John Elder Robison
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Athens, Georgia, The United States
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Biographies & Memoirs, Health, Mind & Body, Parenting & Families
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May 2008
about this author
I was born in rural Georgia in 1957. I was kind of a misfit growing up. In fact, the bigger I got, the more misfit I became. At age 8, I got a little brother, and he was a misfit too. I dropped out of school in 10th grade, and never looked back. My brother dropped out a few years later, following in my footsteps.
I've had a number of careers . . . I designed sound systems for discos. I designed effects for KISS. I designed sound systems for more bands than I could count. Then, I took up electronic game design. I worked on fire alarms and power supplies. I even worked with lasers. Finally, 20 years ago, I gave up technology to start an automobile repair business.
That was where I was when my brother told some...more
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.67 — 3,996 ratings — published 2007 13 editions |
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Standing on the Brink (Biographies & Memoirs)
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My thoughts as I join the TMS research program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a part of Harvard Medical School
A story about memory in memoir, my brother, and me (Biographies & Memoirs)
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John Elder Robison on my brother's book, A Wolf at the Table
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Outliers (Hardcover) by Malcolm Gladwell bookshelves: currently-reading |
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gave You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas (Hardcover) by Augusten Burroughs |
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"You might say I'm biased because I appear in many of my brother's stories, but I will say this . . . the last two stories are by far the best and most meaningful.
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gave Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life (Paperback) by Neil Strauss |
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read in October, 2009
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"Follow Neil as he moves from skeptical reporter to survivalist to defender of his community. That sounds sarcastic but it's not . . . it's really a commendable journey and something many could benefit from, me included
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gave Riding Toward Everywhere (Cloth) by William T. Vollmann |
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gave Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy (Blue Jacket Bks) by John T. Kuehn |
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gave The Road to Woodstock (Hardcover) by Michael Lang |
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read in October, 2009
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"I really enjoyed this book because it took me back to people and places from when I began in the music business, a few years after Woodstock.
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gave Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea (Paperback) by Daniel V. Gallery |
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gave Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash (Paperback) by Elizabeth Royte |
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gave Race to Dakar (Hardcover) by Charley Boorman |
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read in October, 2009
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"The Long Way Round is Charley's best known book but I really liked this tale of the 2006 Dakar Rally. I also share the dream of doing the Dakar, but Charley actually went and did it, and he made it much of the way his first time through.
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gave Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in U.S. Coast Guard History (Paperback) by Robert Frump |
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gave Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Hardcover) by Bill McKibben |
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