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  1. I was in the hospital for a few days having my gallbladder removed and the wife cooked a entire jumbo pack of bacon to put in some sort of cabbage stir fry recipe she found on Pinterest.  She left over half of the ones cooked bacon in a Tupperware container in the back of the fridge which sat there until she decided it was time for her to throw it all away.  I was not happy.

  2. Stolen from the old site.  H/T to Texas Town

    I took a few hours and summarized all of the Shag's recommendations in the entire thread.  

    - I used Goodreads to identify publish date and genre, though there's certainly grey area with a few of the genre categorizations. (For series I included the publish date for the first book.)

    - I made a separate list for series and only included it if that series was specifically mentioned, i.e. if one book from a series was recommended I just kept it in the "standalone" list.  

    - There was alot of back-and-forth about the Ender series and Dune series that I skimmed past and, as result, those are probably underrepresented in the number of "votes" they received. 

    - There's some serious nerdz recommendations in this thread (says the guys who categorizes a 15 page thread). Drizzt Do'Urden. Amazing! I'm still trying to unpack that one. Had no idea. Well done, Shag. 

    - The lists are categorized by genre, ranked by # of recommendations with a secondary sort by author

    - A few books that I didn't see mentioned that I really liked: 

    Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke) - fascinating story about an unknown object that enters our solar system. A small part of the book that I really liked was that most of planets close to Earth had been colonized and each had a unique perspective and motivation on how to deal with the mysterious structure.

    Jurassic Park (Crichton) - loved this book as a kid, got me hooked on Crichton and made me want to dig deeper into sci-fi.



    (# of recommendations) Title, Author (Year) 

    SERIES - FANTASY

    Spoiler! 
    (15) Kingkiller Chronicles, Rothfuss (2007)
    (5)  Prince of Nothing, Bakker (2003)
    (5)  First Law Trilogy, Abercrombie (2007)
    (5)  Shannara (various), Brooks (1977)
    (5)  The Riftwar Saga, Feist (1982)
    (4)  Raven's Shadow (Blood Song), Ryan (2011)
    (4)  Demon Cycle (The Warden Man), Brett (2008)
    (4)  Fillory (The Magicians), Grossman (2009)
    (4)  Mistborn Trilogy, Sanderson (2009)
    (4)  Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Williams (2005)
    (3)  Discworld, Pratchett (1983)
    (3)  A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin (1996)
    (3)  The Dresden Files, Butcher (2000)
    (3)  The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Donaldson (1977)
    (3)  Codex Alera, Butcher (2004)
    (3)  Cosmere: The Stormlight Archive, Sanderson (2010)
    (3)  Wheel of Time, Jordan and Sanderson (1990)
    (3)  Sword of Truth, Goodkind (1995)
    (3)  Powder Mage Trilogy, McClellan (2013)
    (3)  Shattered Sea, Abercrombie (2014)
    (3)  Malazan Book of the Fallen, Erikson (1999)
    (3)  The Black Company (various), Cook (1984)
    (3)  The Death Gate Cycle, Weis and Hickman (1990)
    (3)  The Chronicle of The Unhewn Throne, Staveley (2014)
    (3)  The Chronicles of Amber, Zelazny (1999)
    (2)  Drenai Saga, Gemmell (1984)
    (2)  The Saga of Recluse, Modesitt (1991)
    (2)  Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Keyes (2003)
    (2)  (various) Drizzt Do'Urden character (Dark Elf-Homeland), Salvatore (1990)
    (2)  The Divine Cities (City of Stairs), Bennett (2014)
    (2)  Gentleman Bastard, Lynch (2006)
    (2)  Vlad Taltos, Brust (1983)
    (2)  The Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy, McCaffrey (1968)
    (2)  The Shadow Campaigns, Wexler (2013)
    (2)  The Malloreon, Eddings (1987)
    (2)  The Broken Empire, Lawrence (2011)
    (2)  Lord of the Rings, Tolkien (1954)
    (2)  The Belgariad, Eddings (1982)
    (2)  A Dream of Eagles, Whyte (1992)
    (2)  The First Law Universe, Abercrombie (2009)
    (2)  Magic Kingdom of Landover, Brooks (1986)
    (2)  The Elric Saga (Elric of Melnibone), Moor$#@! (1987)
    (2)  The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy, Hobb (2014)
    (1)  The Long Price Quartet, Abraham (2006)
    (1)  Myth Adventures, Asprin (1978)
    (1)  Tufa Trilogy, Bledsoe (2011)
    (1)  The Banned and the Banished (Wit'ch Series), Clemens (2002)
    (1)  Monster Hunter International, Correia (2007)
    (1)  The Farside Trilogy, Dalmas (1995)
    (1)  The Acacia Trilogy, Durham (2007)
    (1)  Runelords, Farland (1998)
    (1)  Sipstrasi(or Stones of Power), Gemmell (1988)
    (1)  The Iron Druid Chronicles, Hearne (2011)
    (1)  The Farseer Trilogy (Realm of the Elderlings), Hobb (1995)
    (1)  The Queen of the Tearling, Johansen (2014)
    (1)  Sandman Slim, Kadrey (2009)
    (1)  Tales of the Knights Templar, Kurtz (1998)
    (1)  Chronicles of The Deryni, Kurtz (1970)
    (1)  Stormlord, Larke (2009)
    (1)  The Red Queen's War, Lawrence (2014)
    (1)  Book of the Ancestor (Red Sister), Lawrence (2017)
    (1)  Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Leiber (1970)
    (1)  The Imager Portfolio, Modesitt (2009)
    (1)  Fever , Moning (2006)
    (1)  The Temeraire Series, Novik (2006)
    (1)  The Checquy Files (The Rook), O'Malley (2012)
    (1)  The Hungering Saga, Pfaff (2011)
    (1)  The Chathrand Voyage, Re$#@! (2008)
    (1)  The Books of the Swords, Saberhagen (1983)
    (1)  Book of the Gods, Saberhagen (1998)
    (1)  Dark Tower, St. King (1980)
    (1)  The Mongoliad, Stephenson and Bear (2012)
    (1)  Night Angel Trilogy, Weeks (2008)
    (1)  Starshield, Weis and Hickman (1996)
    (1)  Dragonlace (various), Weis and Hickman (1992)
    (1)  Darksword, Weis and Hickman (1987)
    (1)  Rose of the Prophet, Weis and Hickman (1988)
    (1)  The Traveler's Gate, Wight (2013)
    (1)  The Wars Light & Shadows, Wurts (1993)
    (1)  Cycle of Fire, Wurts (1984)



    SERIES - SCI-FI

    Spoiler! 
    (8)  The Hyperion Cantos, Simmons (1989)
    (7)  Red Rising, Brown (2014)
    (6)  The Expanse, Corey (2011)
    (6)  Dune Chronicles, Herbert (1965)
    (5)  Mars Trilogy (Red, Blue, Green), Robinson (1993)
    (4)  The Culture Cycle (Consider Phlebas), Banks (1987)
    (4)  Takeshi Kovacs (Altered Carbon), Morgan (2006)
    (4)  Old Man's War Series, Scalzi (2005)
    (4)  Thrawn, Zahn (2017)
    (3)  The Xeelee Sequence, Baxter (1991)
    (3)  Forge of God, Bear (1987)
    (3)  The Ender Wiggin Saga, Card (1985)
    (3)  The Passage , Cronin (2010)
    (2)  The Hunger Games, Collins (2008)
    (2)  The Sprawl Trilogy, Gibson (1984)
    (2)  The Night's Dawn Trilogy, Hamilton (1996)
    (2)  Silo (Wool), Howey (2012)
    (2)  The Ringworld Series, Niven (1970)
    (2)  The Heechee Saga (Gateway), Pohl (1977)
    (2)  Prayers to Broken Stones, Simmons (1990)
    (2)  Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Zahn (1991)
    (1)  Expeditionary Force Series, Alanson (2016)
    (1)  Star Wars: Jedi Academy, Anderson (1994)
    (1)  Polity Universe, Asher (2006)
    (1)  The Positronic Robot Stories (I, Robot), Asimov (1950)
    (1)  Robot Series (The Caves of Steel), Asimov (1950)
    (1)  Phule's Company, Asprin (1990)
    (1)  The Way Series (Eon), Bear (1985)
    (1)  Jason Wander, Buettner (2008)
    (1)  Cordelia Vorkosigan (The Vorkosigan Saga), Bujold (1986)
    (1)  The Sten Chronicles, Bunch and Cole (1982)
    (1)  The John Carter of Mars (The Princess of Mars), Burroughs (1917)
    (1)  The Worthing Chronicle, Card (1979)
    (1)  Saga of the Well World (Well Of Souls), Chalker (1977)
    (1)  The Chanur Series, Cherryh (1981)
    (1)  Dread Empire (various), Cook (1979)
    (1)  The Dorsai / Childe Cycle, $#@!son (1959)
    (1)  The Riverworld Saga, Farmer (1971)
    (1)  163x, Flint (2000)
    (1)  The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus (Pax Britannia), Green (2007)
    (1)  The Void Trilogy, Hamilton (2007)
    (1)  Commonwealth Saga, Hamilton (2004)
    (1)  The Stainless Steel Rat , Harrison (1961)
    (1)  Deathworld, Harrison (1960)
    (1)  ATLAS Series, Hooke (2013)
    (1)  The Age of Unreason , Keyes (1999)
    (1)  Frontlines Series, Kloos (2013)
    (1)  Imperial Radch Trilogy (Ancillary Justice), Leckie (2013)
    (1)  Sunset WarriorCycle, Lustbader (1977)
    (1)  The Academy, McDevitt (1994)
    (1)  The Rho Agenda, Phillips (2006)
    (1)  The Origin Mystery Trilogy, Riddle (2013)
    (1)  Paladin of Shadows, Ringo (2005)
    (1)  The Legend of ZERO, Sa. King (2013)
    (1)  The Psalms of Isaak, Scholes (2009)
    (1)  Virga (The Sunless Countries), Schroeder (2006)
    (1)  The Ilium / Olympos Duology, Simmons (2003)
    (1)  Lensman Series, Smith (1939)
    (1)  Coyote Trilogy, Steele (2002)
    (1)  The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson (2003)
    (1)  Nantucket series (Island in the Sea of Time), Stirling (1998)
    (1)  The Laundry Files, Stross (2004)
    (1)  The Riyria Revelations, Sullivan (2011)
    (1)  Soldier of the Legion, Thomas (2001)
    (1)  The Alchemy Wars (The Mechanical), Tregillis (2015)
    (1)  Dying Earth, Vance (1950)
    (1)  Rifters Trilogy, Watts (1999)
    (1)  Dahak Series, Weber (1991)
    (1)  Safehold (Off Armageddon Reef), Weber (2007)
    (1)  Empire of Man, Weber (2001)
    (1)  Starfire, Weber and White (1990)
    (1)  The Disinherited, White (1993)
    (1)  Otherland, Williams (1996)
    (1)  Spin Series, Wilson (2005)
    (1)  Chung Kuo, Wingrove (1989)
    (1)  The Cobra Trilogy, Zahn (1985)
    (1)  Coldfire Trilogy, Friedman (1991) [sci-fi/fantasy]
    (1)  Wayward Pines Trilogy, Crouch (2012) [sci-fi/horror]
    (1)  Joe Ledger, Maberry (2009) [sci-fi/horror]



    "STANDALONE" BOOKS - FANTASY

    Spoiler! 
    (2)  American Gods, Gaiman (2001)
    (2)  Skin Trade, Martin (1988)
    (2)  Elantris, Sanderson (2005)
    (2)  The Way of Kings, Sanderson (2010)
    (2)  The Hobbit, Tolkien (1937)
    (1)  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Adams (1987)
    (1)  The Goblin Emperor, Addison (2014)
    (1)  Crooken Kingdon, Bardugo (2016)
    (1)  Range of Ghosts, Bear (2012)
    (1)  Agyar (vampire), Brust (1994)
    (1)  Spellwright, Charlton (2011)
    (1)  Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Clarke (2004)
    (1)  The King of Elflands Daughter, Dunsany (1924)
    (1)  The Crown of Stars, Elliot (1977)
    (1)  Neverwhere, Gaiman (1996)
    (1)  The Half-Made World, Gilman (2010)
    (1)  Replay, Gimwood (1998)
    (1)  Crooked, Grossman (2015)
    (1)  The Burried Giant, Ishiguro (2015)
    (1)  The Shadow That Was Lost, Islington (2016)
    (1)  The Lions of al-Rassan, Kay (1995)
    (1)  A Song for Arbonne, Kay (1992)
    (1)  Under Heaven, Kay (2010)
    (1)  Tigana, Kay (1990)
    (1)  Of Blood and Honey, Leicht (2011)
    (1)  Redemption in Indigo, Lord (2010)
    (1)  The Dream of Perpetual Motion, Palmer (2010)
    (1)  The Fuzzy Papers, Piper (1964)
    (1)  The Hogfather, Pratchett (1996)
    (1)  Dreadful Skin (werewolf), Priest (2007)
    (1)  The Legend Of Nightfall, Reichert (1993)
    (1)  Blood Song, Ryan (2012)
    (1)  The Last Wish, Sapkowski (1993)
    (1)  The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Sherrill (2000)
    (1)  Talion: Revenant, Stackpole (1997)
    (1)  Vampire$, Steakley (1990)
    (1)  Silmarillion, Tolkien (1977)



    "STANDALONE" BOOKS - SCI-FI

    Spoiler! 
    (8)  The Forever War, Haldeman (1974)
    (7)  Ender's Game, Card (1985)
    (5)  Old Man's War, Scalzi (2004)
    (4)  Snow Crash, Stephenson (1992)
    (3)  Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Adams (1979)
    (3)  Eon, Bear (1985)
    (3)  The Three-Body Problem, Cixin (2015)
    (3)  Ready Player One, Cline (2011)
    (3)  Leviathan Wakes (Expanse), Corey (2011)
    (3)  Ubik, $#@! (1969)
    (3)  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein (1966)
    (3)  Aurora, Robinson (2015)
    (3)  Sevenses, Stephenson (2015)
    (3)  The Diamond Age, Stephenson (1995)
    (3)  Anathem, Stephenson (1992)
    (3)  We are Legion (We are Bob), Taylor (2016)
    (2)  The Windup Girl, Bacigalupi (2009)
    (2)  Childhood's End, Clarke (1953)
    (2)  Starship Troopers, Heinlein (1959)
    (2)  Glory Road, Heinlein (1963)
    (2)  I Am Legend, Matheson (1954)
    (2)  A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller (1959)
    (2)  Market Forces, Morgan (2005)
    (2)  Nexus, Naam (2013)
    (2)  Redshirts, Scalzi (2012)
    (2)  Armor, Steakley (1984)
    (2)  The Mechanical, Tregillis (2015)
    (2)  The Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut (1959)
    (2)  Starfish, Watts (1999)
    (1)  The Water Knife, Bacigalupi (2015)
    (1)  The Helmsman, Baldwin (1983)
    (1)  When Heaven Fell, Barton (1995)
    (1)  Dark Sky Legion, Barton (2011)
    (1)  The Berlin Project, Benford (2017)
    (1)  Fahreheit 451, Bradbury (1953)
    (1)  Speaker for the Dead, Card (1986)
    (1)  Earth Unaware, Card (2012)
    (1)  Treason, Card (1979)
    (1)  Airframe, Crichton (1996)
    (1)  Eaters of the Dead, Crichton (1976)
    (1)  Andromeda Strain, Crichton (1969)
    (1)  Prey, Crichton (2002)
    (1)  The Passage, Cronin (2010)
    (1)  Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy, Datlow (2010)
    (1)  The Bathrobe Knight, Dean (2015)
    (1)  Dhalgren, Delany (1974)
    (1)  The Man in the High Castle, $#@! (1962)
    (1)  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, $#@! (1975)
    (1)  The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, $#@! (1965)
    (1)  For the Win, Doctorow (2010)
    (1)  Neuromancer, Gibson (1984)
    (1)  Fallen Dragon, Hamilton (2001)
    (1)  The Gone-Away World, Harkaway (2008)
    (1)  Stranger In A Strange Land, Heinlein (1961)
    (1)  Battlefield Earth , Hubbard (1982)
    (1)  Fitzpatrick's War (steampunk), Judson (2004)
    (1)  The Dispossessed, Le Guin (1975)
    (1)  The Lathe of Heaven, Le Guin (1971)
    (1)  The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin (1969)
    (1)  His Master's Voice, Lem (1968)
    (1)  Gun, With Occasional Music, Lethem (1994)
    (1)  Up Against It, Locke (2011)
    (1)  Solar Express, Modesitt (2015)
    (1)  Black Man / Thirteen, Morgan (2007)
    (1)  Lucifer's Hammer, Niven (1977)
    (1)  Footfall, Niven and Pournelle (1985)
    (1)  Mote In God's Eye, Niven and Pournelle (1974)
    (1)  Anubis Gates, Powers (1997)
    (1)  Last Call, Powers (2013)
    (1)  The Sparrow, Russell (1996)
    (1)  Contact, Sagan (1985)
    (1)  The Collapsing Empire, Scalzi (2017)
    (1)  Ventus, Schroeder (2000)
    (1)  Empire Games, Stross (2017)
    (1)  Acts of the Apostles, Sundman (1999)
    (1)  Aurorama, Valtat (2010)
    (1)  Tales of the Dying Earth, Vance (1998)
    (1)  Lord of Light, Zelazny (1967)



    ALL (MORE THAN ONE RECOMMENDATION)

    Spoiler! 
    (15)  Kingkiller Chronicles, Rothfuss (2007) - Fantasy
    (8)  The Forever War, Haldeman (1974) - Sci-Fi
    (8)  The Hyperion Cantos, Simmons (1989) - Sci-Fi
    (7)  Red Rising, Brown (2014) - Sci-Fi
    (7)  Ender's Game, Card (1985) - Sci-Fi
    (6)  The Expanse, Corey (2011) - Sci-Fi
    (6)  Dune Chronicles, Herbert (1965) - Sci-Fi
    (5)  First Law Trilogy, Abercrombie (2007) - Fantasy
    (5)  Prince of Nothing, Bakker (2003) - Fantasy
    (5)  Shannara (various), Brooks (1977) - Fantasy
    (5)  The Riftwar Saga, Feist (1982) - Fantasy
    (5)  Mars Trilogy (Red, Blue, Green), Robinson (1993) - Sci-Fi
    (5)  Old Man's War, Scalzi (2004) - Sci-Fi
    (4)  The Culture Cycle (Consider Phlebas), Banks (1987) - Sci-Fi
    (4)  Demon Cycle (The Warden Man), Brett (2008) - Fantasy
    (4)  Fillory (The Magicians), Grossman (2009) - Fantasy
    (4)  Takeshi Kovacs (Altered Carbon), Morgan (2006) - Sci-Fi
    (4)  Raven's Shadow (Blood Song), Ryan (2011) - Fantasy
    (4)  Mistborn Trilogy, Sanderson (2009) - Fantasy
    (4)  Old Man's War Series, Scalzi (2005) - Sci-Fi
    (4)  Snow Crash, Stephenson (1992) - Sci-Fi
    (4)  Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Williams (2005) - Fantasy
    (4)  Thrawn, Zahn (2017) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  Shattered Sea, Abercrombie (2014) - Fantasy
    (3)  Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Adams (1979) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  The Xeelee Sequence, Baxter (1991) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  Forge of God, Bear (1987) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  Eon, Bear (1985) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  The Dresden Files, Butcher (2000) - Fantasy
    (3)  Codex Alera, Butcher (2004) - Fantasy
    (3)  The Ender Wiggin Saga, Card (1985) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  The Three-Body Problem, Cixin (2015) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  Ready Player One, Cline (2011) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  The Black Company (various), Cook (1984) - Fantasy
    (3)  Leviathan Wakes (Expanse), Corey (2011) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  The Passage , Cronin (2010) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  Ubik, $#@! (1969) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Donaldson (1977) - Fantasy
    (3)  Malazan Book of the Fallen, Erikson (1999) - Fantasy
    (3)  Sword of Truth, Goodkind (1995) - Fantasy
    (3)  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein (1966) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  Wheel of Time, Jordan and Sanderson (1990) - Fantasy
    (3)  A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin (1996) - Fantasy
    (3)  Powder Mage Trilogy, McClellan (2013) - Fantasy
    (3)  Discworld, Pratchett (1983) - Fantasy
    (3)  Aurora, Robinson (2015) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  Cosmere: The Stormlight Archive, Sanderson (2010) - Fantasy
    (3)  The Chronicle of The Unhewn Throne, Staveley (2014) - Fantasy
    (3)  Sevenses, Stephenson (2015) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  The Diamond Age, Stephenson (1995) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  Anathem, Stephenson (1992) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  We are Legion (We are Bob), Taylor (2016) - Sci-Fi
    (3)  The Death Gate Cycle, Weis and Hickman (1990) - Fantasy
    (3)  The Chronicles of Amber, Zelazny (1999) - Fantasy
    (2)  The First Law Universe, Abercrombie (2009) - Fantasy
    (2)  The Windup Girl, Bacigalupi (2009) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Divine Cities (City of Stairs), Bennett (2014) - Fantasy
    (2)  Magic Kingdom of Landover, Brooks (1986) - Fantasy
    (2)  Vlad Taltos, Brust (1983) - Fantasy
    (2)  Childhood's End, Clarke (1953) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Hunger Games, Collins (2008) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Malloreon, Eddings (1987) - Fantasy
    (2)  The Belgariad, Eddings (1982) - Fantasy
    (2)  American Gods, Gaiman (2001) - Fantasy
    (2)  Drenai Saga, Gemmell (1984) - Fantasy
    (2)  The Sprawl Trilogy, Gibson (1984) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Night's Dawn Trilogy, Hamilton (1996) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  Starship Troopers, Heinlein (1959) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  Glory Road, Heinlein (1963) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy, Hobb (2014) - Fantasy
    (2)  Silo (Wool), Howey (2012) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Keyes (2003) - Fantasy
    (2)  The Broken Empire, Lawrence (2011) - Fantasy
    (2)  Gentleman Bastard, Lynch (2006) - Fantasy
    (2)  Skin Trade, Martin (1988) - Fantasy
    (2)  I Am Legend, Matheson (1954) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy, McCaffrey (1968) - Fantasy
    (2)  A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller (1959) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Saga of Recluse, Modesitt (1991) - Fantasy
    (2)  The Elric Saga (Elric of Melnibone), Moor$#@! (1987) - Fantasy
    (2)  Market Forces, Morgan (2005) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  Nexus, Naam (2013) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Ringworld Series, Niven (1970) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Heechee Saga (Gateway), Pohl (1977) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  (various) Drizzt Do'Urden character (Dark Elf-Homeland), Salvatore (1990) - Fantasy
    (2)  Elantris, Sanderson (2005) - Fantasy
    (2)  The Way of Kings, Sanderson (2010) - Fantasy
    (2)  Redshirts, Scalzi (2012) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  Prayers to Broken Stones, Simmons (1990) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  Armor, Steakley (1984) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  Lord of the Rings, Tolkien (1954) - Fantasy
    (2)  The Hobbit, Tolkien (1937) - Fantasy
    (2)  The Mechanical, Tregillis (2015) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut (1959) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  Starfish, Watts (1999) - Sci-Fi
    (2)  The Shadow Campaigns, Wexler (2013) - Fantasy
    (2)  A Dream of Eagles, Whyte (1992) - Fantasy
    (2)  Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Zahn (1991) - Sci-Fi
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  3. 13 hours ago, El Moco said:

    I’m not fat, I’m pleasantly plump.  She’s not a size 4 anymore either.  It’s more like, she’s tired all the time.  Sex or not.

    May be a hormone thing (if she’s near that age).  Try to get her to go for a jog with you and get some of those endorphins pumping.

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  4. On 4/13/2018 at 10:54 AM, BurntEyes said:

    This clown has lost his mind. That is the worst Jeep engine made and it's in shitty shape. Finally, you can damn near get a new entry level for that cost or at least a huge down payment. Yeah I think it is $10kish more but still...

    I’ll sell you my 2000 wrangler sport for an even $10,000.00 but you’ll have to give me an answer now.  Cash only, no refunds.

  5. 1 hour ago, irishtexan said:

    I’m not gonna sweat it. If we win this year, I think pretty much everyone will be in play. If we disappoint I don’t see Herman hanging around past year three and we probably reboot the whole fucking thing. Again.

    Strong got three years (which is basically the shortest amount of time that’s considered acceptable for a major college football program without a sandal) with less to show than Herman currently has at this moment and it still took losing to KANSAS to get him fired after year 3.  It would be highly improbable that Herman gets forced out before his 4th year.  But we can have that debate on another thread if needed.

     

    yall need to calm down, signing day isn’t until December and we have a long way to go before anyone should be getting worried.

  6. The big question is how do you want to interact with it.   By now they are all so similar that they aren’t that different.  If you use the Wemo app Nest integrates with it a Google home but not Apple home kit.  I think ecobee works with home kit.  Honestly the biggest struggle with the smart home is getting everything accessible without having 10 different apps.

     

    if you’re a set it and forget it kind of guy then it doesn’t matter that much but I have a nest and regret it because it doesn’t work with Apple HomeKit though there is nothing wrong with the product itself.

  7. On 4/7/2018 at 11:34 AM, joe dirt said:

    my biggest problem is that i want to control everything in one app.  being an apple whore isn’t helping my situation either.

    anybody use a wink hub or something similar?

    Apple has announced that it’ll be opening up its smart home features.  Previous to get into apples Home ecosystem you had to have an apple approved hardware which limited their products.  Now they are moving toward software security and it’ll allow for more providers to get in the game.  I have a smart hub but I hate it.  I’m hoping apple can figure out a way to take over this space and make my life easier.  (I can dream)

     

    I have alarm.com , linq garage, August smart lock and doorbell cam, hue lights, wemo switches, a nest and a smart things hub that I only really use for 1 z wave light switch.

  8. 26 minutes ago, ZanTheFan said:

    for as frequently as I use it the lowball was well worth the 20 bucks or whatever I paid for it

    That’s the thing, their products really are great but how many different coolers and cups do you need?  At some point the market is going to stagnate and when you’ve sold X many to your target demo with disposable income while other less affluent prospects have other options that do 80% of the work at 50% of the price your really just selling and brand to 90% of your buyers as only about 10% (probably less than that) truly need a cooler that keeps ice for 72 hours.  Unless they can innovate and come up with another reason for people to replace their $500 cooler with a newer model they’ll never strike it rich.  They can be a successful small company cracking out a limited run of their niche product set each year but their shot at a big payday has passed.

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