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Grifters
« on: March 23, 2020, 10:24:32 PM »
Just curious if Av or Shakespeare or anyone has read this book yet?

Thinking about getting it but need to finish others first.


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Re: Grifters
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2020, 07:15:49 AM »
Just curious if Av or Shakespeare or anyone has read this book yet?

Thinking about getting it but need to finish others first.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385529961/ref=nodl_?tag=duckduckgo-iphone-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

No, I have not read Griftopia. The various reviews have piqued my interest though.

There is another book also published some 15 or so years ago that has some interesting passages. But I need to dig in the cob webs of my grey matter.

For what it is worth I remember watching long ago when it first came out, Sex, Lies and Videotape and thinking this guy Soderburg was going to make interesting films. (Also I thought Andie MacDowell was a hottie.) Anyways a while back he made Contagion, well worth watching.
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Re: Grifters
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2020, 03:30:02 PM »
This is rather creepy! Did Dean Koontz have a crystal ball or what? This book was written in 1981.  http://ruadventures.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=28644.0;attach=60882;image
This is the book I recall reading. D. Koontz published the book using a pen name.
“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” T.S. Eliot