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  1. 04-14-2015, 04:21 PM #1
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    UB5 Authors' Thread

    I want to remind everyone that Pat has a stellar non-fiction history of Utah football. My parents bought it for me a few years back and I've loved it and written about it on these boards in the past.

    Also, I'd love to meet as many of you as possible at the event for my novel LOGOS. (It's a novel, i.e., fiction.) Read some of the reviews of it on Amazon, but a great place to get it with my John Henry would be this Saturday at 2 at my old childhood haunt Wellers!


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    Quote Originally Posted by SeattleUte View Post
    I want to remind everyone that Pat has a stellar non-fiction history of Utah football history. My parents bought it for me a few years back and I've loved it and written about it on these boards in the past.

    Also, I'd love to meet as many of you as possible at the event for my novel LOGOS. (It's a novel, i.e., fiction.) Read some of the reviews of it on Amazon, but a great place to get it with my John Henry would be this Saturday at 2 at my old childhood haunt Wellers!


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    Good to see we're adding to those who have a title in the Library of Congress. Although I'm unable to attend your event, I'm sure it and your book will be received with enthusiasm.

    (BTW, you're wanting to offer your John Hancock, not John Henry.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoCalPat View Post
    Good to see we're adding to those who have a title in the Library of Congress. Although I'm unable to attend your event, I'm sure it and your book will be received with enthusiasm.

    (BTW, you're wanting to offer your John Hancock, not John Henry.)
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/John_Henry
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    Quote Originally Posted by SeattleUte View Post
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/John_Henry
    Was not aware of that. To me, John Henry is a venerable old thoroughbred from the early 80s.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SeattleUte View Post
    I want to remind everyone that Pat has a stellar non-fiction history of Utah football. My parents bought it for me a few years back and I've loved it and written about it on these boards in the past.

    Also, I'd love to meet as many of you as possible at the event for my novel LOGOS. (It's a novel, i.e., fiction.) Read some of the reviews of it on Amazon, but a great place to get it with my John Henry would be this Saturday at 2 at my old childhood haunt Wellers!


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    Dude, the legend SeattleUte has written a novel? This is fantastic news. This news is the most fantastic I've received since I got confirmation that Luka Drca went back to Europe.

    I'm occupied on Saturday encouraging a group of totally awesome, awkward teenagers to perform the Music Man with all the heart and soul they can muster, but if I can break away you bet your sweet bippy I'm gonna make my way to the Wellers, buy one of these things, and have the author sign his name in hot wax across my hairy chest.

    SU, I'm just finishing up The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, so I could use something righteous and hopeful. Based on the description, LOGOS is that thing, verdad?

    For reals, this is cool as heck. You've gone from long-winded lawyer to bloviating Internet troll to legitimate author. Absolutely fantastic, dude. Congrats.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SeattleUte View Post
    I want to remind everyone that Pat has a stellar non-fiction history of Utah football. My parents bought it for me a few years back and I've loved it and written about it on these boards in the past.

    Also, I'd love to meet as many of you as possible at the event for my novel LOGOS. (It's a novel, i.e., fiction.) Read some of the reviews of it on Amazon, but a great place to get it with my John Henry would be this Saturday at 2 at my old childhood haunt Wellers!


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    And Pat's book is a winner. The UB5 ratio of authors to regular posters has got to lead all Internet message boards devoted to University of Utah sports. Easily top 5, anyway.
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    My autobiography won't come out for a while because so much of the underlying material is still being, well, created. But it'll be a masterpiece when it does come out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Senioritis View Post
    Dude, the legend SeattleUte has written a novel? This is fantastic news. This news is the most fantastic I've received since I got confirmation that Luka Drca went back to Europe.

    I'm occupied on Saturday encouraging a group of totally awesome, awkward teenagers to perform the Music Man with all the heart and soul they can muster, but if I can break away you bet your sweet bippy I'm gonna make my way to the Wellers, buy one of these things, and have the author sign his name in hot wax across my hairy chest.

    SU, I'm just finishing up The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, so I could use something righteous and hopeful. Based on the description, LOGOS is that thing, verdad?

    For reals, this is cool as heck. You've gone from long-winded lawyer to bloviating Internet troll to legitimate author. Absolutely fantastic, dude. Congrats.
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    The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

    --Richard Dawkins

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    Quote Originally Posted by Senioritis View Post
    And Pat's book is a winner. The UB5 ratio of authors to regular posters has got to lead all Internet message boards devoted to University of Utah sports. Easily top 5, anyway.
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    --Albert Einstein

    The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

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    This one is truly special.

    http://www.utahhumanities.org/index....ook-award.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by SeattleUte View Post
    This one is truly special.

    http://www.utahhumanities.org/index....ook-award.html


    Congratulations, sir. Many of us toy with the idea of writing a book but only a few, like you, actually do it.

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    Terrific! I need to read it. I've put it on my Christmas wants list.
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    Congrats SU, quite the honor.


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    Congratulations SU. That is really terrific. I read logos a year ago last spring when it came out, and met SU at an author's reading at Sam Weller's. I really enjoyed the book, more than I thought I would. It has a fascinating take on perhaps the most important period in Biblical history, NSU recommended some other historical books about that periodthat I enjoyed. It was also a lot of fun to read as a novel.
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    Thanks, guys.
    One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

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    Our very own Dan Brown!

    Congrats SU, well done!
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    Congratulations -- I just got it on my Kindle
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    Congratulations. That is quite an honor.
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