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Joe’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Joe’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Joe Clifford Faust’s Followers (32)
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Joe Clifford Faust
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
March 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/joe_clifford_faust
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A DEATH OF HONOR
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1987
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5 editions
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Desperate Measures (Angel's Luck #1)
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1989
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7 editions
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Drawing Down The Moon
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2015
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3 editions
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Precious Cargo (Angel's Luck #2)
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1989
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6 editions
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The Company Man
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1988
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7 editions
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The Essence of Evil: (#3) (Book Three of Angel's Luck)
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1990
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6 editions
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Ferman's Devils
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1996
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4 editions
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Boddekker's Demons
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1997
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4 editions
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The Mushroom Shift
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2011
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3 editions
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Handling It: How I Got Rich and Famous, Made Media Stars Out of Common Street Scum and Almost Got the Girl: Includes Ferman's Devils and Boddekker's Demons
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1997
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Another Year
So it’s a long story, but the TL;DR version is, around the time I turned 40, I decided it was time I taught myself to play the guitar. I just wanted to play some Al Stewart songs, but as soon as I could jump from E minor to G, songs started coming out of me, and I never did learn Stewart’s Modern Times.
I ended up with quite a backlog of songs I didn’t do anything with because I couldn’t play well
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"I realized in that single moment that the brotherhood the Hells Angels claimed to be a part of was nothing more than a support group for misunderstood loners held together by hate and money." A harrowing account of an ATF agent who goes undercover to ...more |
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Man, it's Elmore Leonard. The guy is a master. There's a reason he's my favorite fiction author. Just read it. ...more |
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What's going on in the non-fiction world? The last couple of books I've read in that genre have read like they were written for middle schoolers - this one included. That said, this tells the interesting story of "the birth of tabloid justice' - a cla ...more |
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Meh. So the Edwardian charm of Wells' earlier novels is gone with this one. We get the story of a slacker who spends his time pining for a woman and pining for England to become a socialist utopia. When the woman throws him over for a man with money, ...more |
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What a trip this book was! If you know of this book only from the BEM movie(s) it has inspired over the decades, you owe this a read. First, the elephant in the room. Yes, this book is the source for the Giant Animals Attack film of the same name, an ...more |
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| I suppose this is the Seinfeld of literary novels. It's a slice of life, where nothing happens for most of the book and then the much talked-about shocking twist, which pretty much comes out of nowhere. I understand why Russo did it that way - for th ...more | |
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What a trip this book was! If you know of this book only from the BEM movie(s) it has inspired over the decades, you owe this a read. First, the elephant in the room. Yes, this book is the source for the Giant Animals Attack film of the same name, an ...more |
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“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.”
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“I didn’t want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I wasn’t interested in the people who shaped the future. I was more interested in people who were shaped by the future. People who were products of their environment.”
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