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Jonathan A. Dowdell
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| Posted: 21 March 2026 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | 1
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Just finished Project Hail Mary. Now I can see the movie!
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James Best
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| Posted: 07 April 2026 at 2:55am | IP Logged | 2
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Now starting THE FIST OF GOD by the late Frederick Forsyth,a thriller novel published way back in 1994 with its storyline linked to some of the real-world people and events that preceded the start of Operation Desert Storm. The book features a character named Mike Martin, a British SAS officer, who plays a major role in Forsyth's 2006 book THE AFGHAN, which I read back in September 2025 without realizing that it was a sequel and not a stand alone novel.
Edited by James Best on 07 April 2026 at 2:56am
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Evan S. Kurtz
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| Posted: 07 April 2026 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | 3
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Funny - I just watched the movie, now I'm reading the book!
Also reading "The Brixton Brothers: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity" by Mac Barnett. If you have an adolescent at home, it's a great choice to read with them. I'm reading it with my Grade 5/6 class.
Also just finished reading "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett, as well as "Reaper Man" by the same author. I was reading Reaper Man for myself, I was reading Going Postal to my son. All great books. I'll be reading "Soul Music" shortly.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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| Posted: 12 April 2026 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | 4
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As mentioned last weekend, I took an unexpected intermission from Pratchett to read Project Hail Mary. It’s an engrossing story. I read the vast majority of it in the last two days.
I was recently recommended a science fiction series called The Sun Eater, by Christopher Ruocchio. I might give it a go over the summer, but for now I plan to return to Pratchett.
Edited by Evan S. Kurtz on 12 April 2026 at 9:11pm
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James Best
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Now starting THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene. I was overdue to read some popular science material and so I snared a paperback copy from my local used bookstore.
Turns out it was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and won the Royal Society Prize for science books that year. The updated version I'm reading was published in 2003 with a new preface.
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John Byrne
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I often find myself wondering if the Universe is a lot more simple than what scientists make it out to be. If everything out there is exactly what it appears to be, and we don’t really need black holes and dark matter/energy and all the other arcane stuff we’ve basically made up to explain problems that exist only in our own minds.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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One of the things I love about math is how Einstein’s Theory of Relativity not only explains what Newton’s Laws got wrong - or, at least, for what they were unable to account - but the same theory incorporates Newton’s Laws on the scale where they “work.” Like, the math ends up being the same, for obvious reasons.
So that just leads me to think that there will be a (relatively) simple solution to all the stuff we can’t account for right now, once we figure it out. If we ever figure it out.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Anyway, at the moment I’m reading “Soul Man” by Terry Pratchett, “The Brixton Brothers Book 2: The Ghostwriter Secret” by Mac Barnett, and “The Whisperwicks Book 1: The Labyrinth of the Lost and Found” by Jordan Lees.
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Joe Franklin
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Still reading Brixton Book 2; now also reading “Hogfather” by Terry Pratchett and “Dragon Riders of Roar” by Jenny McLachlan.
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Peter Hicks
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“ I often find myself wondering if the Universe is a lot more simple than what scientists make it out to be. If everything out there is exactly what it appears to be, and we don’t really need black holes and dark matter/energy and all the other arcane stuff we’ve basically made up to explain problems that exist only in our own minds.”******************************************************* I do a bit of a head shake when I hear astrophysicists say the universe doesn’t behave the way we think it should, therefore there must be dark matter and dark energy that we can’t detect that are drastically affecting things like gravity. To me, that sounds like medieval healers speculating the patient is ill because of fairies in their tummy. How about instead the formulas we have been using on Earth are not applicable on the larger scale, kind of like Newtonian physics versus Relativity or even Quantum physics?
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