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John Maberry

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Minneapolis, The United States
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Vonnegut, Voltaire, Art Buchwald, Lewis Carroll

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March 2008

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That's me in the photo, relaxing with my friend Larry. We (the wife and I; not Larry) have relocated from our home in Northern Virginia-with its traffic, noise, heat and humidity-to the scenic hills of New Mexico. I survived a hard childhood, war, drugs and two failed marriages. Graduating with top honors from college, I went on to earn a JD at Georgetown. I quickly became a lapsed lawyer and instead went to work for local government, writing consumer education materials and government reports. In the meantime, overcoming a death threat from my bride's father, I finally found a happy marriage the third time around. After retiring from that government job, I began working on that childhood dream of writing--finally getting out Waiting for We ...more

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John Maberry I alternate projects so if I get stuck on one, it's likely I will be able to move forward on the other(s).…moreI alternate projects so if I get stuck on one, it's likely I will be able to move forward on the other(s).(less)
John Maberry The best thing about being a writer is having a means to express yourself to people you may never meet in person, offering them wisdom or entertainmen…moreThe best thing about being a writer is having a means to express yourself to people you may never meet in person, offering them wisdom or entertainment--depending on whether I am writing non-fiction or fiction. Of course I hope non-fiction can be entertaining as well and that I can slip in a little of what I see as wisdom.(less)
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Waiting for Westmoreland

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Lightning Strikes Again

Traveling in time via excerpts from Waiting for WestmorelandVietnam, 1968/Washington, DC, 1979-1982.

Any other night, I might be outside catching the breeze, smoking a joint. Or taking a nap on the balcony that ran round the ATC. Not this night. Sixty feet off the ground, the air traffic control tower at Long Thanh North shook. Rain ran in sheets down plexiglass windows. No sorties tonight. No VC

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The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
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An unusual time-travel cum historical fiction book populated with annoying characters among both the long ago ones and the latter day folks. A multi award-winning book that slowly comes to a climax in the last quarter of the text.

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As the blurb in Goodreads says, "a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate." The greater ...more
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The Missing Piece by John Lescroart
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Got in late to Lescroart with #19 in the Dismas Hardy series. Simon & Schuster has eBook sales. May have to go back and check some earlier in the group.
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An Honorable Man by Paul Vidich
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A period piece, from 1948 into 1953. It's when Communism fever was hot and spies were a big deal in the Cold War. Joseph McCarthy was badgering a variety of government employees, among other targets. The book had a minor figure in the story, modeled ...more
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The Voyage by Philip Caputo
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I thought highly of the three other books by Caputo that I read. Not so much this one. It had it's moments, especially the last 20-25% of it that resolved why Cyrus Braithwaite sent his three sons on a three-month trip to wherever they chose. A colle ...more
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“Not understanding something, especially if you have an active imagination, always makes something feel worse than it is.”
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“A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.”
Daisaku Ikeda, The Human Revolution

“Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."

"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!”
Lewis Carroll

“Post-truth is pre-fascism.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more free speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“10 Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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