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Jon Adams

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born

Vallejo, Calif, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.slackwaterpress.com

genre

Literature & Fiction

influences

Twain, Hemingway, Kafka

member since

February 2008

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I grew up in Santa Clara Valley, a place that no longer exists under that name. I attended school in Cupertino when there were still some prunes, cherries, and apricots, but no apples then. In my junior year of high school, I dropped out. For my parents took us (me, my two brothers and my sister) on a world cruise. We left San Francisco on the 58-foot schooner Fairweather. We sailed west across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, then up the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. From there we sailed across the Atlantic and Caribbean, passed through the Panama Canal, and then, after four years, returned to San Francisco. This cruise is the basis for the novel, "The Cruise of the Jest."

The basic story in "The Cruise of the Jest" had been on my mind for a...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 8 ratings · 2 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Dark Horse Presents, Volume 2 by Jon Adams (Goodreads Author), Gerard Way, Steve Niles 3.58 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Truth Serum: The Lonely Parade 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Cruise of the Jest 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	The Successful Christian in a Failing World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	False Witnesses 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Roots of American Environmentalism by Jon Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Philipp Balcke (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine: An International Reader by Jon Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gavin Andrews (Editor), Joanne Barnes (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Interference Patterns: Literary Study, Scientific Knowledge, and Disciplinary Autonomy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Narrative Explanation: A Pragmatic Theory Of Discourse 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context by Philip Tovey (Editor), Gary Easthope (Editor), Jon Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:

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Jon Adams gave to: Little Children by Tom Perrotta read in February, 2008	My rating:
Tom Perrotta's Little Children is a satire of mostly young suburbanites. The characters' main problem seems to be their inability of fulfill their expectations in life. And that's a problem than it at first seems, because their very expectations sugg...more
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