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Gene Doucette

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http://www.goodreads.com/GeneDoucette

born

May 18, 1968 in The United States

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website

http://genedoucette.me

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor, Literature & Fiction

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July 2010

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Gene Doucette is a novelist, a screenwriter, a playwright, a humorist, an essayist, and a few other things. He is, in other words, a writer, and thank goodness for that because the other options were alcoholic (still possible) and axe murderer (less likely.)

There is durable evidence of his existence as a writer, although not as much as one might hope. Beating Up Daddy: A Year in the Life of an Amateur Father, a collection of early humor columns in which Gene rightly takes his children to task for existing, was published in 1999.

A few years later Gene published The OTHER Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: A Parody. This was written shortly after discovering that the actual survival handbook was being sold in, of all places, the humor sec...more

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On Immortal Men

Note: Every now and then, in the course of promoting a book, things are written for submission to publications, and these things are meant to be a combination of topical, conversational, and self-promotional. And every now and then these things are not picked up by the targeted media source. This is one such piece.

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I don’t know how old I am. My earliest memory is something along the li...

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Average rating: 4.41 · 99 ratings · 54 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Immortal 4.46 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Hellenic Immortal 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Other Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: A Parody 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beating Up Daddy: A Year in the Life of an Amateur Father by Gene Doucette (Goodreads Author), Linda Carlson 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Vacations and Other Errors in Judgment 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Immortal (2 books)
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Gene Doucette gave to: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) read in March, 2011	My rating:
This reminded me a great deal of Gaiman's Sandman. I liked it tremendously.
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Gene Doucette made a comment in the group Author Talk Book Club — April Blog Tour topic "Great! Look forward to hearing from you! "
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“I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I’m nothing if not trendy.”
― Gene Doucette, Immortal

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