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Magus, all the best to you my friend, we are all coming into rough times, the new peppers are going to have a hard time getting up to speed, I know because in all my 80 years on this planet, I've never seen the bad stuff going on like it is now, we've adopted some dear friends down the road, good people going through very bad times. We couldn't do the things we've been able to do now if we hadn't made a lot of sacrifices to begin with, we were really living on a thin line.
 
The razor's edge... but Magus is tough, he'll get through it, possibly with a little help. :confused:

Many here have seen hard times, perseverance is the key to survival... :oops:

Hey, Magus, I dug up this video for ya... think of the dudes in the video as scumbag politicians, and Maren Morris as the average taxpayer, lol. Hang in there, bud! I'll drink a beer in your honor after I make a town run today... :cool:

Rich
 
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Magus is still working on things. He says hello, he's slowly building back up where he can gets his duck in a row, he misses you, and to those who contributed to the cause, his utmost thanks. It's good to see people still care about people beyond their own backyard. It's kind of heartwarming. Keep on preppin! It's coming! He'll try and be back around mid april.
 
I'm sending him a box, which includes some of my things that I have better versions of, and some new things that he can't get anyway. It includes a ebook reader loaded with ebooks for him to read while he's stuck without the internet, a drawing tablet for when he gets his computer back. I'd love suggestions on what books to load onto this thing. He does writing so I'm sending him some good books on the writing craft.
 
AMC said:
I'd love suggestions on what books to load onto this thing.
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It is difficult to recommend books when you don't know someone's tastes. What one person likes, another may hate.

But FWIW, some of my favorites are:

Wool, by Hugh Howey (oftentimes called "Wool Omnibus", because it was initially released as a series, then was later pulled together into a novel)
The Breach, by Patrick Lee ... Ghost Country, same author ... Deep Sky, same author (this is a three book series)
Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven
West of Eden, by Harry Harrison
The Blue Nowhere, by Jeffery Deaver
One Second After, by William R. Forstchen
The Martian, by Andy Weir
Ice Hunt, by James Rollins
Amazonia, by James Rollins
Subterranean, by James Rollins
The Kite Runner, by Kahled Hosseni
A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
The entire "Sigma Force" series, by James Rollins
Fragment, by Warren Fahy
The Valley of Horses, by Jean M. Auel (however, you should probably read Clan of the Cave Bear first, and that can be long and tedious in places)
The Ice Limit, by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
The Codex, by Douglas Preston
Burial Ground, by Michael McBride
The Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins (I liked this first one in the series, but they went downhill fast after that IMHO)
 
Good list Haertig. The One Second After series are good reads. He has some others that aren't bad either.
Rollins and Crichton are good authors. So is Jean Auel. The Clan of the Cave Bear series are long but IMO interesting.
Other authors I enjoy are Tom Clancy, his older stuff in particular. J. R. R. Tolkien has a long list of good reads.
 
You and I have very similar tastes in literature @Haertig !
I'd add the Pendergast Series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Stand and Under the Dome by Stephen King (hate the guys politics, but enjoy his novels) .

And you don't have to break the bank buying the e versions of books either. If you check out Project Gutenberg, there are thousands of e book versions of classic literature.

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
 
Other books:

I like the concept of "alternate world", where you step through some type of portal and find yourself on an alternate Earth - maybe in the past, maybe just one that developed differently than our world, etc. I have not found a great book in this category yet. A couple of average ones I list below. They are not bad books, but not what I would term "top tier". Still a lot of fun to read though.

The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi (my friend hated it, I liked it - just goes to show you people have different tastes)
Wildside, by Steven Gould
Outland, by Dennis E. Taylor
Ghost Country, by Patrick Lee (I already mentioned this one above, it's good)
Tunnel in the Sky, by Robert E. Heinlein (I read this one so long ago that I've totally forgotten if it was good or bad, I just remember the alternate world portal concept)

If anyone knows any good "portal to an alternate world" books - like where you step through to an Earth uninhabited by man, or sparsely inhabited - let me know!

Other fun books are:

Temple, by Matthew Reilly
Departure, by A. G. Riddle
Congo, by Michael Crichton
Cyber Storm, by Matthew Mather (may he rest in peace, he was fairly recently killed in a car accident I believe)
Storm Front, by Jim Butcher (the audiobook has a great narrator, many say it is better than the written novel - I listened to the audiobook, the narrator does indeed nail the character perfectly - if you've never liked or tried audiobooks before, this is a good one to start with)
Surveyor and Trekker, by James S. Peet (alternate world books, first books by a new author, I initially did not like, but over time I've rethought my early dislike and that is turning more towards a like - I can't explain this)

Oh, another fun audiobook:

In a Sunburned Country, written and narrated by Bill Bryson (usually authors narrating their own books is bad, but this one is good)
 
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The Valley of Horses, by Jean M. Auel (however, you should probably read Clan of the Cave Bear first, and that can be long and tedious in places)
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I saw Jean Auel at the Tattered Cover years ago and got all of my books signed. I should read them again. Yes, can be long and tedious, but Jean Auel did lots of research on medicinal plants and other things.
 
Buffalo said:
You and I have very similar tastes in literature @Haertig !
I'd add the Pendergast Series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Stand and Under the Dome by Stephen King (hate the guys politics, but enjoy his novels) .

And you don't have to break the bank buying the e versions of books either. If you check out Project Gutenberg, there are thousands of e book versions of classic literature.

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
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That is a very good site!
Also, I think it would be fun to throw in a good chick-flick like Chocolate (awful book) or Pride and Prejudice (excellent book). It's like y'all have a Y chromosome or something 😂
 
Weedygarden said:
I saw Jean Auel at the Tattered Cover years ago and got all of my books signed. I should read them again. Yes, can be long and tedious, but Jean Auel did lots of research on medicinal plants and other things.
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It took me a couple of tries to get into the first book, Clan of the Cave Bear. But finally it took and I read through it at normal speed. There WAS a lot of plant medicine in it, in too much detail for me. It was interesting for the first thousand plants, but got a bit boring after that. The second book was much more to my liking. Except all the parts where the main characters were following their hormones more than their brains. I kind of skimmed those parts. I suppose that's a sign that I'm getting old! I guess Jean Auel may have been a little "frustrated" while writing these books, and that kind of showed through in places. But they were good books none the less. I have not finished the series yet. I've been stuck at about 1/3 of the way through Plains of Passage for years now. Decades actually.
 
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It took me a couple of tries to get into the first book, Clan of the Cave Bear. But finally it took and I read through it at normal speed. There WAS a lot of plant medicine in it, in too much detail for me. It was interesting for the first thousand plants, but got a bit boring after that. The second book was much more to my liking. Except all the parts where the main characters were following their hormones more than their brains. I kind of skimmed those parts. I suppose that's a sign that I'm getting old! I guess Jean Auel may have been a little "frustrated" while writing these books, and that kind of showed through in places. But they were good books none the less. I have not finished the series yet. I've been stuck at about 1/3 of the way through Plains of Passage for years now. Decades actually.
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I loved that story she created. I was 13 , traveling to Maine and I remember picking up the valley if horses at either Denver's or Chicago. I didnt realize the clan of the cave bear was the first book at the time.
I havent finished the last book. I started getting bored with all the detailed rituals over and over. I kept wanting her to have a run in with her son and old clan. I should give it another go n just skip those parts that got too repetitive.
 
Haertig said:
It took me a couple of tries to get into the first book, Clan of the Cave Bear. But finally it took and I read through it at normal speed. There WAS a lot of plant medicine in it, in too much detail for me. It was interesting for the first thousand plants, but got a bit boring after that. The second book was much more to my liking. Except all the parts where the main characters were following their hormones more than their brains. I kind of skimmed those parts. I suppose that's a sign that I'm getting old! I guess Jean Auel may have been a little "frustrated" while writing these books, and that kind of showed through in places. But they were good books none the less. I have not finished the series yet. I've been stuck at about 1/3 of the way through Plains of Passage for years now. Decades actually.
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I may have just quit that book. I'll have to look when I get home.
 
Haertig said:
It is difficult to recommend books when you don't know someone's tastes. What one person likes, another may hate.

But FWIW, some of my favorites are:

Wool, by Hugh Howey (oftentimes called "Wool Omnibus", because it was initially released as a series, then was later pulled together into a novel)
The Breach, by Patrick Lee ... Ghost Country, same author ... Deep Sky, same author (this is a three book series)
Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven
West of Eden, by Harry Harrison
The Blue Nowhere, by Jeffery Deaver
One Second After, by William R. Forstchen
The Martian, by Andy Weir
Ice Hunt, by James Rollins
Amazonia, by James Rollins
Subterranean, by James Rollins
The Kite Runner, by Kahled Hosseni
A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
The entire "Sigma Force" series, by James Rollins
Fragment, by Warren Fahy
The Valley of Horses, by Jean M. Auel (however, you should probably read Clan of the Cave Bear first, and that can be long and tedious in places)
The Ice Limit, by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
The Codex, by Douglas Preston
Burial Ground, by Michael McBride
The Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins (I liked this first one in the series, but they went downhill fast after that IMHO)
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I loaded almost all those onto it. As soon as I get paid I'm going to mail it, unless anyone wants to help me with the shipping and I can mail it sooner. I also included ten books on writing, and the seven military classics of ancient china, and I'm putting harry potter, and the lord of the rings and the thrawn trilogy on it too.
 
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