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Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Matt’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Matt Orlando
Goodreads Author
Born
in Huntington Beach, The United States
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Influences
Member Since
May 2020
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/mattyobooks
The Writer’s Voice
One of the things I love most about reading is how distinct a writer’s voice can be. Even when one is similar to another, they’re never exactly the same.
This writer has a voice like no other.
And what’s the difference? We’re all mostly using the same words. Nothing outside the realm of getting the gist of what the author is saying in context when you don’t know what a word means. If a writer wro
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“What led me here to this moment was somehow a culmination of everything that started after the Big Bang, the creation of the Earth, and then all that nature that happened over the eons, where most animals died, but we developed these incredible brains as fantastical as the universe itself, and we had ancestors that started as some sort of mollusk probably, but still we evolved and evolved surviving all the hardships that were somehow helping, and in some ways guiding us to what we became, and what we ended up with was the, “Do I go to work or stay and home and jack off?” war.”
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“We camped in an RV parked in the middle of an intersection on PCH and Mahar Avenue. We laughed, we drank, I told them stories, and even dipped their chips in dog food for them. If you’ve never seen a drunk crow, It’s hilarious.”
― Truncated II: A Cold Day in Heaven
― Truncated II: A Cold Day in Heaven
“Nick heard the glass set down on a hard surface. His inclination was to turn. To watch. But there was something in the manners of it all. Like he was bound by tradition. He couldn’t turn to the man who’s wife he was fucking that he found dead days later. Nick wondered if the guy could have done it. Slipped into the property and hung her.”
― Westgate: A Nick Marino Mystery
― Westgate: A Nick Marino Mystery
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| Indie Crime Fiction: Authors of Cozy Mysteries, needing reviews. | 5 | 11 | Feb 15, 2022 08:04AM | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: * Tell us about your books: Historical Crime Fiction/Mysteries | 30 | 293 | Sep 12, 2022 04:36PM | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: * Tell us about your books: Mysteries and Thrillers on the lighter side | 28 | 325 | Sep 12, 2022 04:38PM | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: * Tell us about your books: Futuristic/Apocalyptic/Techno Thrillers | 22 | 270 | Sep 12, 2022 04:43PM | |
| Apocalypse Whenever: * FREE books and stories (PERMANENTLY FREE) [@] | 93 | 947 | Sep 12, 2022 05:05PM | |
| Apocalypse Whenever: Truncated: Apocalyptic and Loving It! | 1 | 6 | Sep 12, 2022 05:07PM | |
| Connecting Reader...: Truncated by Matt Orlando | 1 | 1 | Sep 12, 2022 05:14PM | |
| Connecting Reader...: Westgate by Matt Orlando | 1 | 1 | Sep 12, 2022 05:15PM | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: * Tell us about your books: Police Procedural/Forensic Crime | 27 | 328 | Feb 13, 2024 10:21AM |
“We camped in an RV parked in the middle of an intersection on PCH and Mahar Avenue. We laughed, we drank, I told them stories, and even dipped their chips in dog food for them. If you’ve never seen a drunk crow, It’s hilarious.”
― Truncated II: A Cold Day in Heaven
― Truncated II: A Cold Day in Heaven
“What led me here to this moment was somehow a culmination of everything that started after the Big Bang, the creation of the Earth, and then all that nature that happened over the eons, where most animals died, but we developed these incredible brains as fantastical as the universe itself, and we had ancestors that started as some sort of mollusk probably, but still we evolved and evolved surviving all the hardships that were somehow helping, and in some ways guiding us to what we became, and what we ended up with was the, “Do I go to work or stay and home and jack off?” war.”
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“This near-mediocrity carried its own special kind of boredom, an almost polished, plastic kind reminiscent of a Malibu Barbie dollhouse. It appears shiny and neat, but really you are trapped for eternity, looking out at a world with a smile that feels like someone else painted on you, rather than your own. I wasn’t Ken. But more like Ken’s decent looking friend, Bill.”
― Truncated: Apocalyptic and Loving It!: Book 1 of the Post Apocalyptic Survival Series
― Truncated: Apocalyptic and Loving It!: Book 1 of the Post Apocalyptic Survival Series
“I reached for the back of his head and jammed the knife as hard as I could under his ribs. I felt his warm pee dribble down my gown and my legs and into my boots and I almost retched, but his wild eyes were staring into mine as he tried to pull back, but I had his neck, and his hands were trapped down on his wiener, and he was still peeing and we stared and glared and he peed and I tried to twist the knife harder, the pee making me angry and I wanted to kill him faster, and the fucker just stared and wouldn’t die…”
― Truncated II: A Cold Day in Heaven
― Truncated II: A Cold Day in Heaven
“Two weeks. He’d only been here two weeks. Five weeks ago, he was a cop. Now he was staring at the manicured toes of a pretty decent looking cougar as they swayed back and forth three feet off the ground. She was wearing that light blue silk robe. Maybe it was silk. He didn’t really have a clue. But she had looked good in it.”
― Westgate: A Nick Marino Mystery
― Westgate: A Nick Marino Mystery
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