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Favorite authorsMarcus Aurelius, William Blake, Albert Camus, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William Faulkner, Lion Feuchtwanger, Richard P. Feynman, Ian Fleming, Vince Flynn, William Gibson, Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Tony Hillerman, Homer, Aldous Huxley, P. D. James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, John Keegan, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Kurzweil, Pär Lagerkvist, Jack London, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay, John D. MacDonald, Thomas Mann, W. Somerset Maugham, David McCullough, Yukio Mishima, Ogden Nash, Eugene O'Neill, Francis Parkman, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Pynchon, Ayn Rand, Ruth Rendell, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Steinbeck, Junichiro Tanizaki, Brad Thor, Henry David Thoreau, Thucydides, Leo Tolstoy, B. Traven, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, Simon Winchester, Palle Yourgrau (Shared favorites)

About meI gave up on women 20 years ago and I quickly found out that I no longer had the desire to drink or do drugs. So with all this free time on my hands I have turned back to my first loves...reading and gambling. I have done some writing in the past and I may eventually go back to that, although I think of it now as a chore I might just as well set aside for when I get really old and cranky. I'm retired, and live in the northeast. When it snows I usually drive to Las Vegas. I take my time, and talk to folks along the way. I find it's mostly a nice country with mostly nice people. No need to go anywhere else.

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