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Patrick Ashe

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Winston-Salem, The United States
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August 2020


Conveying deeper thoughts and honest feelings via engaging stories and lyricism is more important to me than following genres or trends. My main literary inspirations are Leonard Cohen, Tim O'Brien, and Cormac McCarthy. In the rock world, it's Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. I tend toward their themes and styles, albeit as an elder millennial. My books have unifying themes around existentialism, the supernatural, grief, music, economic populism, subverting sociopolitical paradigms, and opposing authoritarianism. I've long worked as a data analyst in nonprofits, and the curious yet unenviable nature of making a difference by evidence cuts across my books. ...more

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The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
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This was a fast paced, compelling historical fantasy.

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“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
W.H. Auden
1938
“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Typical Tragedies by Patrick  Ashe
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Yes, it's a zombie book. It has action. But as with its predecessor, that's not the point. If you like your feel-good, comfortable genre fiction, it's probably not for you.

You know how certain sci-fi action series like Alien, Terminator, Robocop, and
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More of Patrick's books…
“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
Bill Vaughan

Aldous Huxley
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Ludwig van Beethoven
“There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!”
Ludwig van Beethoven

André Gide
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

Susan Sontag
“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
Susan Sontag




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