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Truman Capoeti Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Convinced @AODespair to unblock me. Technical Advisor: BBC LUTHER, HBO THE DEUCE, CBS ELEMENTARY, BLUE BLOODS + Tom Clancy's “WITHOUT REMORSE”

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Book Cover for: Gun Machine, Warren Ellis

Gun Machine

Warren Ellis
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From 2013. “Gun Machine” Warren Ellis. First sentence: “ On playing back the 911 recording, it seemed that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun.” https://t.co/dh8zfSx9eS

Paperback, 2014

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Master of Ballantrae: Large Print, Robert Louis Stevenson

Master of Ballantrae: Large Print

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Half of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original manuscripts are currently missing. The manuscripts are believed to have been sold off by the Scots writer’s descendants. Among the missing works are the original copies of The Master of Ballantrae and Treasure Island. https://t.co/oatWZHCZn9

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Book Cover for: Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It, Spike Lee

Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It

Spike Lee
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DID YOU KNOW? In the Spike Lee directed “Inside Man” pizza was delivered to the hostages from Sal‘s Pizzeria ( Do The Right Thing). @GoodfellowTad (I spoke to Kim Director on “The Deuce” set. She said “Inside Man 2” was very close to being made). https://t.co/AZFNI6vptG

Paperback, 2006

$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Master of Ballantrae: (Annotated Edition), Robert Louis Stevenson

The Master of Ballantrae: (Annotated Edition)

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Half of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original manuscripts are currently missing. The manuscripts are believed to have been sold off by the Scots writer’s descendants. Among the missing works are the original copies of The Master of Ballantrae and Treasure Island. https://t.co/oatWZHCZn9

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Book Cover for: Luther: The Calling, Neil Cross

Luther: The Calling

Neil Cross
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@StephenKing On a lighter, more interesting note, Neil Cross writer/creator of BBC TV’s “Luther” reads your book, “Stephen King / On Writing” once a year-every year. https://t.co/EgeuLISGfM

Paperback, 2013

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Half of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original manuscripts are currently missing. The manuscripts are believed to have been sold off by the Scots writer’s descendants. Among the missing works are the original copies of The Master of Ballantrae and Treasure Island. https://t.co/oatWZHCZn9

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Book Cover for: On the High Wire, Philippe Petit

On the High Wire

Philippe Petit
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@_subterraneans_ @MENewell3 @AoDespair @stevetimko Me, it’s heights. If I so much as READ Philippe Petit’saccount on the high wire my palms start sweating. Those high rise, glass floor overhangs; sick bastards.

Paperback, 2019

$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway
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“You are all a lost generation.” -Gertrude Stein . Sound familiar (?) and that was a hundred years ago. Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularised by Ernest Hemingway who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises”

Paperback, 2022

$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Meditations: With Selected Correspondence, Marcus Aurelius

Meditations: With Selected Correspondence

Marcus Aurelius
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@dianermacedo Maybe he's reading Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations": “If it is not right, do not do it...if it is not true, do not say it.”

Paperback, 2011

$9.94Member price:$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pressure Is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King

Pressure Is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes

Billie Jean King
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@jjcoop36 Nor should Aaron Judge swat his gum off his bat at the ump, which he did. Lucky they let him slide. “Pressure is a privilege.”-Billie Jean King

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