Where is my book of smites...
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> On Jul 24, 2020, at 4:36 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> As if Mormons had positive aspects.
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> bp
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> On 7/24/2020 3:06 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>> Heinlein frequently had a Mormon character that was cast in a positive
>> fashion. I really appreciated that.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jul 24, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Heinlein hasn’t aged as well as I would have expected. Some great ideas
>>> but the sex bits appealed a lot more to a teenage male than they do some 40
>>> years later.
>>>
>>> Asimov has held up very well - as good today as it was when it was written.
>>>
>>> For newer SciFi:
>>>
>>> I absolutely love Dan Simmons “Hyperion Cantos”. A bit slow to start but
>>> a fantastic work. Don’t start it if you have other things you need to do.
>>>
>>> The “Imperial Radch” series by Ann Leckie is also one of my very favorites.
>>> A bit hard to wrap your head around at first but once you figure it out
>>> it’s excellent.
>>>
>>> If you want something that’s just a plain fun easy read - “Old Man’s War”
>>> by John Scalzi is a concept straight out of Heinlein’s style, with a
>>> slightly different twist on the sexuality.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>> On Jul 24, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I liked Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
>>>>
>>>> The idea that citizenship is not a birthright but something you earn
>>>> through service to society was interesting food for thought. It's not
>>>> something we could do realistically, but it was interesting to think
>>>> about. On the other hand, the idea that every soldier takes care of his
>>>> own logistics is pretty dumb though. Heinlein must have found it
>>>> objectionable to have more people in the rear echelon than you have actual
>>>> fighters, but frankly modern wars are won by logistics. Having more
>>>> soldiers is irrelevant if they don't have food, ammo, clothing, and fully
>>>> working equipment; and expecting every Gomer Pile to take part in every
>>>> aspect of that would be dumb.
>>>>
>>>> Puppet Masters wasn't bad either. It spawned the whole body snatching
>>>> subgenre in sci fi.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/24/2020 4:14 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
>>>>> I get Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair confused. Didn’t really like
>>>>> either of them. Been a while since I read any Bradbury or Heinlein.
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Ken Hohhof
>>>>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:01 PM
>>>>> To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
>>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored
>>>>>
>>>>> I talked to an old college friend the other day, he had just read and was
>>>>> recommending “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis.
>>>>>
>>>>> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
>>>>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:54 PM
>>>>> To: af@af.afmug.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored
>>>>>
>>>>> Books are better.
>>>>>
>>>>> I found the 1911 edition of the Boy Scouts Handbook enlightening. The
>>>>> views expressed by the author(s) are a glimpse into a different time. It
>>>>> also discusses survival and outdoor skills in broad terms. If you tried
>>>>> to build a bow or a log cabin from the instructions in that book you'd
>>>>> have to do a lot of your own figuring to fill in the blanks, but maybe
>>>>> that's the whole point, and maybe that's the piece we're missing from
>>>>> society today. Like maybe the journey of figuring out the precise
>>>>> techniques to carve the notches into the logs is a better experience than
>>>>> emulating a you-tuber who shows you every single step.
>>>>>
>>>>> My other recent recreational book was the National Audubon Society Field
>>>>> Guide to North American Trees. I lived 40 years on this earth only ever
>>>>> learning a handful of major tree types (Oak, Maple, etc). I'm
>>>>> embarrassed to say I was calling every needle leafed tree a "pine" for
>>>>> most of those years. I finally decided to educate myself on the topic.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/24/2020 3:29 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
>>>>> I am not much of a sports fan... I thought. But with no sports on I am
>>>>> really missing them. I would at times catch part of a game to pass the
>>>>> time. That option is gone for the moment and there nothing but crap on
>>>>> to watch... Need a good book I guess.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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