Tom - Resident Artistic Genius

Bio 

I’m most attracted to well crafted, courageous prose; the subject matter is less important.

Reading History (lots of gaps):

Ages 1-13: Winnie the Pooh, The Boy Who Got Mailed, The Little Engine That Could, the Hardy Boys series.

Ages 13-18: Ian Fleming (James Bond), Hermann Hesse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ayn Rand, Richard Brautigan

Ages 18-present: Paul Theroux, Bernard Malamud, John Steinbeck, James Herriott, Ken Kesey

The House of the Seven Gables (Mass Market Paperback)

By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brenda Wineapple (Afterword by)

$5.95

ISBN-13: 9780451527912
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Published: Signet Classics, 05/01/2001

How a wicked remeditated wicked act can manifest through generations; 17th-19th century New England. Insightful, beautifully rendered prose, by an American master. Moby Dick is dedicated to him.

 

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Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Paperback)

By Jhumpa Lahiri

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780307278258
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Published: Vintage, 04/01/2009

Statistic: 73 languages are spoken within Los Angeles County. This seems like a fair example of a “diverse dynamic". Our author is intrigued with this trend; specifically involving folks from India. She has presented us with 8 stories and as the reader settles into the prose and harvests an idea or two one sees why she won the Pulitzer.

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Kidnapped (TV tie-in) (Paperback)

By Robert Louis Stevenson, Donald McFarlan, Donald McFarlan (Notes by)

$8.00

ISBN-13: 9780143039402
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Published: Penguin Classics, 09/01/2005

Settle into your reading and smell sea salt; feel the cold grip of a dark scottish castle; experience life in the highlands during the Jacobite Rebellion.

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Pillars of Hercules (Paperback)

By Paul Theroux

$17.00

ISBN-13: 9780449910856
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Published: Ballantine Books, 10/01/1996

Well known for his insightful and educational accounts of long journeys, the author once again takes off, this time from Gibraltar to Morocco, following the Mediterranean coast.  He pulls no punches, and therefore entertains.

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