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Gordon Grice
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Guymon, OK, The United States
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Joan Didion, Richard Selzer, Loren Eiseley, Ambrose Bierce
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Survivors of the USS IndianapolisJaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
This movie dips into history for two important shark incidents. One is the New Jersey attacks of 1916. Five people were killed in a few days that summer, at least three of them by the same shark. Commentators at the time theorized that the shark was a “rogue,” because in less enlightened times, all animals that attacked humans were... read more »
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The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
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Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals
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2010
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The Book of Deadly Animals
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2012
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The Art of Architectural Illustration
by Gordon Grice (Goodreads Author), Resourceworld Staff 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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1997
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The Art of Architectural Illustration
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Architecture in Perspective 20
by Richard Chenoweth, Gordon Grice (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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2005
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Shark Attacks: Inside the Mind of the Ocean's Most Terrifying Predator
by National Geographic, Gordon Grice (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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2012
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Gordon Grice
wrote a new blog post: Animal Attack Movies: Jaws
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Gordon Grice
made a comment on Florida: Black Bear Bites Woman in Backside:
"Me, too, Sherry. In some nations, wildlife is accorded protection even when human lives are at risk. In the US, a dangerous animal is a dead animal.
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Gordon Grice
made a comment on Armies of the Night: Satan's Fetus Stalks the Suburbs, Part 2:
"Heh. Remember when we wanted to start a band called The Weird Sisters?
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Gordon Grice
made a comment on Death Stories: Breath, Part 4:
"Thank you, Simone!
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Gordon Grice
made a comment on Otter Attack Video:
"Sadly, that's exactly what will happen. A wild animal that bites a human for any reason will normally be killed and tested for rabies.
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A Beastly Menagerie: Sir Pilkington-Smythe's Marvelous Collection of Strange and Unusual Creatures
by Danny Beck aka Sir Pilkington-Smythe (Goodreads Author)
read in October, 2010
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| This volume surveys such creatures as the microscopic water bear, which can withstand 1000 times as much radiation as a human; the male hooded seal, which doubles the size of its head by inflating the lining of its nostril; and the Jesus Christ lizar...more | |
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Ornaments in Jade
by Arthur Machen
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Fans of Wilde or Stevenson; lovers of style; those who like classic ghost stories
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Ornaments in Jade This volume has ten short prose pieces, midway between story and poem. For the most part, they aren’t successful; they feel like insufficiently developed stories, and Machen did better with the ideas in other (longer) pieces. All of...more |
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