Ben Schmitz

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Ben Schmitz

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Ben’s favorite books

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

World War Z by Max Brooks

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt

Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt

The Same River Twice by Chris Offutt

1491 by Charles C. Mann

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Longest Silence by Thomas McGuane

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

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Strangers: A Memo...

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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

by Belle Burden

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The Irish Goodbye

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The Irish Goodbye

by Heather Aimee O'Neill (Goodreads Author)

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Ben’s Quotes

“Dave Hughes, in his fine book An Angler’s Astoria, has”
― John Gierach, Trout Bum

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“Charles Waterman, Gerald Almy,”
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“Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America”
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Rachel

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Richard Vogt

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Grace Lamming

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Eric Lunt

Eric Lunt

286 books | 14 friends

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Sara Schmitz

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Justin Grudzien

23 books | 1 friend

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Will

21 books | 5 friends

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Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Science, Science fiction, and Travel

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