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Alec Cizak

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Crime, Horror, Thriller

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Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and braised pork belly.

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Alec Cizak was dropped off on the planet Earth by Lao Tzu after the old wizard made love to a seven-legged go-go dancer from the interior regions of Neptune. The dancer refused to care for the infant Cizak and so Lao Tzu brought the baby to Earth and left him with a cult of syphilitic monks on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Cizak was granted immortality by the goddess Molena, a stripper from Spain, on the condition that he never reveal her recipe for spaghetti and eyeball soup. Unable to contain this magnificent secret, Cizak whispered the recipe to a Belgium nun named Poinsettia. The goddess Molena cursed Cizak to mortality and a bit of talent as a writer no significant number of his fellow mortals would ever care too much about. He curre ...more

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	Down on the Street 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pulp Modern: Volume 2 Number 1 by Alec Cizak (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard Krauss (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Rogers 4.72 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crooked Roads 4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lake County Incidents 4.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manifesto Destination 4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L.A. Stories: Three Grindhouse Novellas (Uncle B. Publications, LLC Book 9) by Alec Cizak (Goodreads Author), Scotch Rutherford, Andrew Miller (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nobody's Coming Home 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weren't Another Other Way to Be: Outlaw Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Waylon Jennings (Gutter Books Rock Anthology Series) by Alec Cizak (Goodreads Author), Trevor Holliday (Goodreads Author), January Bain (Goodreads Author) 4.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breaking Glass 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pulp Modern, Autumn 2011 by Alec Cizak (Goodreads Author), Thomas Pluck, David James Keaton (Goodreads Author) 4.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Alec Cizak liked Sondra's review of Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service: "7 great mysteries solved by an entertaining PI. He isn’t my favorite main character ever but I liked him well enough, with the exception of a few lines. What I didn’t expect was the raunchiness of this book. Definitely not one to read in public if yo" Read more of this review »
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Alec Cizak liked Russell Thayer's review of Nobody's Coming Home: "These are honest, well-written stories about people on a downward trajectory. Mostly from the same fictional rural community. A couple of my favorites are "The Bag Girl," "Cymbaline," and "The Thing About Padlocks." Highly recommend."
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Alec Cizak rated a book it was amazing Under the Table by Vern Smith (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Almost didn't read this because of reviews suggesting the plot was "muddled." Those reviewers must not be too bright. I found the plot easy to follow and the book, overall, fantastic. ...more
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