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The Louisiana Purchase doubles the size of the United States for the measly price of 15 million dollars. President Jefferson needs to know more and sets these guys on a 2 year mission to explore strange new lands and go up against huge bears that keep on coming after hit by 5 or 6 bullets. And you thought Star Trek was bold.

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He, is the last man on earth.
She, is stuck in the Internat'l Space Station.

That's as far as I've gotten, he just got her on the radio...

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The Nuremberg Trials against the Major War Criminals transcript - Goering's testimony.

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OK, I've been on about a 10 fun-book roll, one more fun one...



...and then it's the next Microsoft exam, 70-411... fun stuff, I have a little kingdom of VM's in a hyped up laptop

This'll end the sci-fi for a few months, unless Book 5 gets written for the fantastic Columbus Day - Black Ops series, that's gotta be one of the best series ever I'm hangin on that book like I used to hang on new zappa albums

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Looking forward to reading this some time after May 13, 2018

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Don't Be Stupid Unless You Want To

From Boston to California around Cape Horn(the hard way).

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Finally

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With the original astronauts either dead or in their final few laps around our star, I figured it was high time to give this one a go. I've wanted to read it for some time. Those guys were and remain something incredibly special. True pioneers of the space-age. Theirs are the shoulders the current and future generations stand on.

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I remember watching the snowy images from the rabbit ears on the black and white on the AV cart during the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo programs, 5th grade and such. Classes stopped so we could watch the launches, maneuvers, re-entries/pickups, whatever fell during school hours. In retrospect, school was pretty good about that, we saw a lot of launches, the kids got to see the whole thing.

Radio blackout and parachutes.
That's how you got back from space

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Cruddy by Lynda Barry. Read it many years back (came out in 1999.), and decided to dig it out for a re-read. A friend bought it for me and had the author sign it. "Hi Diane! This is a freaky book!" Indeed it is, unusual, freaky, and wonderful. And I've just started.

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One two, buckle my shoe!

Ah, one of my faves.

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picked up and just finished this



The eleventh in a series of a CIA spy in modern times. Complex plot told simply and directly, providing enough detail to make it very realistsic. The bad guy in this one is a top level CIA traitor who wants to get rid of as many spooks and heads of state as possible with the help of ISIS. This is the first I've read in the genre in decades. 'S ok. Realistic, and on the whole, well paced. I may go back and read a few more of them.

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" . . . On the outside now . . ."

When Micajah Fenton discovers a crater in his front yard with a broken time glider in the bottom and a naked, virtual woman on his lawn, he delays his plans to kill himself. While helping repair the marooned time traveler’s glider, Cager realizes it can return him to his past to correct a mistake that had haunted him his entire life. As payment for his help, the virtual creature living in the circuitry of the marooned glider, sends Cager back in time as his ten-year-old self, knowing everything he’d known at eighty and gives him access to advanced equations of space and time. But living life over knowing the future isn’t as easy as Cager has anticipated. His every action alters the future he remembers until much of what he remembers never happened at all. And those changes work against him at every turn, preventing him correcting the most serious mistake of his life. Now he must use his advanced mathematical ability to build his own time machine to go back and try again. But he needs a fortune even to begin. Then he receives help from a strange, young woman with no history. While perfecting time travel, Cager and his new partner overcome enormous problems, even being hunted by dinosaurs in the Cretaceous. After that, though, things get really bizarre.

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Finally, Book 5 released last week...we were all running out of oxygen...



I'm hoping the series doesn't end in this one, the series is so intensely good

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Thanks to Gray Ghost. A fun read - recommended!

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Cheers Caputh, I really enjoyed that one, I'm about to tag team these two


which I've read a number of times over the years, and

which arrived today

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Fire and Fury. In English. I haven't even finished the prologue and already found a poorly constructed phrase.
(vows to get a job as a proof-reader)

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Join the PackardGoose forum! Send me a PM!

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