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> On Jul 24, 2020, at 6:08 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Oh yeah. These guys are fashion-forward.
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> bp
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>> On 7/24/2020 4:47 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>> He said positive fashion. So fancy clothes?
>>
>> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 5:36 PM
>> To: af@af.afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored
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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.
>>
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>> On Jul 24, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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
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>> On Jul 24, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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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