Tim Sandlin

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Tim Sandlin wrote five novels about his problems and then ran out of problems so he wrote movies because, he says, you don't have to have problems to write movies. After a few years of that he developed all new problems so he went back to novels.

Sandlin spent his summer rite-of-passage years in Wyoming. He worked over 40 entry-level jobs including driving an ice cream truck, skinning elk, cooking in a Chinese restaurant, trail inventory for the Forest Service, gardener for the Rockefellers, pizza parlor manager, belt buckle buffer, and countless dishwashing jobs. Throughout this period he lived most of the year on public lands, first in a tent and later in a Cheyenne tipi. The more mind-numbing jobs have helped him to hone my creative skil...more

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Skipped Parts Free followed by new novel

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Skipped Parts Free followed by new novel

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Books by Tim Sandlin

Average rating: 3.80 · 3,177 ratings · 358 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Skipped Parts (GroVont Trilogy, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 968 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Sorrow Floats (GroVont Trilogy, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Social Blunders (GroVont Trilogy, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Sex and Sunsets 3.85 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Western Swing 3.81 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Honey Don't 3.33 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty 3.48 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Rowdy in Paris 3.71 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Lydia 3.91 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Skipped Parts 3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings	My rating:

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Series by Tim Sandlin

GroVont Triology (3 books)
by Tim Sandlin

3.89 avg rating — 1,931 ratings

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“The worst things in life are the best things gone bad - Tim Sandlin”
― Tim Sandlin

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“Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.”
― Tim Sandlin, Skipped Parts

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“RC blinked a couple more times and admired the freckles on either side of [Honey's] nose. He would have enjoyed connecting them dot-to-dot with a felt-tip pen. In his fantasy, he would discover the meaning of life spread across her cheekbones.”
― Tim Sandlin, Honey Don't

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