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Kenneth Eckert

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Born

Edmonton, Canada

Website

http://keneckert.com/mrbooks

Genre

Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Science Fiction

Influences

Stephen Leacock, Zadie Smith, Kingsley Amis

Member Since

July 2017

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Learning to Crawl (2020) and Shorter of Breath (2017) are novels by Kenneth (Ken) Eckert, who is a native of Edmonton, Canada living in Korea. As an English professor most of his writing is on medieval and (post)modern literature, with a recently published book, Middle English Romances in Translation (Sidestone), and Writing Academic Papers in English: For Korean Writers. He is an alumnus of Memorial University in Newfoundland and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he studied Chaucer alongside creative writing students such as Alissa Nutting (Tampa) and Juan Martinez (Best Worst American).

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	Middle English Romances in Translation: Amis and Amiloun - Athelston - Floris and Blancheflor - Havelok the Dane - King Horn - Sir Degare really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shorter of Breath: 8-Tracks. Aliens. Korea. Edmonton. And a chance to leave lame-o millennial culture for the '70s! 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning to Crawl it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Academic Papers in English: For Korean Writers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Effective predryer operations 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kenneth Eckert rated a book really liked it Atonement by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My first experience with McEwan was his "Amsterdam," and I found it somehow both too smugly cynical and dark, and postmodern gimmicky. Now I must be one of the last people to read "Atonement." I will perhaps change my mind on McEwan from it. In 1935, ...more
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Kenneth Eckert rated a book really liked it Flush by Virginia Woolf	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a Woolf novella for people who think they don't like Woolf. Woolf can be wordy--like Henry James, in many of her works she tends to describe every blade of grass, and then how each person subjectively perceives each blade of grass; as a high ...more
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Kenneth Eckert rated a book really liked it Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Ishiguro has always insisted on not being pigeonholed as a Japanese author, taking his influences from British and Russian authors. Those who want fight scenes or car chases should look elsewhere, as his narratives tend to be psychological ones takin ...more
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