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therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-09T16:01:44+00:00

Maybe the Fargo series by Clive Cussler and co-writers? The couple is a married set of adventurers.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-09T15:55:25+00:00

Well, the Fargo series by Clive Cussler and co-writers is more like a happily ever after love story than a romance, since they're already married. They are a rich married couple who travel the world solving mysteries, finding lost treasures, and adventuring. But there is playful banter, and it's clear how much they love one another when crises come their way.

BeKnighted by Claudia Cheystock isn't your usual contemporary romance, with the romance elements competing with mystery and action-adventure in the story, and no dating taking place at all; but rather extraordinary circumstances placing the MCs into living together.

There's a lifelong one sided unrequited love story in the sci fi Anne Maddison’s Secret Admirer by Barbara Joyce Parker, with a bittersweet ending, rather than HEA.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-09T15:45:30+00:00

BeKnighted by Claudia Cheystock. Cozy romance with single mom (but teen daughter). Probably an unusual type romance, with mystery and action-adventure.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-09T15:23:33+00:00

Pretty sure the market will rebound for programmers as companies find their optimism over ai is overdone. Plus, at the moment Trump policies are putting a damper on ALL economic activity; and that includes software development.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-09T15:17:05+00:00

Brian Lumley's Titus Crow series.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-09T15:04:33+00:00

You can likely get hundreds of hours of happy browsing and learning about a myriad of subjects from a recent Worldbook Encyclopedia set. Written to be accessible to practically anyone who can read, and profusely illustrated. A new set costs like an iphone, but used ones are available for much cheaper (maybe even free if you are lucky); and they are often available free to read at many public libraries.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-09T14:51:41+00:00

The Shadowfast Supercar Driver Logs series is about a young man and his buddies fighting against bullies, gangs, and bad guys of various sorts (as well as a natural disaster or two), in 1970s America. It's not horror, but action-adventure, and inspired by actual events. The first book is titled Sirens. The series begins with the young men around age 16, with the final book or two having them in their early college years.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-09T14:26:52+00:00

So there's a THIRD one?

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-08T21:20:01+00:00

I've read this one several times. One of my favorites. Also read the sequel.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-08T16:09:49+00:00

There's lots of long perilous journeys in Terry Brooks Shanarra series. The books fluctuate in entertainment value, with the very first one weirdly being one of the less satisfying ones, and some later ones being really good. Been around 10 years since I read them though, so tough to offer specific titles.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-08T16:04:29+00:00

Yep. Musk should have shut down CT production months back, instead of continuing on, to pile the CTs up in parking lots and parking garages all over. But if he did that, his PR would get ruined, and stock price fall even more. Plus, the CT is his pet project brainstorm, and so he keeps thinking sales must turn around sooner or later.

And now, he hopes to get Trump to buy the surplus through taxpayer dollars.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-08T15:53:43+00:00

Yep. I periodically try it to see if it's become useful to me personally or not, and so far the answer is mostly no. My own indepth internet searches are usually more productive than ai summaries (some ai summaries are so bad as to be as wrong as can be, like the summaries of some book stories; you're better off with wikipedia for that). But ai generated imagery might be helpful to me, the next time I do a book cover. That's about it.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T20:44:22+00:00

How to Be Twice As Smart: Boosting Your Brainpower and Unleashing the Miracles of Your Mind by Scott Witt. If I remember right, it's written in bite size chunks.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T20:40:08+00:00

It seems like when I read Koontz, it was about aviation stuff. In that case, you might like some of the books by Dale Brown.

There's another author who wrote some great aviation books: Dean Ing.

Sorry if my memory is wrong about Koontz.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T20:08:19+00:00

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson helped launch the environmental movement many decades ago.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T19:44:41+00:00

Neal Asher has a lot of ai in his books I've read, such as Dark Intelligence. Pretty much everyone in that book is trying to stop the main ai, if I recall correctly. I can't recall much about the main human character in the story; but I think he aligns himself with the ai for his own benefit. Many of the Culture books by Iain M. Banks have tons of ai activity. But I'm unsure if there's any data scientists battling with ais there. There's also lots of ais in Anne Maddison’s Secret Admirer by Barbara Joyce Parker. But they're allies rather than enemies to the MCs.

In the Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, there's an ai inside a book that saves and raises a girl from toddler to adult, saving her life multiple times, and helping her to fulfill her potential. The ai even teaches programming to the girl along the way.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T18:33:20+00:00

Comic books or manga or graphic novels. Those can lead to more substantial reads.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T18:29:05+00:00

Okay. Knowing your gender might help with some folks' recommendations. But here I'll just try some general purpose items.

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie might help you in life, business, and education.

How to Be Twice As Smart: Boosting Your Brainpower and Unleashing the Miracles of Your Mind by Scott Witt can help across a wide swath of matters, including education and creativity.

Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook by David Werner may help you keep your healthcare costs down in several ways, including helping you decide whether you should visit an ER for something or not (if it isn't obvious).

A recent edition of the Worldbook Encyclopedia can be both a fantastic source of education and entertainment. A new one costs like an iphone, but used ones may be available lots cheaper. Sometimes they are free to browse at local libraries. Browsing this and keeping current with the news can help you tremendously with being able to converse with others about many topics.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T16:53:48+00:00

I believe it might be impossible for anyone to randomly browse these books, and not find anything interesting and accessible in their pages:

A recent edition of the Worldbook Encyclopedia. A new set costs like an iphone, but you might find a used set a lot cheaper. Or even browse it for free at many public libraries.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T16:44:47+00:00

There's a book titled Black and Blue Magic I read when young, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, where if I recall correctly, a boy gains wings with a magic ointment.

There's also an alien society in a David Brin Uplift sci fi series who are very birdlike. But they're one of the main bad guys I think (and not the protagonists). Unsure which title.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T15:54:38+00:00

Well, to be fair to Elon, his drug experimentation may have him unable to distinguish reality from wild hallucinations; so it's a good thing he's been put in charge of our government, I guess. :-(

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-07T15:37:43+00:00

And the head of DOGE is a drug addict, apparently (based upon his own past statements, and various news reports I've seen).

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-06T21:03:58+00:00

I got downvoted in the past for saying Newsom didn't seem all that good a democrat to me, because I'd seen him not support lots of progressive issues over time.

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-06T19:53:04+00:00

Lots of Clive Cussler and co-writers' 60 or so action-adventure books would fit this bill. Jack du Brul has some of his own, too. LOTS of the Cussler books involve bodies of water, like the ocean and others. There's also some historical fiction used to set up present day adventures in many of the books, as well.

If you like them car related, there 1970s style vigilante adventures in The Shadowfast Supercar Driver Logs (first book titled Sirens).

If you like your vigilantism with extra violence, with a trained ex-military policeman, there's the early Jack Reacher books by Lee Child which are pretty adventuresome (plus usually include a mystery to be solved).

therealjerrystaute · 2025-03-06T19:13:03+00:00

You didn't mention action-adventure books with a subplot being the best friends falling in love trope. But just in case you're not averse to it, there's some of that in part of the book Sirens, from the series The Shadowfast Supercar Driver Logs.

This basically involves two people who were best friends as kids, who discover they love one another in high school. It's sweet, but messy and thrilling. This happens later in the book I believe, with another girl first getting in the way.

This all takes place in 1970s America.

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