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Ralph’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ralph’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ralph Ellis
Goodreads Author
Born
Waynesville, NC, The United States
Website
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Influences
Jim Harrison (Brown Dog), William Cooper (Scenes from Provincial Life)
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Member Since
July 2024
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The Accident Report: A Ronald Truluck Novel
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| This is a book about stoicism. William Stoner is an introverted depressive who carries on through the hardship and deprivation that make up almost every aspect of his life. As a farm boy he goes to the University of Missouri, stays there for the rest ...more | |
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| I’m a Spenser fan. I love the momentum of his novels and how something happens in each chapter. “The Judas Goat” is set in several European cities and Montreal as Spenser is hired to kill off a terrorist group that set a bomb that killed a millionair ...more | |
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| This is a great crime novel. Every page, sometimes every paragraph, contains a pearl. There are four main characters in this run through the gutter, Miami style. Freddy Frenger Jr., “a blithe psychopath” and a career criminal who just got out of a Ca ...more | |
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| This is a great crime novel. Every page, sometimes every paragraph, contains a pearl. There are four main characters in this run through the gutter, Miami style. Freddy Frenger Jr., “a blithe psychopath” and a career criminal who just got out of a Ca ...more | |
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I’m not a big fan of Elmore Leonard. I’ve read several of his books and nothing much surprises me. You have a hero whose been around the block a few times, maybe served a little time, and he comes in conflict with a big, one-dimensional bad guy. He e ...more |
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| "The Shark’s Protégé" examines the interlocking forces of corruption, friendship, and family in a small town. Moogie, the lender of last resort in Harrington, Georgia, hires Bud Boyer, a tough but aimless high school grad, to collect from borrowers a ...more | |
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| This memoir is VERY personal. Tom Junod goes deep into his domineering, charismatic father's life and discovers things you don't normally reveal. Lou Junod had a lot in common with Don Draper of Mad Men. Highly sexed. Ambitious. Drinks a lot. Has a c ...more | |
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| This is a Great Big American Novel, 848 pages. It starts at the famous 1951 baseball game between the Dodgers and the Giants when Bobby Thompson hit a home run that became known as “The Shot Heard Round the World.” What happened to that baseball is a ...more | |