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Finished @Unca Walt 's The Cadet on Monday. Good, enjoyable read. Has my recommendation.
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Trivia: Every character was a real person. All events occurred as depicted; I only dramatized.

PS: The brutal taskmaster who was my editor (also the Deputy Director of Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures at the Pentagon) required accuracy -- beginning on Page 1 -- to the point of what was sold in Oldenburg taprooms in 1615 and how much it cost and how was it served.

I had ale at first. It got changed to cider. Three Munchen coppers. Wooden krugs for outdoors.

That was the first page.

LATE EDIT ADD: Oh, hell... I fergot to ask for a data point: Did you get chokey anywhere in the book? My current reader response is at 87% "yup".

One guy wrote: "You son of a bitch. You got me on the LAST PAGE!" :p:cool:

Now you gotta try "The Bat and Balloon War".
 
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Unca Walt said:
Did you get chokey anywhere in the book?
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If I came close to that it was on the last page.

That said, I belong to a small group who swap books they've read. The Cadet went to an elderly neighbor who doesn't get around too well. He called me yesterday and said it was one of the best books he'd read.

Where do I get the Bat and Balloon War? Thrift Books doesn't have it, Barnes & Nobel and Amazon have it electronically. I can do that but prefer hard copies when I can get them.

Edit to add: I came across this while trying to find it as a pdf:

www.sealionpress.co.uk

'The Bat and Balloon War' review

By Alexander Wallace Back when I was getting into the alternate history fandom in the early 2010s, I read many strange alternate history works available on Kindle. Many of them were franky not very good (we all cut our teeth in the alternate history fandom, after all), but there are a few I look...
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Williwaw by Gore Vidal pdf
www.gutenberg.org

Williwaw: A Novel

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I saw a photo taken by Gore Vidal from inside and behind -- two unbelievably beautiful young women (Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve). They were side by side, leaning out a window. Not wearing anything. Perfect hineys. (*sigh*)
 
I have not yet read this one, so I don't know yet if it is good, but it looks interesting and I have requested my local library to obtain a copy for me:


Edit: Amazon has decided to stop rendering embedded images of their products. Dummies. The book is Broken Money by Lyn Alden.
 
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pmbug said:
I have not yet read this one, so I don't know yet if it is good, but it looks interesting and I have requested my local library to obtain a copy for me:


Edit: Amazon has decided to stop rendering embedded images of their products. Dummies. The book is Broken Money by Lyn Alden.
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In this vid (podcast) the author talks about her book "Broken Money." Start around the 4-minute mark. Nothing to see, you can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

 
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I will erase -- just testing:

Odd... I was at first unable to copy the Amazon pic of "The Bat and Balloon War" and paste it here. Then somehow I was able to. I went to some random book on the bottom of my BABW page, and was unable to copy the pic.

Gonna work on this a minnit. (Later) Worked on it for a long time on a bunch of books. I cannot repeat my first success.
 

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Unca Walt said:
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Odd... I was at first unable to copy the Amazon pic ...
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This forum has a media mod installed that auto-embeds amazon books/products with an image and link. At least, it did until Amazon decided they didn't want to continue supporting image embeds (as of a few days ago). The problem is on Amazon's end.
 
Strange. Seems counterproductive to Amazon's desire for bidness.

And I wonder how the hell I was able to copy the cover pic of B&BW just that one time... and not be able to repeat the action?

Holy shit, @pmbug -- Just for grins and giggles, I entered "Amazon.com/Faerie Diamonds" and got this:
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Thass my darling wifelet, BTW.

OK... I tried to do the same with "Flashman and the Dragon" by my sainted George MacDonald Fraser:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ByI-qeO7L._SY445_SX342_.jpg

Well, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is weird. I get a different result. Still get the pic, but it is not "live" -- ya gotta click on the result to get the cover picture.

We gots a mystery here, @pmbug
 
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Try the Kelly Turnbull novels by Kurt Schlichter. He keeps begging the readers to not make them real. I've read them about 3 times so far. I also like The Eden Chronicles by S.M. Anderson. Yes, I like dystopian fiction. I consider it instructional.
 
Science fiction pioneer and inspiration to many a cypherpunk, Vernor Steffen Vinge, passed away Wednesday at the age of 79 in La Jolla, California. The five-time winner of the prestigious Hugo Award is perhaps best known for popularizing the term “singularity.”
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Vinge (pronounced VIN-jee) received Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1993), A Deepness in the Sky (2000), and Rainbows End (2007) as well as novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004). Perhaps his most well-known work, the 30,000-word novella “True Names” (1981) was an early exploration of cyberspace, transhumanism and hacker culture.
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I read A Fire Upon the Deep many years ago and enjoyed it a lot. I didn't realize he had written other books that also won Hugo awards.
 
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Don't click the "buy now" button. Click the .PDF download link.
 
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If you like American history, especially events surrounding WWII and that time frame I highly recommend Prequel by Rachel Maddow. I also recommend it for anyone who thinks Donald Trump is the first American politician who tried to overthrow the gov. He isn't and in Prequel you'll learn about what happened with a whole lotta politicos during the WWII era. It's well worth a read.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/prequ...e-70182ff02cbd#edition=66760774&idiq=56728354

If you enjoy history, you may want to give Ultra a listen.

www.msnbc.com

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | an MSNBC original podcast

Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors under crushing political pressure. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true...
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Required reading.

It shows the modern folly of depending on the midwits, or dull-normals, in elected office...to generate prosperity, wealth, technological innovation; to solve scientific, environmental and political problems...and, how? THROUGH LAW. We have a crisis - urban air quality in the 1950s. So let's pass a law ORDERING auto manufacturers to comply with arbitrary standards!

Initially they do, and there is some progress there. At considerable cost, if one can remember the autos of the 1970s, that had drivability issues.

The answer by the dullards in CONgress is, PASS MOAR LAW. So SECOND rounds of standards are forced down...now all cars are computerized. Initially an improvement. Next, order better fuel-usage standards. So they all become lighter (more dangerous in collisions) and then, all blob-shaped, for airflow.

People flock to exempted vehicle lines, not wanting these poorly-designed compliant cars. MOAR LAW - forcing the same standards on work trucks.

And the end result is, a $60k car that doesn't last, because of the electronic complexity and lightweight components. The government midwits' answer; FIFTEEN MINUTE CITIES.

That is no solution. Little of this IS a solution. There could have been some nudge or incentive to market these compliant cars but leave those who didn't want or couldn't afford, to not buy. Urban areas are befouled areas - in NYC in the 1890s, a hundred horses a day dropped dead in harness. Those carcasses didn't levitate away - someone had to remove them, and while waiting for the crews, those carcasses STANK.

WHILE people dumped their chamberpots in the street gutters, when they thought no one was looking.

Law solves little; but our system, which put private industry ahead of law and government, has broken down.
 
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The Law by Frederic Bastiat

The Law | Mises Institute

How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if
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Mario is doing a series on the book. In this post I'll post parts 1 and 2 along with a link to Mario's channel for anyone who wishes to continue with the series. Will also post another link for the book.

The Ills of Collectivism and the Assault on Individual Rights. A Reading of The Law. Part 1​


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The Attempt to Enrich Everyone at the Expense of Everyone Else. A Reading of The Law. Part 2.​


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Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@maneco64/videos

Book: The Law by Frederic Bastiat: https://mises.org/library/book/law
 
How about "The Camp of The Saints"?

I got it 15 years ago, and never got past the first chapter. But it seems it wasn't a novel, but predictive programming...or, someone in Davos is using it as an instruction.

Gonna restart reading it, especially since our hellscape scenes in Europe and North America keep on getting compared to it.
 
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