John Maberry
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url
http://www.goodreads.com/silvercityjohn
gender
male
place of birth
Minneapolis, The United States
website
genre
Religion & Spirituality, Science Fiction & Fantasy
influences
Vonnegut, Voltaire, Art Buchwald, Lewis Carroll
member since
March 2008
about this author
Born in Minneapolis, he survived a hard childhood, the Vietnam War, drugs and failed marriages. Graduating with top honors from college he went on to earn a JD at Georgetown. He left the law and a government job behind to write full-time. Waiting for Westmoreland, a memoir, hit the shelves in September 2007. "
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Waiting for Westmoreland by John Maberry (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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Waiting for Westmoreland (Biographies & Memoirs)
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Those seeking happiness amidst the suffering or disillusionment of day to day life will find hope in reading Waiting for Westmoreland. Those seeking redemption for past mistakes, will also find a means to achieve it. The book is the true story of a 20th century Candide-an innocent growing up in America in the fifties.
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Shadow Fires (Paperback) by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols bookshelves: currently-reading |
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John Maberry
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Will: The Autobiography Of G. Gordon Liddy (Hardcover) by G. Gordon Liddy |
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John Maberry
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Shadow Fires (Paperback) by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols |
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John Maberry
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The Third Lynx (Mass Market Paperback) by Timothy Zahn |
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recommended for: sci-fi buffs
read in August, 2008 
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"I might give it a 3.5 if that were available. Mass market is right segment of its catalog that the publisher puts this in. It is a decent sci-fi detective/action story that will keep you entertained without taxing your brain. Which means it will like...more
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John Maberry
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Gravity's Rainbow (Paperback) by Thomas Pynchon |
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recommended for: literary masochists and pedants only
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"To be great is to be misunderstood; to be misunderstood is to be thought great by critics. To ordinary mortals, even those capable of graduating with highest honors from college, this book is a paradigm of turgid prose. I tried and failed 3-4 times t...more
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Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, Second Edit (Paperback) by Judith Barrington |
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recommended for: anyone intending to or writing a memoir
read in January, 2004
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"An excellent book answering FAQs that you didn't know you had or if you did, you didn't know how to ask them. As I was crafting my own memoir, this book helped guide me on the path.
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John Maberry
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Living an Uncommon Life: Essential Lessons from 21 Extraordinary People (Hardcover) by John St. Augustine |
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recommended for: anyone
read in June, 2008
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"Unlike most other self-help/inspirational books, this is a compendium of anecdotal commentaries about and from guests on the author's radio show or otherwise an influence on him. Along the way, John St. Augustine (now a motivational speaker and a pro...more
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John Maberry
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Myth Shattering (Paperback) by Timothy Harada |
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John Maberry
wrote Waiting for Westmoreland: Prologue (continuation).
"I had first met Juanita at a Buddhist meeting in the spring of 1977. Four years of college and three"
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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)
— 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
"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
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