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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Tolerance is not a moral virtue, it's a social contract. You should not feel obliged to tolerate the intolerant.

donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This one's about how 1984 was the best year for music, ever. I don't know about that, but I do know this is a good book. Reads kind of like a rock critic wrote - one did - but it's still good. www.amazon.com/Cant-Slow-Do...

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Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year

Amazon.com: Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year: 9780306903373: Matos, Michaelangelo: Books

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Sort of apropos for today - and for a few more years - it's The Big Book of Conspiracies. Great illustrations, and solid explanations on what the conspiracies are, without buying into them. www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Con...

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The Big Book of Conspiracies

The Big Book of Conspiracies [Moench, Doug] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Big Book of Conspiracies

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Re: the Los Angeles fires. I used to live in Pasadena, and much of Altadena (just north) is gone. Places I used to go are not there any more. It's bad. Really, really bad. A lot of the news is focused on the Palisades fire, which is also bad, but don't forget about Altadena. Much love, my friends.

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

How about this one? It's the Annotated Alice, with notes by Martin Gardner. If you don't know who he was, shame on you, look him up. If you're confused by Alice in Wonderland, you need this book. www.amazon.com/Annotated-Al...

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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

The classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, collected under one cover, include notes from Martin Gardner on the meanings behind the words and solutions to the riddles b...

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here's an extra for today, but I don't know how you're going to find this one. It's all Windsor McKay's 'Little Nemo' comics, presented as an early-20th Century broadsheet newspaper page, as it was intended. www.amazon.com/Little-Nemo-...

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Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!

Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays! [McCay, Windsor] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here's another one, about Tesla. Nikola Tesla, the man, not the car company, or - God forbid - Apartheid Clyde. Tesla was a man far, far, far ahead of his time, and this is a good read. www.amazon.com/Tesla-Man-Ti...

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Tesla: Man Out of Time

Amazon.com: Tesla: Man Out of Time: 9780743215367: Cheney, Margaret: Books

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Here's another one: Cosmos by Carl Sagan. I watched the PBS series back in the day, and this is the book for that series. Dr. Sagan changed the way I thought about stuff, for the better. Him and Ann Druyan, don't forget her, she was half of Cosmos. www.amazon.com/Cosmos-1st-S...

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Cosmos 1st edition by Sagan, Carl (1980) Hardcover

Cosmos 1st edition by Sagan, Carl (1980) Hardcover [Carl Sagan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Cosmos 1st edition by Sagan, Carl (1980) Hardcover

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Another comic book favorite, this time Legion Five Years Later. I was still collecting when these hit the comic shops, and I loved the new tone and different take. This is an omnibus (collected) edition. www.amazon.com/Legion-Super...

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Legion of Super-heroes - Five Years Later Omnibus 1

Amazon.com: Legion of Super-heroes - Five Years Later Omnibus 1: 9781779503138: Giffen, Keith: Books

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm reading this right now. Yes, Harry Truman. It's about the first four months of his presidency. You know, when WWII ended and we dropped the Bomb and the Cold War started. Fascinating. www.amazon.com/Accidental-P...

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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

Amazon.com: The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World: 9781328505682: Baime, A. J.: Books

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Just for Give-thanksing, here's another favorite book, this time fiction. The Golem and the Jinni. Evidently there's a second book? From two years ago? I'll have to check it out. Literally. From the libary. www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q3NYVT...

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The Golem and the Jinni

Visit Amazon's The Golem and the Jinni Page and shop for all The Golem and the Jinni books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of The Golem and the Jinni

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

On the fantasy side, there's The Lies of Locke Lamora. If you like your hero kind of anti- then this is the book for you. www.amazon.com/Lies-Locke-L...

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The Lies of Locke Lamora (The Gentleman Bastard Sequence)

Amazon.com: The Lies of Locke Lamora (The Gentleman Bastard Sequence): Lynch, Scott: Books

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Here's another favorite, Chapterhouse Dune. This is the sixth and final Dune novel from Frank Herbert. He planned a seventh but died before he could start writing. As the sixth book, this is far down the rabbit hole of fandom, but it's great. www.amazon.com/Chapterhouse...

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Chapterhouse: Dune

Amazon.com: Chapterhouse: Dune: 9780593098271: Herbert, Frank: Books

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Another favorite book, this time non-fiction: Detroit An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff. This is kind of a memoir, kind of an embedded reporting, about this man and his home town and some crazy stuff he discovered about himself. www.amazon.com/Detroit-Amer...

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I know what I'm talking about because when I was in college I worked in the libary. No, I didn't spell it wrong. Libary. Libarians love it when you call it a libary. They loved me.

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donhartshorn.bsky.social @donhartshorn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm an author, so I thought I'd share some of my favorite books. First up, A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. This is the first time I read a novel and thought 'I don't know if I could do this.' www.amazon.com/Single-Man-P...

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