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Joseph Raffetto

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Born

in Santa Maria, The United States

July 03

Website

http://noovella.com

Twitter

noovella

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences

George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Walter Tevis, Patricia Highsmith, Virginia ...more

Member Since

July 2008

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/noovella

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Joseph Raffetto earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from San Diego State University. He can be found online @noovella on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads.

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Average rating: 4.5 · 34 ratings · 13 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Inside Orwell and Other Stories 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 9 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
	Mysteries of Game Theory and Other Oddities 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	The Girl from Summer and Other Stories 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Kristin B. and Other Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 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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Joseph Raffetto is currently reading

The Director

by David Ignatius

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Joseph’s Quotes

“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.”
― George Orwell, George Orwell Diaries

tags: diaries, george-orwell

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“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: writing

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“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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