John Raptor
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Born
in Kagoshima, Japan
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Influences
Member Since
August 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/johnraptor
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Room 6 at the Lonely Motel. A womb. A tomb. One of my favorite narrative-styles is characters just telling stories--especially when those stories involve Trauma Trauma Trauma! And these short, gross-out tales all tie together brilliantly to form a lar ...more |
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| This book is an emotional roller coaster. One moment you're disgusted at the delight that these monsters take in torturing and SA-ing their victims, the next you feel empathy for the abuse they suffered at the hands of the abusers they are torturing. ...more | |
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Wow! Baby Bones by R.J. Powell grabbed me by the guts and unspooled them on the floor. At first, Baby Bones feels like one of Dorothy Allison's stories from her collection TRASH, depicting a broken mother/daughter relationship and the poverty-stricke ...more |
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| Another great Lovecraftian horror from Dr. Henk Wester. In 2005, the world was invaded by strange cosmic horrors. IBCRA (International Bureau for Category Red Anomalies) is tasked with investigating these horrors: giant clowns with elephant trunks; a ...more | |
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| Wtf did I just read!? This book is fcking bonkers!! There's a sex scene in this book that makes the one in Dead Inside look like a Saturday morning kid's cartoon. I couldn't believe what I was reading. One of the characters has a traumatic backstory ...more | |
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| This book was a fckin trip! It's about a guy who goes to Korea to teach English and meets a lot of weird instructors at a sketchy English conversation school. And his new apartment might be haunted. If you've ever taught English overseas, you"ll love ...more | |
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| This book is a hilarious satire akin to American Psycho. Through the eyes of Winifred Notty, "the perfect Victorian governess," we are voyeurs privy to the going-ons in the vile, privileged household of the Pounds family. The narrator is a psychopath ...more | |
“I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.”
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“I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.”
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Storm of the Century
― Storm of the Century
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Rosa
Aug 23, 2010 09:10PM
Hi, John! You know, you can "claim" your author page by searching for yourself on here and clicking "is this you?" Then you can send in your application to become a Goodreads author. You are already on here, I am one of your fans. ;-) It's just a matter of marking your territory.... Welcome!!! This is a great site for networking.
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