David Wondrich
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gender
male
place of birth
Pittsburgh, The United States
genre
Humor, Entertainment, Cooking, Food & Wine
influences
Captain Morris, Jerry Thomas, Uncle Dave Macon, P. G. Wodehouse
member since
February 2008
about this author
Born on the banks of the Monongahela. Raised in major urban centers. Ex-bass player, ex-English professor, ex-ragtime writer. Mixographer. Brooklynite. Likes port and Stilton and Artemus Ward.
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10/31
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Cliffhanger (Hardcover) by T.J. Middleton bookshelves: currently-reading |
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04/28
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The Victoria Vanishes (Hardcover) by Christopher Fowler |
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| July 25 | ||
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To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (Paperback) by Alistair Horne |
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read in July, 2009
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"In its larger scope, this book reminds me of nothing so much as the movie Alien. There's the French army, girding itself to fight a normal, terrestrial enemy, and suddenly half a dozen panzer divisions burst out of its own chest. Very scary.
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| April 23 | ||
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Amiable Renegade (Hardcover) by Peter Drake |
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read in April, 2009
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"Holy shit! Whores, duels, last-minute escapes from the gallows, battles, swindles, amours, intrigues--Captain Drake's life, as detailed here in his memoirs, was an eighteenth-century picaresque novel come to life.
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Horace Epodes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by David Mankin |
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read in April, 2009
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"Although I find Horace's epodes, taken as a whole, to be a rather uneven affair, there are still a few poems in here that rise to greatness. Mankin is a fine commentator, meticulous and helpful without smothering the text.
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| April 02 | ||
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All the Tea in China (Paperback) by Kyril Bonfiglioli |
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"Flashman A ripping yarn, anyway. " |
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| May 12, 2008 | ||
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Fun and Fancy in Old New York: Reminiscences of a Man About Town (Borgo Literary Guides,) by Tom, Picton |
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Tales Of The Ex-Tanks: A Book Of Hard-Luck Stories (Paperback) by Clarence Louis Cullen |
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Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling And Spirits; 500 BC - AD 2000 (Hardcover) by C. Anne Wilson |
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"Uneven and at time highly speculative to the edge of crackpottery, but nonetheless with much useful information and some good insights.
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"I have seen purer liquors, better seagars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans here, than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America."
— David Wondrich (Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Yorkshire Punch, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar)
— David Wondrich (Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Yorkshire Punch, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar)
