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Describe myself...lets see. I am a male, 32 years old, at the time of this description, I love to read, have ever since I was a small boy, and find the company of books like the company of old friends most of the time. I read perhaps thirty to forty books every year, as time permits, and have every book I have ever purchased, as I cannot conceive of ever parting with them. I am a part time acto… Read moreDescribe myself...lets see. I am a male, 32 years old, at the time of this description, I love to read, have ever since I was a small boy, and find the company of books like the company of old friends most of the time. I read perhaps thirty to forty books every year, as time permits, and have every book I have ever purchased, as I cannot conceive of ever parting with them.
I am a part time actor and singer, and indulge in musicals and non-musicals on a community theater level, most recently playing Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace. I am fascinated by Greek history and Mythology, and have started writing a fictional account of one of my favorite myths.
Ok, what else, without making this sound like a chat room profile.....I love funny people, have done stand up comedy locally, like to travel, like to learn, direct theater shows as well as participating in them, and have developed quite a liking for writing book reviews on Amazon, as a way to share my thoughts on the books I read with others.
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While exploring a theme that is a soap-opera staple, the 'evil twin' scenario that introduces two beings who are so alike one another in appearance that they can conceivably switch places undetected, it is a rare author who can give it an original spin, such as Daphne Du Maurier has done, with a novel written 50 years ago. Du Maurier is easily becoming one of my favorite authors, with her novels of brooding sentiment and sense of foreboding. Her characters here are no less haunted than those of Rebecca, which is, thus far, my favorite of her works, but are haunted in a much more tangible sense. John, the protagonist, encounters his 'twin' on a chance meeting in France. Jean, the… Read more
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