I think I still have a copy of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock around somewhere. I should read it again to see if he got anything right.

>Cold War Swap is quite good. Oliver Bleek stuff is hard to find - I am always searching used bookstores for the old paperbacks. ( I think I have them all now, but can never remember which ones I've loaned out or lost or am somehow missing so whenever i see one I buy it just one spec.
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>>I got Briarpatch and The Cold War Swap. When I'm starting with a new author, I like to read their stuff chronologically, although if it's not a "series" it really doesn't matter I suppose. So, Cold War Swap was his first book, but Briarpatch wasn't next chronologically ... maybe you mentioned it before in another post and that's why I got it.
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>>So, of your 5 favorites that you mentioned, 3 of them are available on Kindle: Missionary Stew, The Fools in Town, Out on the Rim. I just may have to try those samples too. <g>
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>>There aren't any Kindle versions available for Oliver Bleek.
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>>>He won the Edgar for Briarpatch but my personal favorites include The Eighth Dwarf, Missionary Stew, The Fools in Town, Chinaman's Chance and Out on the Rim He also wrote under the name of Oliver Bleek and that stuff is terrific as well. Very character driven stuff. Absolutely no doubt the people are real ( we talked about that part of it - we shared a belief it doens't matter who done it - it matters that all the people are real. ) The last two on the list above feature Quincy Durant and Artie Woo. You won't find characters like them anywhere else in fiction - but they definitely exist.
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>>>Which 2 samples did you get?
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>>>>I downloaded samples of two of Ross Thomas's books to my Kindle (based on your previos comments about his writing), but haven't had the chance to read the samples yet. I'm sure I'll end up buying them.
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>>>>That would be cool if you'd publish your book(s) on Kindle. I didn't know that you could self-publish. That's pretty cool. I'd buy it!! ;0)
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>>>>~~Bonnie