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1 Fri January 20 2012 - 19:28:01 Fullname: Elizabeth Gill Email: busterhoudini@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Berkeley,California Comments: Hi there again! Would you please consider writing one about the Hayward Fault? Kudos to you! Thanks again.Elizabeth 2 Fri January 20 2012 - 19:12:05 Fullname: Elizabeth Gill Email: busterhoudini@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Berkeley, California Comments: I just finished posting a favorable review of your book "California Fault" on Powells Books website.Thank you so much for writing this interesting and enlightening book.Bty--I think all Californians should read it! Elizabeth 3 Thu October 27 2011 - 19:51:00 Fullname: dennis enright Email: dennis@krystalcjd.com Where are your from?: warrensburg n.y. Comments: Loved your RFK Book....Stunningly Brilliant Did you know RFK well???Do you write for anything anymore 4 Wed August 31 2011 - 02:00:46 Fullname: Craig Buxton Email: cpbuxton@comcast.net Where are your from?: Today - San Francisco Comments: My mother-in-law just sent me a copy of an article about Tuaregs in the seminal National Geographic Society magazine. My family and friends have come to appreciate a deep fondness I cherish for these people. These sentiments were well tendered in the book the Last Caravan, a story launched when a very ambitious and sincere author named Thurston Clarke appeared at my doorstep in Niamey, Niger. His journey with a student of mine, guided him in unveiling the challenges facing Tuaregs. Thurston's story has given my friends and family an appreciation for these people. Thank you Thurston. Your writing since those precious days is a testimony to the passion for life and people you showed us in Niger way back then. 5 Fri July 22 2011 - 02:25:37 Fullname: Dan waller Email: Da@secorewaller.com Where are your from?: Dallas, texas Comments: I was 16 years old in 1968. 13 in 1963. I and my son--- 22---have read your books about jfk and rfk. Each was inspiring in their on way. "ask now" was particularlly enjoyable. We took note of the fact that jfk frequently jotted down notes on whatever paper was available----envelopes noted in younbook. We own an envelope---5 x 8---that is written in jfk's hand----- "as of the time of this writing I am just finishing up my inaugural---will call when done--- Jack". No date, nor time. But unquestionablly jfk's handwriting. Thanks for keeping my son and I involved in history. 6 Thu July 14 2011 - 14:04:45 Fullname: GARY MCMAHON Email: garymcm@hotmail.com Where are your from?: ENGLAND Comments: Yes indeed: THE LAST CAMPAIGN is as superb as ASK NOT. I will carry on reading this fellow as a priority. You can tell a first-rate writer who is gifted enough to pull away from the pack when he doesn't let rhetoric get in the way of the truth. THE LAST CAMPAIGN has a beautiful elegaic feel to the prose but the rhetoric defers to home-truths when they come up. Lesser writers and historians, even good ones, leave out unaccommodating facts because tbey can't afford to dilute or distract from the tone it takes all their concentration to build. But Thurston Clarke has the confidence to trust his rhetoric will find a way to work with truth, and it does, too, fluently, every time. So you get this edgy dynamic of pragmatic idealism, pushing the outside of the envelope, taking on reality first and only then passing the details over to history. No doubt about it now: this is one hell of a gifted writer. You'll remember where you were when you first read THE LAST CAMPAIGN. 7 Thu July 07 2011 - 16:29:22 Fullname: GARY MCMAHON Email: garymcm@hotmail.com Where are your from?: ENGLAND Comments: Just read ASK NOT as part of extensive research for my next feature. Well what a fine writer: Thurston Clarke evokes not only the spirit of the times but the exact moment, right down to a snowflake on inauguration day. Makes the research easier when the writing is this good. And a sign of a good researcher is that ASK NOT finds many telling anecdotes and witty ironies along the way. I'll check out Thurston's RFK book on the strength of ASK NOT - and also, as side reading, the Califronia Fault book. Hurrah! 8 Tue March 29 2011 - 14:47:29 Fullname: Paul Lee Email: beistorage17@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Highland Park, Michigan Comments: Dear Mr. Clarke, I wrote a scholarly request to you at the email address given on your site, but it bounced back -- twice -- because, according to the email notices, your account is over quota. Is there some other way that you might be reached? Thank you. 9 Tue January 11 2011 - 07:06:18 Fullname: Nathan Hollis Email: niftinfiftin@gmail.com Where are your from?: Nelson, New Zealand Comments: I just finished reading 'Searching for Crusoe', and I have to say, it was the best book I've read in years! Very inspiring, and great writing. Keep it up 10 Thu November 11 2010 - 03:31:53 Fullname: phoebe clarke Email: phoebe.s.clarke@gmail.com Where are your from?: your house Comments: hi dad!!! 1 2 3
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