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Timothy Miller

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Born

in The United States

Website

https://timotheemiller.blogspot.com/

Genre

Mystery, Historical Fiction, Thriller

Influences

Charles Dickens, Richard Brautigan, Italo Calvino

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Timothy Miller is a native of Louisiana, a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans. He has three Sherlock Holmes novels under his belt, all published by Seventh Street Books. His screenplays have placed in several contests, including five times as a semifinalist in the Academy’s prestigious Nicholl Fellowship. He tended bar for twenty-five years everywhere from Bourbon St. in New Orleans to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. When not mourning over his beloved New Orleans Saints he is mourning over his beloved Chicago Cubs. His favorite superhero is Underdog.
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Average rating: 3.72 · 261 ratings · 91 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle 3.74 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2021 — 6 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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“You either fight or surf!” is, of course, the famous choice posed by Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. In the madness of battle, Kilgore gives his soldiers a blank choice between two missions—take it to the waves or take it to the enemy.

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Katabasis

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Timothy Miller and 1 other person liked Jonelle Patrick's review of The Prank: "If you love a thrilling read with characters whose innocence is increasingly in doubt, this new book from James Ziskin is a must-read. He brings all his award-winning mystery skills to this 1960s tale, and even though it's set in small-town America, " Read more of this review »
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The Prank sneaks up on you. It’s a deceptively simple little tale that delivers shock after shock, that forces the reader to come to grips with the banality of evil on a very personal, down-to-earth level. Jimmy Steuben is a hard-luck, small-town ki ...more
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“So does the eager earth send up shoots through the burial mound and cover it in green. The bones of men are buried beneath every house in every street and along every country ride. The coffins are stacked one atop another all the way down to the center of the earth. Yet mourning is not the natural mould of man. The heart is buoyant as a channel marker.”
― Timothy Miller

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Which CRIME, MYSTERY, OR THRILLER would you like to read in November?

The Body in Question by Jill Ciment

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The Ghost Writer by Robert Harris

30 votes, 32.6%

The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle by Timothy Miller

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Timothy’s Quotes

“This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me," whispered the Rat, as if in a trance.
"Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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“If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Soon, leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve vill eat hot dogs and trink free beer beneath the villow trees! Like hogs, yes! Like beautiful leedle hogs!”
― Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh

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“The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.
They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied, "Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar."
And they said then, "But play, you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,
A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

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