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Frank Roberts

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Born
in Fayetteville, North Carolina, The United States
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Nonfiction, Travel, Humor

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B. Kliban, Reinaldo Arenas, Henry Miller, Bill Hicks, Henry Rollins ...more

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50 Shades of Henry

“…Henceforward everything moves on shifting levels – our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life. A parallelogram in which we drop from one platform of our scaffold to another. Henceforward we walk split into myriad fragments, like an insect with a hundred feet, a centipede with soft-stirring feet that drinks in the atmosphere; we walk with sensitive filaments that drink avidly of past Read more of this blog post »
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Published on July 13, 2012 05:29 • Tags: chester-himes, dr-seuss, faulkner, fiction, henry-miller, jackass-on-a-camel, profanity, reinaldo-arenas, writing

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Average rating: 4.0 · 8 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work
Jackass on a Camel: Fossils...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Frank Roberts made a comment on Lorenzo Savona’s review of The Feast of the Goat
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
" I wouldn't expect much from this Nobel winner - Llosa hews tight to actual history so there is no "new" tale about Trujillo. He does add some depth to ...more "
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The Haunted Air (Repairman Jack, #6)
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Alien by Alan Dean Foster
Alien
by Alan Dean Foster
recommended for: 10 year old astrobiologists, Mormons
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Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review...)

I was 11 years old when Alien came out. The buzz was huge, even among 6th graders, and everybody else on the planet ...more
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“¿Por qué estamos aquí nosotros, y no los neandertales? [...] fuimos afortunados por haber estado en los lugares adecuados en los momentos oportunos.”
― Clive Finlayson, The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
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This group is for anyone interested in Utopian and Dystopian Literature to discuss anything from Thomas More's Utopia to present day fiction. Everyone ...more

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