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David Rheem Jarrett

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David Rheem Jarrett Biography

David Rheem Jarrett was born and raised in Berkeley, California. He attended Berkeley High School, graduating in 1959. He attended several different colleges and universities, ultimately graduating from the University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry with a D.D.S. degree.
Jarrett was first encouraged to write by his senior-class high school English teacher, and later by family and friends. He writes for himself, as he enjoys creating and telling a good story, and he knows a brain that is kept active through writing will continue to function well into one’s later years. He is not too proud, however, to accept money from book sales should readers enjoy his writing and purchase his books. Neither is David Rheem Jarrett Biography

David Rheem Jarrett was born and raised in Berkeley, California. He attended Berkeley High School, graduating in 1959. He attended several different colleges and universities, ultimately graduating from the University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry with a D.D.S. degree.
Jarrett was first encouraged to write by his senior-class high school English teacher, and later by family and friends. He writes for himself, as he enjoys creating and telling a good story, and he knows a brain that is kept active through writing will continue to function well into one’s later years. He is not too proud, however, to accept money from book sales should readers enjoy his writing and purchase his books. Neither is he shy about interjecting moral, social and political issues into his novels, as he believes readers can learn and think about these issues just as easily and probably more enjoyably through reading a well-researched work of fiction as they can by reading the news articles of today.

He feels that many of today’s novels, including those by many well-known novelists, are not only unrealistic, but are so plot-driven that they ignore the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters in them. This is why he writes believable plots, and why his novels are written in third person omniscient – in order to allow the reader to “get inside” the heads of the characters and experience the range of emotions there. This is also why his average novel takes two or three years to complete!

Jarrett spends as much time outdoors as he can, on the golf course or in the woods. He worked at many different jobs during the ascent of the academic ladder, most of them physically challenging, unskilled labor, and this work and the people he met doing it have proven invaluable to his life and in his writing, as has the interaction he had with his patients during the thirty-five years he practiced dentistry. Now retired from private practice, he volunteers as a part-time dentist in a faith-based free clinic in Sparks, Nevada.

He met his wife, Kathie, after coming off the fire line while fighting a forest fire in Northern California in 1959. They have enjoyed fifty-four years of marriage, and their union has resulted in three grown children and seven grandchildren. They make their home in Reno, Nevada, along with one very spoiled feral cat that “adopted” them over twenty years ago!

He is an unapologetic aficionado of fast cars, golf, fly-fishing, and firearms. The wide open spaces of Northern Nevada provide him with a perfect place to exercise these pursuits.

His web site is http://highdesertlit.com
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The URSUS PERSPECTIVE has had mixed reviews thus far, as I knew it probably would. My debut novel, LAST STRAW, opens with a burst of action and does not let the reader off the action hook until the end. It garnered very positive reviews from the readers of the Psychological Thrillers group here on GR, and on Amazon, where it is for sale.

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Perilous Shore (Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventures #6)

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“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
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“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. "Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

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“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
― George Orwell

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“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing afriend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”

- Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation”
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