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"The City and the Stars" by Arthur C. Clarke.
Great story, mind stretching and definitely encouraging to existential contemplation! 
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Catcher in the Rye? Respectfully, no.
IMO, this is more like it: The Secret Garden - Wikipedia
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I started reading "I Robot" by Isaac Asimov when I was 8. It is a book of short stories and first introduced me to the world of Technology. They are, for the most part, little mysteries, and highly enjoyable.
Yeah, you rite. Go Saints!
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I would recommend the Jack London stories (ie: White Fang, Call of The Wild).
They are great stories for the young and I believe he also wrote quite a few short stories as well.
They also should have been translated into many languages by now.
Catcher in The Rye is really not a story for young lady. This is why it usually read only by more senior high-school students...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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How about A Wrinkle in Time? Age appropriate and easy to read, but with some depth. That's the one that started my life-long love of science fiction.
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I'd suggest:-
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Just So Stories
Cry the Beloved Country (as much for the beautiful English as the story)
Swallows and Amazons
for starters.
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A little lighter reading, well written and entertaining, all my kids enjoyed listening on long drives:
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
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...because you can never have too much schadenfreude in your life...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo
My, so far foolproof, defense against this sort of scum has been to specify as a dropoff location a grimy battered rubbermade box of the sort that gets used to store potting soil, gardening tools, and etc.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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saddest part is many of the victims thieves feel they've been hard done by.
(and sure as sh*t if this happens too much highly likely the PC idiots will make it illegal.)
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lopati: roaming wrote: highly likely the PC idiots will make it illegal
Yes, they'd probably call it "entrapment" or some such nonsense.
Personally, I believe that anyone who commits (a) trespass with intent to commit a crime, and (b) petty (or grand) theft deserves anything that they get, up to and including a couple of canisters of buckshot.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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As long as the cops don't do it, not entrapment.
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I just watched it before coming into work and towards the end some of the guys laugh after the fart spray goes off.
One thing that occurred to me was that it all depends on the package being opened the right way up otherwise the glitter will fall out of it.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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OK, so it's not perfect. However, the designers deserve a  for fighting back against such scum.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: One thing that occurred to me was that it all depends on the package being opened the right way up otherwise the glitter will fall out of it.
I think the shape, size, and the slide-off cover discourage opening it any other way -- the top is too wide to grab with one hand.
Mind, I was thinking myself that if it were just tossed into a car, and bounced about on its side while being driven, it would lose a bit of glitter.
I guess "over-engineering" included a rubber seal in the box cover (a tearaway polythene seal would be too likely to "misfire").
I still think he should have plastered the box with official warning and "Danger Will Robinson!" signs, then filled it with caustic soda.
Giving a bit of a scare to people who do such damage to society can't be a bad thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Good point about the slide-off cover - that probably ensures that in most cases the box is opened with the glitter facing up.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The glitter and stench are the delivered scare. Throwing a caustic agent in the scum's face would elevate it from expert level trolling to assault.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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People who steal from other people's homes cause untold misery. You see all those stories of how people don't feel safe in their own homes? They all have one and the same cause.
While I would never seriously consider doing these scum serious physical harm, because they don't actually physically harm anyone, it's still a pleasing thing to think about.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The real problem is that the various delivery services just leave the package on the porch, even when they are sent "signature required". They used to leave a note saying they had attempted delivery of a package, and take the package back, not leave it.
I have all of mine delivered to my place of work. (BTW they never leave packages at commercial locations, like they do at residences. What's up with that?) 
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IIRC both Fedex and UPS's we didn't deliver because you weren't here to sign slips have a Deliver Without Signing by Default in the future checkbox. This gets more special in that shippers can apparently say "no I really mean it about the signature" and leave me with 1 or 2 notices/year anyway; some but not all of which I can opt out on an individual basis by signing the note and others that require in person delivery anyway.
For USPS you can do the same but it was a bit more convoluted in that it was a separate form (paper? web?) not a checkbox on the delivery failure notice. I only setup the USPS thing a few months ago after discovering it existed over an international-mail-with-tracking package; so i'm not sure if they've got a multi-tiered optout garbage fire or not.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If you say "space ghettos" in an American accent, it actually sounds like you're saying "spice girls" in a scottish accent.got a feeling this only works if you're English but ....
I haven't been able to stop doing this all day. I'd be interested to know if Americans just say it normally sounds the same.
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So this confirms that space ghettos are a bad thing.
Anything that sounds like the spice girls is a bad thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I am fairly certain that this is all relative to where you are listening to a spice girl at. I am sure certain locations sound just fine - know what I mean? nudge, nudge, say no more.
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You should just stop right there - thank you very much!
(Getting that out of your head is left as an exercise for the reader!)
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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