Vincent H. O'Neil
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Murder in Exile (Frank Cole #1)
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Interlands
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Exile Trust
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Contest of Wills: A Frank Cole Mystery
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Denizens (Interlands, #2)
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Crime Capsules: Tales of Death, Desire, and Deception
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The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
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Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon
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As a lifelong fan of Warren Zevon, I couldn't wait to read this--and I wasn't disappointed. The tales of murder, fraud, betrayal, and karma (both good and bad) all have some reference to Zevon's work, and they're all entertaining. I especially enjoyed ...more |
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Walter Lord is one of my favorite historians, and I enjoyed this work immensely. It joins the young United States toward the end of the up-and-down conflict with England known as the War of 1812. Events in that final year of the conflict held the pot ...more |
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I purchased this book after touring the Museum of the Eighth Air Force in Savannah, Georgia. It's a surprisingly quick read for such a large work, because so much of it is drawn from the stories of the actual combatants. It's a sprawling history that ...more |
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“Manipulation gets people to do something they aren't likely to do if given the opportunity to think.
Appeals to emotion are some of the easiest methods of manipulation, because strong emotions can cloud our minds while also getting us to act.”
― The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
Appeals to emotion are some of the easiest methods of manipulation, because strong emotions can cloud our minds while also getting us to act.”
― The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.”
― Final Approach
― Final Approach
“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written.
Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep.
He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.”
― Death Troupe
Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep.
He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.”
― Death Troupe

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