Member: detlef

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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Václav Havel, Robert A. Heinlein, Chalmers Johnson, Haruki Murakami, Joel Turnipseed, Alfredo Vea, Evelyn Waugh, Craig Werner (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesMemorial Library at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

About meI have previously amused myself as a United States Marine, pastry chef, kitchen manager, and press operator in a shampoo bottle labeling factory. I graduated from Le Cordon Bleu, studied cuisine abroad throughout France, and performed an internship with a private chef before making the decision to enlist in August 2002. My enlistment in the Marines took me (sometimes briefly) to many different places: Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, and little towns all over Southern California. I am a dedicated Volvo enthusiast and have a crippling office supply fetish.

About my libraryAs I am a student of XXth Century History and Russian Language & Civilization, my library tends to skew toward books on politics, philosophy, and the like. I also have particular interests in the Vietnam War and Eastern Europe of the Soviet Period.

I actually have a great many more books to add to my library, but until I can move to a place where I can have them all readily at hand they will have to remain in storage and uncatalogued.

LocationMadison, WI

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Member sinceApr 17, 2007

Currently readingRichard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black