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G. Gruen

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One-time advertising writer/producer turned screenwriter, now a two-time self-published novelist. Two books published: "The Uniform," a Holocaust thriller based on my father's experience as a labor camp during the Second World War and "The Ride of a Lifetime, a Crime Thriller." Lover of big ideas, satire, sports, and dogs. I live in a tony suburb somewhere near Los Angeles. ...more

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Brilliantly conceived and chock full of authentic detail, it put me right in the middle of small town Virginia just as the County of Charren is forced to deal with a grisly series of child murders. Titus Crown, the lead character, is a former FBI age ...more
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I read this book because I'm about to write a wartime novel with a female protagonist and thought this could offer useful insight, not because the subject matter (combat nurses in Viet Nam) interested me. But damn if I didn't find it gripping, engagi ...more
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I've got another week or so to go. Nevertheless, this book, about evolution from animals to human culture, from religion to science and money to happiness, is blowing my mind. A great read. There's so much detail, I think I'm absorbing it more thorou ...more
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“When you've worn a target on your back for as long as the Jews had, it can be difficult to divine the difference between garden variety prejudice and catastrophe.”
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“How could a man possibly sound more alive when talking about death?”
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“In that world, ethnic malice cut far deeper than everyday insult. It cost people freedom, homes, families and lives,”
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