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Thomas Wictor

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Thomas Wictor was born in Caripito, Venezuela, and has lived in Texas, the Netherlands, Norway, Great Britain, Oregon, Japan, and California. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Lewis and Clark College and has worked as a stevedore, library archivist, conversational English teacher, editor of the world’s first online newspaper, voice-over actor, delivery driver, process server, field representative for a document-retrieval service, scale-model builder, and music journalist.

He is the author of seven books and is the planet’s only expert on World War I flamethrowers, an accomplishment he attained completely by default, since nobody else is interested in them. A former Contributing Editor at Bass Player, he was once a semi-profession ...more

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	In Cold Sweat: Interviews with Really Scary Musicians 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2004 — 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
	Ghosts and Ballyhoo: Memoirs of a Failed L.A. Music Journalist 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	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
	Hallucinabulia: The Dream Diary of an Unintended Solitarian 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	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
	Chasing the Last Whale by Thomas Wictor (Goodreads Author), Tim Wictor (Illustrations) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Hallucinabulia: the Dream Diary of an Unintended Solitarian (The Ghost Trilogy Book 3) by Thomas Wictor (Goodreads Author), Tim Wictor (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	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
	German Assault Troops of World War I: Organization Tactics Weapons Equipment Orders of Battle Uniforms 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	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
	Flamethrower Troops of World War I: The Central and Allied Powers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	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
	German Flamethrower Pioneers of World War I 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	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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Today the blog hit 54,000 views per post. It’s no longer possible for me to keep pumping money into this thing. This a truly metastatic phenomenon. However, being forced to stop is a blessing in disguise. I need to move on to other things.

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Hallucinabulia: the Dream Diary of an Unintended Solitarian (Health, Mind & Body)

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Description: Volume Three of the Ghosts Trilogy, Hallucinabulia is a nonfiction work that documents the author's state of mind as his life utterly fell apart.

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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

by David J. Skal

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Thomas Wictor said: " Very entertaining, readable, and informative. If you want to know where so many of our popular horror memes originated, this book has most of the answers. "

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Thomas Wictor wrote a new blog post Metastatic blog has become terminal. Behold my final post Today the blog hit 54,000 views per post. It’s no longer possible for me to keep pumping money into this thing. This a truly metastatic phenomenon.... Read more of this blog post »
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Thomas Wictor made a comment on Mari’s review of In Cold Blood " Easily one of the greatest books ever written, period. Capote deserved every atom of praise he got for it. This one will stay with you. I still remembe ...more "
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Thomas Wictor rated a book it was amazing The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal	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
Very entertaining, readable, and informative. If you want to know where so many of our popular horror memes originated, this book has most of the answers.
May 01, 2014 12:34PM · like · see review
Thomas Wictor made a comment in the group Book Buying Addicts Anonymous — Do you ever buy books to feel better? topic " Books and DVDs both. Nothing's finer than an Amazon gift card. Seeing that cardboard Amazon box on my front porch is like Christmas. "
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Thomas Wictor made a comment on Mari’s status in A Prayer for Owen Meany " Irving was a major influence in my writing. I use humor whenever possible to lighten the load. "
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Thomas Wictor rated a book it was amazing Shooting Wars: My Life As A War Cameraman, From Cuba To Iraq by Erik Durschmied	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
Great. Puts you right at the front line and explains why war photographers do what they do. Very straight-forward language, but each episode reads like a novel. The strangeness of being allowed to arrive, film death, and leave unmolested gives it all ...more
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Thomas Wictor rated a book it was amazing Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel	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
Extremely well-written book. Hodel doesn't create an airtight case that his father murdered Elizabeth Short, but he still lets us see a side of upper-crust Los Angeles that's tottering with moral rot and depravity. Without intending to, Hodel makes h ...more
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Thomas Wictor rated a book it was amazing Dispatches by Michael Herr	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
The book about the Vietnam War. Surreal, grisly, and so artistic. "I'm scaled, man. I'm smooth now." Who could forget that line? Or calling the enemy dead "believers." It reads like a doctor's notes on the ravings of a mental patient, but there's jus ...more
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And with that the singer was content.”
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