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Well you sir have a lot of irons in the fire. I look forward to reading it someday. My favorite sci-fi book is Snow Crash but I like the William Gibson stuff too. And Dune! Man reading was cool I should try it again.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's all about that main story and trying to "save the world" (or at least address the issues and raise questions and awareness). I don't feel I tell it until it has context - forcing me to create the mocumentary series as back up - which needs simplified back up with the TT20 and Truther Newbie Crash Course. All else is superfluous distractions. My laser-like focus off a disco ball.

Eventually, soon, I hope to step back from all social media to focus on my projects and stop talking about them.

If you like Snow Crash you'll likely like The Diamond Age my fave by him. That one and Cryptonomicon are stuck in my head and often visit my thoughts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

I read the Tolkein and Dune series when I was too young, maybe. I remember a lot of it too, but wonder if I would have gotten more out of it if I were older. Then again, I got woke in stages and I was already 30 when 9/11 happened, so I don't know how much better it could have been. A year or two ago I watched the TV series and a lot of it came back to me and I was very impressed at the clever ideas, nuance, and politics of it all. In a way, I guess I was impressed that I remembered that stuff I read when I was a tween or younger. Same goes for Ian Flemming. In Grade 9 I got a second period lunch with no one to socialize with so all I did was read all year. Not that I stopped reading, and I'd already read all of Tolkein, but that was where I "discovered" Herbert and Flemming and Douglas Adams, among others.

In Aug/Sept I bought 2 Douglas Valentine, 4 David McGowan, 1 Jay Dyer, and the Tom Secker & Matt Alford book. I read the first chapters of most but I'm still not finished the one I chose to finish first "CIA As Organized Crime". I prefer interactivity or being active while listening to input.

Before Xmas I got the 3 David Dees books for my folks. I didn't expect it to arrive before Xmas but it did, though I didn't pick it up til after and I haven't seen them since - so it's just sitting there waiting to be opened.

All of this book buying has dramatically cramped my style as I'm already scraping bottom. Better this than not though.