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Adrian Colesberry

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A biomedical engineer by training, Adrian spent a decade working in pharmaceutical manufacturing. In the evenings, after work, he did stand-up comedy, proving once more the age-old formula:

corporate drug manufacturing + time (approx 2 hours) = comedy.

After divorcing, Adrian found humbler employment as an extra in film and TV. It was during his Zen-like retreat into extra-land, that Adrian wrote the dirty, funny, dirty "How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry."

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Sade Knew Everything about Women

I was procrastinating on a piece of writing one day last week and I grabbed a volume of the Grove Press Sade off my bookshelf, the one with Philosophy in the Bedroom and Justine, and what struck me upon my limited re-perusal was how many of the modern sticking points about female sexuality where we [...]

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	Best Sex Writing 2012: The State of Today's Sexual Culture by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Susie Bright (Goodreads Author), Joan Price (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.77 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2012 — 7 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
	How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry 4.04 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2009 — 7 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
	Costa Rica: The Last Country the Gods Made by Adrian Colesberry (Goodreads Author), Brass McLean, Kimberly Parsons (Photography) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 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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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

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“...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed...”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

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