re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth

Since we’re talking books now, I would recommend James Fenimore Cooper’s 1823 novel “The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale”.
It’s one of those stories that go to show that as much things change, not much really changes after all.
It even has a 17th Century environmentalist/treehugger as a major character.
(Texas history and literature education powers-that-be would hate it.)

Available free, in a variety of download formats, at Gutenburg Project:

gutenberg.org

I liked Cooper. Very much of his age, stylistically, but well worth the time.

I’ve read, at differing times, everything I’ve seen mentioned. I’ll agree that Miller is over rated, later Hemingway is too but to sit a spell with Camus will more than make up for them,

For now though, I just got the latest William Gibson SF novel “The Peripheral” from the library and that’s as tasty a read as his first, “Neuromancer”.

Oh, and if anyone here needs the best space opera written in a generation, there is “Ancillary Justice” by Ann Leckie. The second book “Ancillary Sword” just came out and is as good. I’m chomping at the bit for part three to be done.