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September 29, 2019
Sunday Morning Book Thread 09-29-2019
Muldoon always complains that my library pics never actually show any one reading or otherwise using library resources. OK, fine. Here's a photo of this week's library/reading room that has people in it.
I knew there had to be a word to describe the Green New Deal. Also, I thought this was the definition of hubris. How Dare He? Lefties everywhere: Being properly worshipful of Greta Thunberg is now mandatory. Yes, author Dan Simmons is getting cranky in his old age, as this recent Facebook post makes plain. He does not suffer fools gladly, no matter how old they are. Of course, this brought out swarms of lefties who belittled, cursed, and spat at Simmons all over social media. Simmons, who is probably best known for the 4-volume Hyperion Cantos series. He also writes myateries, thrillers, and horror novels. He's got so many books published, he has to be writing approximately 33 hours each day in order to get that kind of output. Lots of books. Big, beautiful books. Best books in the world, and I should know, because I've read a lot of books. Anyway, lefties are now boo-hooing all over social media about what a big meanie Simmons is for "attacking a child", which is a weird sort of double-standard, considering that if Thunberg's handlers hadn't insisted on placing her squarely in the public eye, she wouldn't have been attacked. And they're going on and on about how bad his books are, and how they hate them because they're right-wing, and I don't need to tell you how hilarious it is to hear a bunch of sad-sack progs complaining about books that have a right-wing bias. Which is, like, 0.001% of all books published in the United States. Specifically, they complained about Simmon's dystopian novel Flashback, which I think mentioned on the book thread a few years ago: The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result. What's wrong with that? Well, one prog clown called it "an endless anti-Obama screed." So maybe it's worth reading, just for the sheer novelty. Another Simmons novel held up for left-wing scorn was Olympos, the second installment of his Illium series. Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve. This book gets singled out for "Islamophobia", which usually means being insufficiently deferential to Islam, and I'm not sure how that could be, given the above blurb, but in a novel of 900+ pages, I suppose he could find a way to work it in. Although Simmons was already in the left's doghouse for his legendary 'time-traveler' blog post from 2006. They're probably they're just itching to cancel him, but Dan is 71 years old, most of the books he ever will write have already been written, so the best they could do is to dig up his body after he dies, and set it on fire in front of the Trump Tower, and then pee on it. That'll show 'em. Larry Correia did a write-up on this a couple of days ago, and as you might guess, his take his way better than mine. You should stop letting me waste your time and go read the whole thing. It's better written, funnier, and more informative. Correia points out that all of the caterwauling over Dan Simmons has actually helped his book sales. Hyperion, a 30-year old book, is suddenly a #1 best seller on Amazon. His point is that the power of the traditional publishing gatekeepers is failing: So conservative, libertarian, or hell, anybody to the right of Mao basically had to keep their mouths shut because they were scared of getting articles written about they by wretched shitheels like China Mike, Cameldung Frapington, or Frau Butthurt, proclaiming Author X is a Bad Person And Should Be Shunned. Then the authors would see the internet lynch mob of wokescolds sharing those articles getting out their torches and pitchforks, get scared, and then debase themselves by apologizing even though they’d done nothing wrong. When Correia gets a full head of steam, he makes Kurt Schlichter look like a pansy soy boy. Also, I learned a new word from him, 'wokescold', whcih I am incorporating into my vocabulary, right next to 'crybully'.
Received the following recommendation via e-mail: My book is My Life in the North Woods by Robert Smith...Its a coming of age fiction book about a young man who spent a winter in a Maine logging camp during those two evils - the depression and prohibition. He provides a couple of excerpts to give you a flavor of this memoir: "Some twenty yards above the bunkhouse, out of sight behind a clump of alders, a pit had been dug, and a lean-to shelter rigged over it, open at the sides, with a long pole stretched across the pit at just the right angle for a man, standing on a narrow strip of planking on the edge of the pit, to lean back and hook his arms over. There was room for three or four men at a time.This was the spot provided for defecation. It stunk to the skies". One of the heroes of the book is Jim Kidder, who relates this interaction with one of the villians of the book, Wallace McCormic, a co-owner of the logging camp: "He had once, while guiding a bateau along the lakeshore to rescue castaway lengths of pulpwood that had escaped from the boom, found occasion to beat the ass off Wallace, who was given to talking himself up as a man ready to 'intertain' with his fists anywho dared to cross him. This time, Wallace had mistaken Jim Kidder for one of those thoroughly subdued Nova Scocians who came down here every winter to grub for scanty wages. And when Jim did not respond to the hail and bring the bateau in to ferry Wallace across to the storehouse, Wallace had suggested that Jim needed to go back to Nova Sciotia and get his ears cleaned out, Or perhaps, Wallace might clean them out himself. I would think that this would be an old book, but it came out in 1986. Too bad it is OOP. Used copies of My Life in the North Woods are available on Amazon and also AbeBooks. Hardcover prices start at about $5. ___________ I think I mentioned last time - read and enjoyed Frank Fleming's SideQuest and Hellbenders dud not realize that he is @IMAO who writes for Babylon Bee I think Frank's gig at the Bee is relatively recent. And he doesn't so much writing for his IMAO site any more, so he's probably got his hands full writing for his paid gigs. He's married with 4 kids, so he's got to work or else sell the lot for scientific experiments, which is he probably doesn't want to do. The HellBender novel sounds pretty wild: Doug wasn’t sure whether he should trust Satan. I remember when Fleming's first book, Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything, came out. Some of the reviews by dimwitted progs who couldn't figure out from the title that he was being ironic are pretty amusing. ___________ ___________ Finished _We Have No Idea_, which is a fun book about areas of science (physics, mostly) which are still complete blanks on the map. How does gravity work? How big is the Universe? What is dark energy? Etc. I enjoyed it -- it's written for a lay readership and is very jokey, but manages to not talk down to the reader. "The more you know, the more you know you don't know" is a quote attributed to Aristotle. But it's true we don't know lots of stuff about a whole lot of stuff: Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science, they give us the best answers currently available for a lot of questions that are still perplexing scientists...It turns out the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense. But Cham and Whiteson make a compelling case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can. The Kindle price for We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe is a not unreasonable $8.99. ___________ Currently reading #5 in David Black's Harry Gilmour series, the adventures of a young RNVR submarine skipper in early WWII. Very good action, believable characters, humor, and a suave villain who is out to scuttle the young captain both literally and figuratively. Free on Kindle unlimited. Hadn't heard of this series before, but it looks interesting. The first installment is Gone to Sea in a Bucket: Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn’t it. The best part is that the price of the Kindle edition is only $3.99. And this is not one of those deals where they sell the first one really cheap and then soak you for all of the others. Every one in the 5-book series is < 4.50. Or you can plunk down $21 for the lot. ___________
'Ette right wing yankee has been busy writing: Last week, I released a regency romance novel called A Small and Inconvenient Disaster. It's short, sweet, and not at all to the usual Moron taste. Some of the 'ettes might like it, though. Here is the Amazon blurb: Everywhere she goes, Maria Mason is plagued by little catastrophes. Getting caught in the rain, running from the friendliness of a muddy dog, tripping over her own feet at the worst possible moment- she has been subject to all manner of accidents, and to fend off the worst of them, she has learned to be silent and still. A Small and Inconvenient Disaster, available on Kindle for $3.99, is actually the second book in the Markam Series. The first is The Secret of Seavale, also for $3.99. ___________ Couple three years ago, I mentioned Joseph Courtemanche's debut novel Assault on Saint Agnes. He was kind enough to send me an advance copy and it was quite a thrilling page-turner. I just found out that he published another one last year, Nicholas of Haiti: Nick Bacon is a life interrupted. When his commercial airline flight explodes over Utah, killing everyone on board but Nick, his miraculous survival draws unwanted attention. The press can't get enough of his story while the FBI is convinced he planted the bomb that took down his plane. All he wants is a place to heal and time to let the world forget him. Unable to return home, Nick accepts an offer to join a missionary medical team and flees to Haiti. Joe's first novel is a political thriller. This one sounds more like an urban fantasy. The Kindle edition is $4.99. ___________ Conservative author Jon Del Arroz has published the first novel of his military sci-fi series, The Saga of the Nano Templar, entitled Justified After years of fighting for justice with his deadly nanotech, Templar Drin abandons his post, crash landing on a desert world controlled by a tyrannical alien empire. Its inhabitants are forced into slavery, broken where a once-proud race cultivated its lands. The blurb says fans of Star Wars and Warhammer 40K will especially appreciate this book. Christians, too, I expect, since it starts out "To save a world...he must rely on God." So, Justified is out now, the sequel Sanctified will be released next week followed by Glorified in November. ___________ So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, insults, threats, ugly pants pics and moron library submissions may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm. What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books. | Recent Comments
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