So Long and Thanks For All The Bacon - Fred Rawey

Only a few chapters in but pretty funny, sometimes totally out of left field but easy to read.

Free digital download till tonight.

Where?

I went to the Apple App Store.

Download the free Kindle app and search for Rewey. His two books should pop up. Go to “So Long” and download. Really simple (...that even I could do it!...).

No apple, no kindle. Found those but was hoping for another source. I'll buy it. Love books, trying to instill that in the grand-kids as well. 😇

Have the kindle but there's some issue with being able to deliver to device. It's in my library awaiting legibility

Something Deeply Hidden - Sean Carroll
Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution - Richard Wolfson
A Grown up guide to Dinosaur's - Ben Garrod
Dune - Frank Herbert
Hume's Dialogues - David Hume
The Home Front: Life in America During World War 2 - Marth C. Little and Dan Gediman
Bite Me - Christopher Moore
You Suck - Christopher Moore
Bloodsucking Fiends - Christopher Moore
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror - Christopher Moore
The Gatekeepers - Dror Moreh
The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon - Todd Zwillich
Particle Physics for Non-Physicists - Steven Pollock

Terry Pratchett:

Making Money
Small Gods
Unseen Academicals
Thief of Time
The Last Continent
Witches Abroad
Interesting Times
Snuff
Thud!
Night Watch
Reaper Man
Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook
The Folklore of the Discworld
The Science of the Discworld
The Globe
Darwin's Watch
Judgement Day

Two Treatises of Government - John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - David Hume and Israel Bouseman
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings - Tom Holt
Armageddon: The Musical - Robert Rankin
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition 3rd Edition - Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, Douglas Kellner
The Wisdom of History - J. Rufus Fears
Candide - Voltaire

that's most of what I've read the past 2 months.... I missed some.

If you want to laugh like crazy read Christopher Moore and or Terry Pratchett!

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I'm glad you're not handing out homework Stephen! 🍺

39 book list. Dune is the only one I've read out of it.

So long and thanks for the bacon is now functional for Kindle and Kindle app if that was an issue for anyone else. Random as hell, but a few chuckles along the way

I think my wife downloaded it to her kindle for me. Gotta check when I get home.
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if Candide is the one with The best of all possible worlds, then I read that 45 years ago.

the fog is clearing.
This led me to Epitaph of a Small Winner, by Machado de Assis or some similar name.
I remember loving it. Especially after reading Candide.
Maybe I'll revisit...

Thief of Time. Is that the one with the midgets and the time machine? I loved that movie!

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You talking about Time Bandits? No machine, but a map to different time portals.

Yep. That's it.

Loved that one as a kid. But always horrified me when his parents flamed out at the end.

Sort of, Candide, (French for Optimism) puts forward the idea that no matter how bad your situation is you shouldn't be philosophical about it and just accept it. Thinking you can better your lot in life is considered subversive by the ruling class. Candide's situation goes from bad to worse to abominable but he keeps his optimism. But, he always suffers misfortune. It's only at the end when he meets a poor farmer who is happy because doesn't think about or expect anything from life, he just works hard on his little farm and survives that Candide and his friends assume the same attitude, that they find peace.

It was Dutch missionary's who preached to the poor that if you just accept your lot in life and know your place and never try to better yourself (I.E. try to subvert God's plan for you) you'll find true happiness. Candide was Voltaire's way of satirizing this doctrine. He was imprisoned at least twice for his writings. Basically it boils down to if you are suffering, you were made to suffer for a reason and should not question it. Just accept it.

Lol no but I loved that movie as a kid! Almost all of Terry Pratchett's book are set on the Discworld. A flat world carried on the backs of 4 giant elephants who in turn stand on the back of the great space turtle A'tuin.

People really use to believe this and there is an old quote about a person who asks a philosopher what does the turtle stand on? His reply is "It's turtle's, all the way down!"

Almost all of the books are satire of the real world. The first few books in the series have humor more akin to Airplane! or HotShots but, as his writing progressed the books got better and better and while still being hilarious they also started to point out the absurdities of people and what they are willing to accept while at the same time still managing to move civilization forward.

The main city Anhk-Morpork (Basically London) is a said to be run by a Democracy. One man, one vote. The Patrician was the man and he had the vote;-)

He also legitimized the thieves guild making it an official part of the government on the idea that since there was always going to be crime it might as well be organized crime. They were given a budget and were allow so much crime per year. People could pay a small yearly premium and walk without fear of being robbed.

Pratchett is English and definitely brings that dry wit the Brits are so famous for (which I love) but, sometimes he can be downright hysterical.

He also wrote a book with Neil Gaiman called Good Omens which is REALLY funny!

Nice. Well, I'm gonna need some more book shelves. LOL.

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

The Divine Comedy - Dante (Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso)
Mysteries of Modern Physics - Professor Sean Carroll (Part of The Great Courses lectures. University level lectures on Audiobook)
King Arthur: History and Legend - Dorsey Armstrong (Examine's the real history of some of the characters and how multiple legends were merged into the King Arthur story we know today)
The Skeptic's Guide to American History - Mark A. Stoler (Part of The Great Courses lectures. University level lectures on Audiobook)

All of The Great Courses lectures are amazing and well worth the listen. There must be 600 of these on every subject imaginable. Each one is broken up into multiple lectures Can be 10 Lectures or 25 Lectures per and can go from 7 to 30+ hours.

Now I also have to read

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Republic - Plato
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

Two Books I just finished that I would urge everyone to read.

The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van der Kolk M.D. ( If you've suffer any kind of physical trauma, PTSD, etc. this book will change your life.)

Talking To Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell Just mind blowing. Everyone in any kind of law enforcement should have to read this book. It's about how we believe we can tell if a person is guilty or not, Lying or telling the truth and many other things based on body language and also about how we ignore real warning signs because we don't want to believe we are being fooled. Among other things. Every opinion is backed by scientific studies on multiple levels. Stories about how Castro FLOODED the C.I.A. with his spies and almost none were caught even when there was clear evidence. It's eye opening and a bit scary.