" and you'll find some links to the CD's they used to put in their books. Probably a half dozen of the follow-on books, plus several editions of the Grantville Gazette.

                            While you're perusing all the available books, do try On Basilisk Station, the first book in the Honor Harrington series. Most of that series is pretty well written. Think Hornblower in space...

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                            @Jolly said in What are you reading now?:

                            @LuFins-Dad said in What are you reading now?:

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                            My guess is @Jolly has read this as it's been a part of the Baen free library for years. It's also free on Audible and Apple Books as well...

                            Alternate history... A small modern (2000 AD) coal mining town in West Virginia with a population of roughly 5,000 (very similar to towns @Aqua-Letifer and I have spent big parts of our lives in) gets transported by cosmic mishap to Thuringia (Germany) in 1631 AD, smack in the middle of the 30 Year War. creating a splinter universe timeline.

                            The modern town has it's own power plant, coal mine, several machine shops, and a modest agricultural base. It also has a new HS and Vocational Tech school... It also has a good number of Appalachian Coal Miners, Hillbillies, trucks, and modern firearms...

                            It's an interesting story of a town that has incredible technological advantages, but is also vastly vastly outnumbered in the middle of one of humanity's darkest and most violent periods. A time when they have to balance their own American ideals vs the needs of the moment. The author's VERY pro-union attitudes come through a little too strongly for my taste, but it's an interesting story,.

                            Funny, I'm rereading this now. Do a web search for "Baen CD" and you'll find some links to the CD's they used to put in their books. Probably a half dozen of the follow-on books, plus several editions of the Grantville Gazette.

                            While you're perusing all the available books, do try On Basilisk Station, the first book in the Honor Harrington series. Most of that series is pretty well written. Think Hornblower in space...

                            I’m getting up to the Ottoman part of the primary storyline, and remembering that I’ve read up to the Polish Maelstrom the first time I read it and looked ahead to see how many new books they’ve added.

                            1. And I just discovered that Flint died last year, and there are no plans for continuing the series with any of the ancillary writers. Very disappointing.

                            The Brad

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                              Didn't so much read this one as listen to it, but it was quite a hoot. It's a mishmash of roughly the following:

                              • You wrap a wire around an iron nail and run a current through the wire, you can create an electromagnet. This works because there's a current running through the wire. Okay, so, instead of a wire, say you have a highway. And instead of a current of electrons you have a constant stream of souls with the power of free will, passing by other free-willed souls who are stationary on the side of the highway. This creates a kind of spiritual current, a kind of electromagnetism between our world and the afterlife.
                              • Daedalus isn't dead, he's just been busy elsewhere.
                              • The Minotaur is a place, not just a thing.

                              Seriously fun sci-fi. I was happy to learn that Powers follows a writing method similar to Ray Bradbury. Makes sense, too, when you compare how the plots of both writers unwind. There's a lot of "dream logic" going on.

                              Please love yourself.

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                                I haven't read a real novel in a long time, maybe decades. I read this one in two days (the original German version).

                                It was quite cool and inspiring. I had almost forgotten what it feels to read a novel and how to emphasise with its characters. This one was rather tear-inducing in some places (cried like a baby) but also strangely fulfilling.

                                This is a book about how we are shaped by our past, about what family is, about love. It's all super-relatable. Great book!

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                                  I'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.

                                  So....

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                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27109827

                                    Elbows up!

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                                      I have been looking at textbooks lately.

                                      There is not really a degree in the book. But that would have advantages over some school-bought degrees.

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                                      • George KG George K

                                        I'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.

                                        So....

                                        Screenshot 2023-12-23 at 12.29.36 PM.png

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                                        @George-K said in What are you reading now?:

                                        'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.

                                        Ahhh...screw it.

                                        Time to reread "The Shining."

                                        Interesting to see how his style has changed, and yet, remained the same over the last 40-plus years.

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                          This is excellent.

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                                          Please love yourself.

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