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“The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear”

It’s a fictional book.

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Currently reading Rumo. I’ll have to read more of the Zamonia series.

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Damn, that was the first thing I thought of before clicking on this thread as well.

Great book. Great series.

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Oh wow, I didn’t even know they exist in other languages until I had to google it for this thread in english :D

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The Dutch translation is great. One of the few books I prefer to read in Dutch over English.

Moers wrote many great books in his Zamonia setting, but bluebear is head and shoulders above the rest.

The books have great art too. Done by the author, as he’s a cartoonist.

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15 points

Cooking with Coolio

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What’s your favorite recipe from coolio

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Kicking the ladder

It tells how rich countries got rich by breaking the rules they ask/demand poor countries to follow.

History of economics

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I abstract everything to such an extent that what I’ve read is almost like a part of me I have trouble separating like this.

There are many things I’ve read but never talk about. I mean, I was a Jehovah’s Witness growing up, and quite an active one. I’ve read the bible many times, along with most of the numerous publications. I know more than most witnesses; enough that no witnesses want to talk to me about it because there is nothing they could say that I am unaware of on the subject. I’m smart enough to know that objective reasoning with a belief system is completely counter productive and pointless. I have never spoken out against it publicly or been labeled apostate or anything like that. I was to the point of reading various direct transcriptions of Aramaic texts and looking for deeper contextual meanings. It is not something I really care to talk about, and I’m a bit rusty with a lot of other stuff on my mind since, but I can spar on the subject if something got me motivated enough to try. I simply talk about the things that are a part of me, and that part of me was a dead end I left behind when I found the end of the road.

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The Saga of Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series by Julian May. The best sci-fi books I’ve ever read for world-building and plot. Written in the '90s, hardly anyone remembers them, despite their success at the time.

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They took a long time to write. One my friends was planning to break into May’s house and read her notes if she died before finishing.

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I remember in the GM series, she always ended the books on a cliffhanger, which may have been a brilliant marketing ploy but was simultaneously terrifying.

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