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Peter Dann has been a screenwriter, teacher, playwright, technical writer and software support guy. While Peter's technical manuals have been a little on the sober side, his more creative writing has typically had a wistful, humorous bent. "1961" is Peter's first novel.

Peter has read numerous works in the public domain as free audiobooks for Librivox. He has had a particular interest in reading aloud the works of Joseph Conrad.

Peter is not the same author as Dr Peter Dann, the marine biologist/wildlife ecologist. ...more

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	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.43 avg rating — 567,770 ratings — published 1899 — 8297 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
	Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.61 avg rating — 33,418 ratings — published 1900 — 2329 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
	Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.81 avg rating — 18,174 ratings — published 1904 — 1807 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
	In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield, Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.63 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — published 1935 — 29 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
	Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad, Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.68 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 1898 — 486 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
	The Rescue by Joseph Conrad, Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.68 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1920 — 692 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
	The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad, Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.40 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1919 — 8 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
	1961 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	The Penguins: Ecology and Management by Pauline Reilly (Editor), Ian Norman (Editor), Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Gillies and Company by Patrick Cook, Peter Dann (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Peter Dann made a comment on Lisa’s review of Let the Boys Play " Glad you hear you gave it a go. Can’t ask more than that. "
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Peter Dann rated a book really liked it In the Suavity of the Rock by Greg Gerke (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
What a sad story this is: a first person narrator with literary aspirations who finds himself endlessly “held back” by he knows not what engages in relentless self-excoriation and reaches for increasingly far-fetched poetic expressions to convey his ...more
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Peter Dann rated a book it was amazing Let the Boys Play by Nicholas John Turner	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
The reviewers who have been waxing lyrical about this novel here appear to me a very kind and generous lot, and most adventurous spirits, too, able to find pleasure in literary fare of a decidedly exotic nature. They stumble out of the jungle through ...more
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Peter Dann made a comment on Jack Lio’s review of Let the Boys Play " If you do re-read it, I'll be interested to know whether you start making some interesting discoveries about what it's actually REALLY about. I'm now ...more "
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Peter Dann made a comment on Valerie’s review of Let the Boys Play " I can relate to a lot of what you've said here. The fugue-like passage starting on p. 274 is extraordinary, but what you call the "lattice" of the boo ...more "
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Peter Dann rated a book it was amazing Let the Boys Play by Nicholas John Turner	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
The reviewers who have been waxing lyrical about this novel here appear to me a very kind and generous lot, and most adventurous spirits, too, able to find pleasure in literary fare of a decidedly exotic nature. They stumble out of the jungle through ...more
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Peter Dann rated a book it was amazing Shadows of Rome: A Memoir by David Downie (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
While a sense of great sadness pervades David Downie's memoir Shadows of Rome, Downie is far too skilled a narrator to overwhelm his reader with a sense of bleakness page by page, and I, for one, found myself looking forward to each new chapter as I ...more
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Peter Dann rated a book it was amazing Four of Clubs: Murder in the High Sierra by David Downie (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
My only previous encounter with David Downie's fiction has been with his "Red Riviera", where he shows he can plot a conventional mystery story very well indeed. With "Four of Clubs", my sense is that Downie has knowingly been prepared to risk bendin ...more
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Peter Dann rated a book it was amazing Red Riviera: A Daria Vinci Investigation by David Downie (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
I enjoyed this tale of a dramatic and unusual crime (well, of multiple crimes, in fact) set in contemporary Italy, and of the processes a much put-upon female detective takes in order to unravel the truth. The whole story feels very well grounded in ...more
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