Good reads
I’m working on one of those Big Thought blog entries for later in the week. Meantime, between that and ongoing deadlines, posting may be “lite” around here.
In case you’re looking for good reads to get you through your Monday morning (or any other day) …
- “Jake MacGregor’s” novel The Advisor has grown by four chapters since I linked to it last week. A world-class read, truly. This guy can tell a story.
- Via Brad at WendyMcElroy.com (and indirectly via C^2), here’s a great old one: Vernor Vinge’s “The Ungoverned.” Who says an anarchist society couldn’t protect itself against invaders?
- Along those same lines, here’s another oldie-goodie that a lot of folks hereabouts have read. But since it’s one of the best stories ever about individual resistance to govocracy (and since it relates to that Big Thought I’m working on), it bears repeating: Eric Frank Russell’s “And Then There Were None.”
- And let’s not forget that our own MamaLiberty and Carl-Bear Bussjaeger have some pretty good reads, as well. (I couldn’t find a good link to MamaLiberty’s book, which may be because she’s in the process of publishing it “for real.” So I linked to the Mental Militia thread “MamaLiberty’s new story.” Mama, if there’s a better link, I hope you’ll post it in the comments.)
- You asked for it. You got it. The Freedom Outlaw’s Handbook is finally available for Kindle! For mysterious reasons, Amazon won’t let me link directly to the Kindle edition page, so use this link then select the Kindle option. Are they asking a bit much for it? Yeah, maybe. (Not my call, sorry.) But at least it’s there — with other Paladin titles to follow!
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July 11th, 2011 at 9:11 am
I need a good read-I just read the single most depressing book I’ve ever read- Endgame, by Derrick Jensen. It’s well-written, but just dismal..short-short version-civilization bad,technology bad, people mostly bad, planet good. I’m waiting for The Bad Attitude Guide To Good Citizenship to get here..maybe it will be waiting for me when I get home…
July 11th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Claire,
If you want a great book to read, well, I’ve just recently read “Noble Vision” by Gen LaGrea. This is a “mainstream” book that unfortunately didn’t get a better publicity than it deserved. Much like yours. Its mainly for the ladies, but I think guys will like it too. Provided they know this is not an action/adventure book with guns.
http://www.lfb.org/product_info.php?cPath=45&products_id=826
July 11th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Oh me… that thread at TMM shows only the very rough first draft, so I hope folks will be patient and let me get this thing published. I thought I was done, but some beta readers came up with so many good ideas that I just had to do a little rewriting. The second book is going into the forth chapter already, so it looks like I’ll be seriously busy for a while. :) I’ll announce when the first one is ready. It will be some sort of “print on demand,” but I’m not sure just who or how yet. Been too busy writing to even investigate!
Thanks for the plug, however! I’m anxious to see if people like this story. I know that just writing it was a tremendous journey for me, and caused me to rethink a lot of stuff I figured was pretty much set in stone about my own attitudes and plans. It was worth writing just for that, but I do want to share it as well.
July 11th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
BTW, this is my favorite chapter and has had the least revision. https://thementalmilitia.com/forums/index.php?topic=25972.msg328749#msg328749
And there are five new chapters at the end that have never been seen by anyone except one of my beta readers! he he he he
July 15th, 2011 at 10:45 am
OK, I asked for your books to be available as e-books. Thanks for this first one. I just purchased it and it’s being downloaded to my Kindle even as I post this comment.
Yes, the price (for Kindle) is too high. But maybe the price for the hard copy is a little high also.
Hopefully you will make some $$ on the Kindle edition.
Cheers.