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Richard Starks

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Richard Starks is a former journalist, editor and publisher, and is now a full-time writer.

"My latest book (cowritten with Miriam Murcutt) is a novel, In A Town Called Paradox, which is set in 1950s Utah when the Big Five Hollywood studios arrived to film their blockbuster movies. Part of the plot is centered on the making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The opening line sets the scene: I wasn't looking for Marilyn Monroe when I bumped into her...

"My other books include a couple of financial thrillers and the novelization of a horror-movie script by the director David Cronenberg. I've also written for television.

"My non-fiction books include a (mercifully short) economics book, and four narrative non-fiction titles, all co-authored b ...more

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	Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive by Richard Starks (Goodreads Author), Miriam Murcutt (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2004 — 13 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
	A Room with a Pew: Sleeping Our Way Through Spain's Ancient Monasteries by Richard Starks (Goodreads Author), Miriam Murcutt (Goodreads Author) 3.49 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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
	The Brood 2.84 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1979 — 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
	Along the River that Flows Uphill: From the Orinoco to the Amazon by Richard Starks (Goodreads Author), Miriam Murcutt (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 4 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
	Greenland for $1.99 by Richard Starks (Goodreads Author), Miriam Murcutt (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 13 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
	Money Doesn't Talk, It Kills 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	David Cronenberg's The Brood 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1979	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 Broker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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
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	Industry in Decline 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1978 — 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

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Essential reading… …if you want to get a glimpse of how US administrations - over a period of twenty years - managed to embroil the country in a fruitless and ultimately pointless war. Not unlike Vietnam.
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Excellent For anyone who lived through the times of the troubles or wishes to understand them - and hopes they won’t be repeated.
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“More concerning, the decade to 2010 was the warmest that Greenland has seen — at least in the 120 years for which records have been kept. Furthermore, the Arctic summers of 2010, 2011 and 2012 were the warmest since at least the 1400s.”
― Richard Starks, Greenland for $1.99

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“an Arctic desert with no rain and minimal vegetation that was every bit as desolate and bleak as the Tibetan plateau. Along the way we passed what is billed as “the world’s most northerly golf course”, laid out in 1986 by a couple of bored helicopter pilots working for Greenland Air with the help of a night watchman from the Kangerlussuaq Hotel.”
― Richard Starks, Greenland for $1.99

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